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Weekend Drinking Plans
Saturday, 2005 March 12 - 1:08 am
I have a house guest this weekend, so blogging may be intermittent.

Crouching Hamster is visiting this weekend.

In preparation, I went to the liquor store to pick up some booze. That's not to say I wouldn't have bought booze anyway, but it's nice to have an excuse for it.

In North Carolina, a liquor store is sometimes called a "package" store. That is a distressing choice of terminology; it brings to mind Speedo bathing suits and the like. Ewww. Fortunately, the gruff clerks at the package store do not wear Speedos.

There have been times when I've filled up an entire shopping cart full of liquor. It was always fun to take my cart with its twenty bottles of booze, and then get in line behind the old man with his one PATHETIC little pint of schnapps. "You think YOU'RE a drinker? Lightweight." Okay, I never said it. But I gave the old man a smug expression like I was thinking it.

But really, it wasn't all for me; I'm not that much of a drunk. No, this was back in the days when I would have big parties and everyone would come over to drink, because no one was pregnant or breast-feeding or otherwise responsible. Nowadays nobody seems to value drunkenness. Sigh.

Anyway, today I went to the Grey Goose section as I usually do, and they were out of the normal-sized (750ml) bottles. They only had the GIANT 1.75-liter bottles. I said to the shopkeeper, "Geez, this makes me feel like an alcoholic." The shopkeeper's reply was: "(Grunt)."

To illustrate just how large this bottle is, I took a picture of myself standing with it:



It will take me at least a week to finish this.
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Comment #1 from LisaV (Guest)
2005 Mar 14 - 9:03 pm : #
Add a twist, I bet it will only take 5 days.
Comment #2 from Nicholas (Guest)
2005 Mar 15 - 10:13 am : #
Tell us when that bottle gets empty. How do you drink it? straight up? Screwdriver? Vodka tonic?

We only can afford to drink the cheap shit, Smirnoff.
Comment #3 from Ken (realkato)
2005 Mar 15 - 6:12 pm : #
Grey Goose was meant to be drunk in bone-dry martini form: shaken thoroughly with ice, and poured into a chilled glass with no vermouth. And, as Lisa suggested, garnish with a lemon twist. GG is silky smooth; there's none of that burning astringent sensation that you get with some other kinds of vodka.
Comment #4 from Nicholas (Guest)
2005 Mar 16 - 8:21 am : #
I can't drink straight liquor, no matter how smooth. So usually vodka is put in Bloody Mary's and Tom Collins. Sometimes a vodka tonic.

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