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walkitoutR. and I went to El Huipil in Acton for lunch. I wore my Husky jacket from the 2014 visit to Seattle. On the way in, someone said, “Go Huskies” to me, and we chatted. He was class of ‘92 in ceramic engineering, and went on to get his other degrees elsewhere and then work on transparent ceramics (which is not glass). Kind of cool, altho I can imagine that his job might make it a little tricky socially. It occurs to me, very, very belatedly, that my habit of never wearing anything with a logo, that in recent years I have finally broken myself of (mostly) has made a lot of random social interaction that people who DO wear logo stuff get to have. Every time I wear something that has a logo (Disney, UW, Mt Rainier, etc.), people have started conversations with me based on what I was wearing, and it is always very pleasant.
I had the mole at El Huipil. It is really good.
R. and I went for a walk after, the 3 mile loop. M. and I had previously attempted the 1 mile loop, but Tuttle was iced over pretty bad so we gave up. I wore my ice bugs for the long loop, and I’m glad I did. The downhill from West Acton was sheet ice.
I was reminded by High Priestess R. last night of my earlier plan to make microdrinks using teaspoons or possibly tablespoons instead of ounces / jiggers / shots. I decided to merge that previous endeavor with the current new drink a month for the year plan, to experiment with a Pink or Rosy colored drink. I had already decided that I wasn’t going to do a month of Cosmos, so cranberry juice was mostly out. But I was perfectly happy using Cherry Heering or Creme de Cassis. The previous night’s experiment had been overwhelmed by the (really tasty, really smoky) mezcal I used, so I was switching to vodka for tonight. But I had a bunch of different proportions to try out; the tiny portions let me do that without getting completely wasted, or wasting a bunch of alcohol.
1 ounce vodka (I was using grey goose because that’s what we had)
1 ounce cherry herring
.5 ounce triple sec (Cointreau)
.5 ounce Creme de Cassis
If you stop here, you have Adult Cough Syrup, if you are into that sort of thing. But I added a generous splash of chocolate bitters, so it isn’t Adult Cough Syrup any more but a dark rose and super tasty, with a lot of complexity for a vodka drink.
Equal parts vodka, cherry herring and Cointreau, with the chocolate bitters, is also pretty tasty, altho a meaningfully different drink.
I also read a large chunk of _PDT_. If I had never been to Less Than Greater Than, I would be sooooo enchanted by the idea of going to a hot dog restaurant, stepping through a phone booth and winding up in a Cool Bar. But having been to Less Than Greater Than, entering through an ice cream shop is actually even cooler, so the impact is thus reduced. No slam at anyone here — <> has managed to improve on a super cool idea.
In other drinking: R. opened a can of Lasercat from Medusa. That is a seriously odd IPA. Not _bad_. Just weird.
I had the mole at El Huipil. It is really good.
R. and I went for a walk after, the 3 mile loop. M. and I had previously attempted the 1 mile loop, but Tuttle was iced over pretty bad so we gave up. I wore my ice bugs for the long loop, and I’m glad I did. The downhill from West Acton was sheet ice.
I was reminded by High Priestess R. last night of my earlier plan to make microdrinks using teaspoons or possibly tablespoons instead of ounces / jiggers / shots. I decided to merge that previous endeavor with the current new drink a month for the year plan, to experiment with a Pink or Rosy colored drink. I had already decided that I wasn’t going to do a month of Cosmos, so cranberry juice was mostly out. But I was perfectly happy using Cherry Heering or Creme de Cassis. The previous night’s experiment had been overwhelmed by the (really tasty, really smoky) mezcal I used, so I was switching to vodka for tonight. But I had a bunch of different proportions to try out; the tiny portions let me do that without getting completely wasted, or wasting a bunch of alcohol.
1 ounce vodka (I was using grey goose because that’s what we had)
1 ounce cherry herring
.5 ounce triple sec (Cointreau)
.5 ounce Creme de Cassis
If you stop here, you have Adult Cough Syrup, if you are into that sort of thing. But I added a generous splash of chocolate bitters, so it isn’t Adult Cough Syrup any more but a dark rose and super tasty, with a lot of complexity for a vodka drink.
Equal parts vodka, cherry herring and Cointreau, with the chocolate bitters, is also pretty tasty, altho a meaningfully different drink.
I also read a large chunk of _PDT_. If I had never been to Less Than Greater Than, I would be sooooo enchanted by the idea of going to a hot dog restaurant, stepping through a phone booth and winding up in a Cool Bar. But having been to Less Than Greater Than, entering through an ice cream shop is actually even cooler, so the impact is thus reduced. No slam at anyone here — <> has managed to improve on a super cool idea.
In other drinking: R. opened a can of Lasercat from Medusa. That is a seriously odd IPA. Not _bad_. Just weird.