So...how is the Lounge this fine evening?

[TK421]

I'm sitting here polishing off a bottle of Sutter Home Zinfandel..getting a buzz going on here

Are you crazy kids behaving yourselves? :beer:

[rug]

1. Why does this post remind me of Fiona Apple?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLWTtlMwo4

[TK421]

3. I don't know, but I guess now I have to watch this video to find out!

[TK421]

12. Right...I've watched the video and have no idea why you thought of that

but, I'm not complaining

[rug]

46. Watch it again. By now it should make sense.

[Chan790]

2. No, I'm not behaving.

I just had a pretty good day. Now I'm basking in the glory that is me.

I win! I rule! I am joyful!!

[TK421]

4. You sound like a man with a purpose....

[Chan790]

18. Yeah, but I can't talk about it.

You know, second rule of Fight Club and all that.

[TK421]

23. If you walk out of Fight Club looking like shit, at least have something to brag about

[Kali]

5. DUCK!

quack

[TK421]

8. Now that is exactly what I was talking about...you've summed it up quite nicely!

[stuntcat]

6. I hab a code :(((

:(

But I'm listening to my new Leonard Cohen cd :)

[TK421]

9. I hobe your code gez bedder soon...I'm long overoo for un yself

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. I am having a wonderful evening. Just got through IMing with my Honey Bear and I am off

work tomorrow. I do need to run to the grocery store because I have other things to do tomorrow.

[TK421]

10. get thyself to the grocery store...get good things to eat, then n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. always, good things to eat...wouldn't have it any other way

:9

[taterguy]

13. Burp

Er, doing quite nicely thank you.

[TK421]

14. Beer for you then, is it? I would, but that isn't free, like this bottle of cheap wine

but I make do

[taterguy]

15. Not beer, chili

Beer and I don't get along.

[TK421]

16. Well I'm sorry to hear that...I hope you enjoy your chili

with beans, I hope

[taterguy]

17. How can you make chili with no beans?

[TK421]

21. I've seen a thread somewhere here a while back...someone said real

chili didn't have beans in it

Fucked-up, yes..I know

[Fleshdancer]

28. it's true

I personally don't care if chili has beans or not, but if you talk to a chili purist (especially in TX), they'll tell you that real chili doesn't have beans.

:shrug:

[TK421]

30. Oh...that wasn't you, was it? I remember reading this and thinking to myself

what the hell? Then, I remember its not a big deal for those who don't care for beans...


or what beans do to you after the chili....

[Fleshdancer]

37. nope, not me...

my mom loves to enter chili cooking contests so I've met some interesting chili makers over the years.

[Shell Beau]

33. Liars they are!!!! REAL chili HAS BEANS.

Now, hotdog chili has no beans. Trust me. I am a chili expert. ;)

[TK421]

26. Actually...let me correct that- I think that it was a matter of preference with the

person who wrote that, not to say that anyone who ate chili WITH beans were mutants

Sorry, but I've been looking for that thread but can't find it!

[Fleshdancer]

19. so far so good

It's unusually cool in Austin tonight and I'm enjoying every second of it.

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[flvegan]

24. Fantastic!

[TK421]

25. are you sure?

[flvegan]

31. Pretty sure, yeah.

[TK421]

36. Fantastic! sounded pretty damn certain, my bad

you'll have to forgive this damned zinfandel....

I have to hit the hay soon

[JackBeck]

52. It's as if Christmas came early this year.

Praise Jeebus.

[flvegan]

53. No coal in your stocking either?

Win-win.

[blue_roses_lib]

27. PEACHY - KEEN.

:sarcasm:

[TK421]

29. So, I guess it's not a very good day, huh?

yeah...pretty much the same picture over here :(

hence this cheap bottle of wine I'm consuming

[blue_roses_lib]

51. I'll join you in spirit with that cheap wine

Got some sort of fruity wild vines style stuff.

[Lyric]

32. Better now than before.

Had minor surgery today. It was painful, but necessary. It hurts now, but I know I'll feel a thousand times better later on, so I'm just laying here in bed, bandaged up and trying to be patient.

[Shell Beau]

34. Feel better please!!

:pals:

[Lyric]

35. I'm hoping I will, Shellybean.

:hug:

In the meantime, I have Norco to ease the transition, lol.

[Danger Mouse]

40. Haven't talked to you much lately. Hope you're doing okay.

:hug:

[TK421]

38. I think I'm going to switch to Margaritas now....if I don't respond, then

I passed out

[petronius]

39. I was going to mock your choice of plonk, but then I looked over and realized that

I'm 50% of the way through a bottle of Sylvester merlot. So all I can say is :toast:

[TK421]

41. I guess Sylvester is bottom-shelf? this stuff is just free

I love a good merlot...you ever have Blackstone? Not very expensive, but damn good!

[petronius]

44. Pretty bottom shelf ($4.50 or so, even at Albertson's!) but really quite drinkable

Blackstone rings a bell - in a positive way - but it's been a while. It's pretty amazing to me how many good wines are in that <$10 (or even <$6) window; I can taste the difference when I do go up the scale, but it rarely seems necessary to. (Usually when I buy a more expensive wine it's to avoid disappointing a snobbier associate...) :)

[TK421]

45. oh..sorry, meant to reply there-yeah, Blackstone runs about $13.00

and when I worked in a liquor store, that is what I recommended to anyone looking for an easy-drinking merlot

[petronius]

48. Also a totally good price. My go-to for a middle range merlot is Chumeia

Not well known (I don't think anyway, not out of the area) so it seems exotic, totally affordable, and really really good...

[Initech]

42. I'm nursing the hangover from last night's Great American Beer Festival.

It was so much fun - drank lots of good beer, tried some new ones (including one called "TPS Report"), and met some new people. All in all great weekend.

[TK421]

43. There is seriously a beer called TPS Report? I MUST try it!

but how was that?

[Initech]

47. Here's a rating for that:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/trinity-tps-report-ale/110928/

Personally I thought it was OK - a bit too citrusy for my tastes.

[Iggo]

49. Well.

[TK421]

50. Yes...I agree with what you said earlier