Nora if you are serious about the brewpub, I can hook you up with the Freret St. Festival organizers - small business owners group, basically, and some of my favorite people.

I am totally serious, and will definitely come back to you about that once it is more certain.

And I'll hook you up with the folks who run the Alchemist, including my bro (because I figure it's going to be good to hear the perspective of the person who provides the food that goes with the beer). They built it from the ground up, and were making a profit in under a year, which I'm given to understand is really REALLY impressive in the restaurant world.

I'll seriously kill my family.

I have 2 deadlines for tomorrow, and every 2-20 minutes someone will need me or my presence to solve something.

And I haven't had dinner yet, and it's 21:00.

Nora, you might also want to check in with these guys:

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Well, once we figure out how much to ask for it.

This would probably be the big thing. That, and I'm on my current lease until next January (and despite all the craziness of my landlord, he's an OK guy and I wouldn't want to break the lease on him).

I don't want to get any hopes up (yours or mine) that this is feasible, but we'll talk about this soon.

Yay Miracleborns condo renting!

{{Pix}} that sounds rough for everyone involved.

Happy birthday Raq!

~ma to the ~ma-needful!

And hooray for better living arrangements!

I'm weirdly happy about this surgery. Yay, my shoulder will stop hurting, which I'd been thinking was just my body's 49th birthday present to itself, plus it's not something that can be blamed on anything I did, didn't do, should have known better about. There's no moral ambiguity to a growth on a bone.

Woo hoo Miracleborns!

Job~ma for ya, Pix.

Surgery~ma, Connie.

Nora, I am so FREAKING EXCITED.

Shir, I like your email. If I got that email, I'd want to meet up with that person.

were making a profit in under a year, which I'm given to understand is really REALLY impressive in the restaurant world.

That is incredibly impressive, yes. Most places are looking at 3-5 years before profit. Smart bro!

That is incredibly impressive, yes.

Yes, I am in awe.

Man, I am totally in the "keep saying it will happen and then eventually IT WILL HAPPEN" mode.

I think I'm just super excited because, for the first time, things just make sense with this plan.

Have you ever kept up an online chat with a person and found yourself wondering why the hell you did it? Because I totally get the ones where you just click all over the place, even though I haven't actually had one in years. I get why I *started* this one, cause this guy has the kind of name that makes my Anglophilic heart beat faster, and we have some little random shit in common, but I'm pretty convinced he thinks I am a babbling moron. Our communication really isn't that good. Are we just that bored, simultaneously, or what?