RednScarlet

Sorry about not writing out that you use Angostura bitters, was distracted.

Agree that a good single malt is a pleasure.

My favorite cocktail for the last 30 years is, hands down, an Old Fashioned.

How I do it:

Highball glass

1 sugar cube ( unbleached cane sugar if no cubes around)

3 dashes of bitters on top of the cube

small amount of bourbon and 'muddle' ( back of a teaspoon to smash the cube up)

After sugar is completely dissolved, add ice, and bourbon to almost the top of the glass.

Might add orange slice or cherry if they are around.

Bourbon choice now is Maker's Mark.

I like to kick back wearing my narrow tie, watching reruns of the old black and white "Outer Limits".

(Thanks Netflix)

I bought my mother an E-reader for x-mas powered by android. It's alright, but it is definitely less responsive and far slower than my girlfriend's HTC phone, because they both use the same software.

I also received an ereader with the android OS for Christmas, and made some easy tweaks.

Try downloading an android app for Opera Mini as the browser. Really improved the speed.

Looking around the net you can find some good help on how to add apps you might want.

I just finished loading Kindle,BN, Overdrive Media for reading.

Pandora,Lastfm and youtube for music.

Now I'm pretty happy with the unit.

Shoot me a PM and I'll pass on what I've found out.

Just found out my favorite Pub here in Nashville is closing.

Best Scottish Eggs this side of the 'Pond'.

Def played there a lot.

What to do if your kid won't behave down here in SEC country...?

Heck, that would scare me too!

Early morning music.

'Give me another reason to get out of bed'

The Original...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R9HhYT3fuM

The one Good thing to come out of all this is that my co-workers want to know 'Who is this Watson Guy'?

The Vanderbilt fans I know from the Pub say " yea, ain't gonna change anything, We'll still be Vandy"!

" A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse".

Knew when I clicked on the link that it would make me feel old.

Number one thing for me was the Cold War.

Dad was in the Navy and we always seemed to be on some dock watching his ship leave.

Barbed wire around the base where we lived.

'Duck and Cover...'

As paranoid as the country was, it's amazing that I have any liberal thoughts at all now.

But hey, I could still listen to a World Series DAY game on my transistor radio back then!

1952

One of my favorites by the newest Kennedy Center Honor recipient.

Caught me in a weak moment; joined in.

You realize that the God's smile upon those who have very small...post count!

Just got home from another night shift; this song rambling in my head all night.

Greetings from Music City, 3 hours into my shift at work and hoping my boys save me a beer or two.

My thoughts are with the troops serving away from home. Always.

Have a safe one.

Wow. That little playing time?

Maybe it just seems like the full 60 minutes to me when I'm at the game.

Down time is spent talking to those around us about the team's play.

Or, maybe going for another beer and shelled peanuts.

Still, it's a nice way to spend my Sundays.

( Oh Yea, GO TITANS )

Lots of AF people so far.

20 year guy and I also was Civil Engineering.

Worst assignment: Shemya AFB, AK 1973-1974

Best assignment: 819th REDHORSE RAF Wethersfield, UK 1987-1990

"It wasn't ME 1st Sergent, I was TDY at the time..."

Before I went back to college, I worked over nights at a plant in Crete. We got off at 5:30 or 6, and once a week my co-workers and I would head down to a bar. In Crete these places were also the diners. I would laugh as we would walk in, order breakfast and beers/shots, all the while a Saline county judge would be sitting across from us eating pancakes and drinking coffee, we would joke with him about seeing him in a couple of hours etc. Man we would have a ton of fun. I found the worst to be going out on Friday night and getting tired at 12pm. People would always say "You work nights how can you be tired", I would try to explain its like drinking at 10am for them.

 

I like that your post was made at 3:52am....

We did the same thing in the semi-small Nebraska town I worked in.

Town had one cab and it was kept real busy on those mornings.

Really miss the plant and Nebraska for that matter.

One bright spot will be this weekend; Wife and I will be cheering Big Red on from the Frayed Knot here in Nashville.

Great watch site for all us displaced Huskers.

GBR !

Shift workers are a weird bunch.

We never get enough sleep, eat strange stuff at strange hours and basically are some moody SOBs.

For the last 15 years I've worked a 12 hour shift ( half the month 8 am to 8 pm, then switch to 8 pm to 8 am for the last half of the month ).

After we moved, I swore I'd never work shift again. That lasted 6 months. Just couldn't handle working a normal day shift. New job is back to rotating 8 hour shifts and I love it.

I work alone and YES, I do talk to myself and answer.

Things I have found out after 35 years of different types of shift work:

- 4 hours is the max I can sleep.

- I can sleep anytime, any place, any noise level and in any position (including vertical).

- Caffeine has no affect on me.

- What I can eat during daylight hours, will make me puke on night shift.

- The internet was invented for shift workers.

- You can make a game out of everything you do.

- Most people do not know the meaning of BORED.

- That beer you have at 8 in morning, as you watch your neighbors head to work, is the best beer ever!

Anyone else out there doing 'shifts'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u80u6nJ2g8

Found this album hiding in my collection; flood of memories.

Some Friday music...

Noticed in the last couple of weeks, a lot of teachers coming into the place I work getting ready for the upcoming school year.

All are excited at the opening of their schools and can't wait to get in the classroom.

Their carts are full of supplies to make learning a little bit easier for students.

I've cut countless 12" x 12" squares of melamine fiberboard for dry erase boards, wood for computer desks, etc.

Some, if not all, of this is coming out of their pockets.

Just wanted to say thanks to those who do that little bit extra.