'Harm's Way'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Not all ginger beer is alcoholic, is it?
Nope. It generally is not.
Aw, Theo, sorry about Sylvia. Kinda glad she didn't die while under your care, though.
And Happy Cat.
My critters better all stay healthy, dammit! We will have a stern talk this evening, I expect.
Home-made ginger (and root) beer tends to be highly carbonated/explosive (or not at all, if the batch goes bad). My mom has many great stories of her dad's experiments with trying to make his own. Very messy, apparently.
Timelies all!
I'm sorry, Gud.
Went to the Negro League Baseball Museum and the Jazz Museum today. Very nice.
Nope. It generally is not.
Okay, that is what I thought because they sell it around here in stores that don't sell alcohol.
The instructions for making kvass include stern warnings about tying down the corks so they don't pop off during the fermentation process. And that's a small beer, I guess a little alcoholic but that's not the point of it.
Biyi is quite into the (non-alcoholic) ginger beer. Which led at one point to an intervention by her father, who was very concerned about the amount of beer she was drinking. She had to explain to him that it was not the same as regular beer.
She found him afterwards with an empty bottle and a dictionary, translating the whole thing back into Chinese to make sure.
All I know of ginger beer is that it was used in a threatening manner in one of Pratchett's Night Watch books, as a potential part in a dirty interrogation (though only as a threat, and Vimes was disgusted with himself). I have no idea what is so threatening about ginger beer.
I'm not sure if this is what Pratchett was thinking of, but I've heard of it being used by shaking it up and forcing it up the target's nose. Apparently that can get very painful.
I think I am done with working. I just need to set my voicemail to vacation and I am out of here.
VACATION!!!
She found him afterwards with an empty bottle and a dictionary, translating the whole thing back into Chinese to make sure.
Aw.
Total randomness..... One of the US decathletes at the Olympics is part of the Hogwarts Running Club that I run with, though he is a Gryffindor. Apparently, when he was introduced, he did a wand thing. And while doing his high jump, his last chance, he whispered, "expecto patronum!" So cool.
~ma for your mom, Matt.
Gud, I am sorry to hear about Thor. They give us so much love but they just can't stay.
Goodnight, Happy Cat. Goodnight Sylvia.