do I make one of the listed recipes first, or do I dive straight into trying to work out a good egg nog ice cream recipe?

I would make one of the listed recipes just to get a feel for how the alcohol+other ingredients freeze. They all sound good.

I've always thought it was "put through the wringer". I'm not sure about the w in nerve-racking, though. I'd keep it, but not with authority.

Im not sure about the w in nerve-racking, though. I'd keep it, but not with authority.

It needs a w.

Ha, I think auto-correct took it out!

I've always thought it was "put through the wringer".

Me too. "Wringer" as in clothes wringer.

K-Bug reached her current height when she was in 5th grade.

I did too!

When I was 18, a little old lady asked me if my 16 year old friend was my daughter! I assume she had bad eyesight.

The monk smiled beneficently on her and suggested to me that as her grandfather I was obviously going to be way too lenient and not properly discipline her.

I was skimming, and somehow mixed this up with Lee's post, and thought the monk said this about you and juliana!

Thanks guys. I was in Williamsburg last night, and seeing all the young, pretty people reminded me of what I missed out on.

Tom, a)fucking hipsters 2)I swear I thought you were 32--because you look that adorable and 3)coming to a point where you are happy with yourself is the best time of your life.

At 42, I'm not saying there isn't a twinge of a belief that youth is wasted on the young--but I am wiser, sassier and a lot smarter than those kids. Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill!!!!!

That's half way to eggnog anyway.

Ick. No. I'm Jamaican. We don't do it like *that*.

I see rum and raisin in there, and I've been craving a proper recipe for that for ages, so maybe I'll start there, if the raisins don't need too long a soaking.

I have teeny-tiny Avengers for my desk! [link]

I haven't opened the package yet (I'm going to take it home and show Tim, and then bring them back to work to stand next to my Teen Titans, Batman, Spider-Man, and Kang), but the red sphere in the picture has Loki in it. And I assume Iron Man isn't stuck in that Stop In The Name of Love Pose.

It needs a w

Interwebs say both, as of at least a century.

Interwebs say both, as of at least a century.

"Nerve-racking" makes me visualize actual nerves hanging on a wooden laundry drying rack.