Jesse, on the contrary, I am very interested in what a meat book guy is.

It sounds kinda gross, but I'm interested anyway.

The cocktail article made me want to make Manhattans this weekend, because I have the vague impression that I like those. I mostly drink beer, or use mixers, or have a rum & coke.

My sloth interferes with my drunkenness. It's sad.

But in a fit of spendyness last weekend, I ordered a cool cart/bar thingy to properly display my booze & mixers & such, and I'm having people over next month so I may attempt to have an actual cocktail party. I think I even have goofy umbrella-straws somewhere, which should count for something.

Oh, and this will only be of interest to msbelle and bon bon, if them, but some friend-of-a-friend tried to friend me on Facebook, and it turns out to be the meat book guy from that one party. @@

He's trying to sell you his meat book! I saw him last weekend, and our friend that tried to throw you off a balcony, but avoided talking to either.

Jesse, on the contrary, I am very interested in what a meat book guy is.

Some guy who wrote a book about meat, and spent an entire party telling people about it. At length. I would probably find it interesting, really, if the guy weren't so pushy about it.

I ordered a cool cart/bar thingy to properly display my booze & mixers & such

Do you have a link? Not that my current apartment really has anywhere to put one, but I was really looking for something for my alcohol and could find nowt good.

Decided to stave off the popcorn cravings by making some steel cut oatmeal instead. More variety. And I did up the calorie math--the popcorn is 40 calories per tbsp so 160 calories per batch, and I allow myself no more than one buttering a day, even if I have more than one batch of corn. Butter's 100 calories a tablespoon, so my cracked pepper browned butter topping is 400 calories.

A delicious 560 calories, let me tell you. Since I'm doing math, the oatmeal is 120 calories, with 100 calories from cream and 20 from strawberry jam, so 240 for this snack. Nummy.

Remington Steele was indeed very satisfying. I'd forgotten Murph!

Quantum Leap proves to be less satisfying. Does not live up to my fondness. I think I must just google and find out how the first ep ended and delete the season pass.

Okay, I just tried to watch Grey's Anatomy. What happened to it? Who are those people? Didn't I use to like some of them?

I feel the same way ita. I think I am dumping it and going back to CSI.

Uh oh - I haven't caught up with last week's GA yet, much less tonight's.

Jesse, did you know you are no longer being a scofflaw with the flying with the lighter in your pocket?

I just did. I mean, I'll watch the almost 20 minutes I recorded to see if I get any pangs at having switched TiVo over to CSI, but I doubt it. There was no care there.

But I'm grumpy tonight. I can't get my phone to connect to my laptop.

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.

Given that the name "martini" comes from the vermouth in it, I'm certainly not going to argue with you. In fact, if you said in someone's house in France that you wanted "un martini," you would get a glass of vermouth.

I think the objection was to the Vodka, not the Vermouth.

Some guy who wrote a book about meat,

But... all meat? In general? Or, like, how to cook meat? Or only beef? Was it an encyclomeatia?

ita -- it's this one, although even with shipping I found it cheaper at QVC's site. It seemed cute and small and functional. And the fact that the wine rack thingy is removable was kind of key. There were a couple of different finishes, if you're not into the natural wood.

I'll report on how easy it actually is to assemble when it gets here.