I've always been a gimlet girl.

For me, it's an excuse to drink lime juice. Gin gives me headaches, so I drinks the waaaadka.

Gimlets are the only drinks in which I like gin, though I don't know what the good gins are so I may revisit that at some point if I have new data to test. I would be fine with Rose's if it wasn't full of corn syrup.

And I like a lot of vermouth in my martinis. If I want vodka straight up then that is what I will order. 7:1 is the ratio I learned and it remains my preference. So very not dry.

Et ask: should that be "weren't" up there, last sentence first paragraph?

Canadian whiskey with a splash of water, pleaseandthankyou.

Or, if I trust the bartender, a Perfect Manhattan: [link] But on the rocks, not in a cocktail glass. Those tend to spill.

I miss my laptop so very very much.

Not nuch of a drinbker anymore but if I do, it's bourbon or tequila. No nasty gin. We hates it.

I also adhere firmly to Daisy Jane's belief that a drink made out of vodka, vermouth and either an olive or an onion may be a delightful libation but it is not, strictly speaking, a martini.

Shit. Don't even get me started on the chocolate martinis. Not a martini! Mine (back when I was allowed to have them) had the vermouth rolled around the glass, Bombay Saphire and a squirt of olive juice shaken and poured into the glass with the ice crystals on top, garnished with almond stuffed olives.

Damn. Now I want one.

I finally got my laptop back from the skeevy repair place. When did computer shit get so shady? Unlike their promises, they never called to tell me it was ready. I showed up 1 minute before closing and waited FORTY FIVE MINUTES for them to just finish up.

And then I had to pay them with my debit card because their credit card machine can't handle transactions over $100. Oh, there's something behind that.

But the Powerbook's back! And now it will play with my server! Yay! It's like a sleepover with printed circuit boards.

Citrus vodka, a splash of real lemon juice, sparkling water over ice. Garnish with lemon or lime.

Sounds yum. I don't like gin, so no martinis for me. I like the olives, though.

This conversation reminds me reminds me of my conjecture from a while back that a Crown Royal and Royal Crown Cola seems on first pass as if it ought to be a high class drink, but I doubt that it actually is.

Citrus vodka, a splash of real lemon juice, sparkling water over ice. Garnish with lemon or lime.

...sounds a lot like my drink (citron and soda with a twist). Now I'm wanting a gimlet though...

So, I could go see a lot of people tonight. I miss people, because I've been out of town. BUT, it would require me sitting through spoken word, which I am bad at and hate. And vowed after last month that I really shouldn't do it again. What to do???

go late. miss the spoken word.