The Bar

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:59 am

Brass is gone, back to DC. Farewell and godspeed to them. May they not grace me with their presence again for awhile, til I have to go there in April, yuck. Sometimes I wonder.........

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:01 am

Yeah mon, up before the sun is the way to go, my MO most days, even on the playa, that is, if I sleep.

Hey Heli - when the peeps were chattering about the lack of sun and seasonal asshat distemper (or whatever it's called), you suggested a road trip to visit you at -232. That sounds like a fucking outstanding idea: an eplaya rendevous. Be careful what you wish for.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:01 am

gigglesnort wrote:I'm hte beer wench! Where is the bartendress?! [Beers and shots, but its not even nine yet! oh my, is this how hte day is going....]

that was *coffee* wench.....damn, haven't had enough apparently....and now, off to work I go......

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:45 am

Well... mornin' all.... So, DVD got axed for a month... go figure... and no, I don't think he's violent, I just think he doesn't have a governor on his thought process. If it comes to his head, it goes to his fingers (and keyboard)... of course, I don't have a problem with that!

Coffee, please... and Heli... which post or station, or whatever the hell you call them, are you assigned to? I haven't been in Death Valley in years, but when I was there (probably before you were born) it was one of the most spectacular things I had ever witnessed. Now, years later, it still ranks right up there...

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:03 am

Hey all.

Feeling a bit under the weather this morning. I think I'm actually just exhausted. Legs ache a bit. Maybe too much caffeine. Anyway, just a shot this morning. Whatever.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:11 am

sputnik wrote:Hey all.

Feeling a bit under the weather this morning. I think I'm actually just exhausted. Legs ache a bit. Maybe too much caffeine. Anyway, just a shot this morning. Whatever.

Maybe it was the windex.....

one shot comin up (lining up santa in the crosshairs)......

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:28 am

Thanks. I'm just going to hang back here on the couch for a while and chill.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:40 am

*GE enters half awake, finds the neverending blanket, curls up, and falls alseep*

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:48 am

[tucks blanket up over GE's shoulder then tiptoes out the door]

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:04 am

*snuggling down into the blanket, stirring a bit*

mmmmorning.

will someone put a couple of spoons in the freezer? I need to put them on my eyelids later... they're all puffy from crying last night...

don't ask...

*rolling over, breathing slowly and deeply*

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:08 am

helitack wrote:Gawd, I AM in a Monastery.

Yes you are.

the Miami Herald wrote:Brother Timothy Diener, Winemaker, Dies

Associated Press

NAPA, Calif. - Brother Timothy Diener, who helped shape the California wine industry as longtime cellarmaster for the Christian Brothers' wines and brandies, has died at age 94.

Diener died Tuesday at the Christian Brothers Mont La Salle novitiate.

Born Anthony George Diener in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1910, he worked for more than 50 years at the Mont La Salle Vineyards in the Napa Valley, retiring in 1989 when the Brothers of the Christian Schools sold their wine and brandy-making operation to the Heublein Fine Wine Group.

"He was a legend. He was the heart of the industry," prominent vinter Robert Mondavi said of Diener at his 75th anniversary as a Christian Brother last year.

The Brothers of the Christian Schools, commonly known as the De La Salle Christian Brothers - a Roman Catholic religious order dedicated to education - had run a small business making sacramental and medicinal wines since the late 19th century. The order bought the larger Napa Valley vineyards in 1930.

Diener, then a high school chemistry teacher, was assigned to be "wine chemist" at the winery in 1935. Members of the religious order are not ordained as priests.

"I guess it was because I was big and strong and young and all that," Diener told The Napa Valley Register shortly after his retirement.

Production was then no more than 10,000 gallons a year, but with the help of German immigrant Alfred Fromm, the sales and reputation of Christian Brothers wines grew. Profits went to support the order's schools and programs.

Diener was asked if he saw a conflict between making wine and belonging to a religious order. He didn't.

"I've always been aware of the danger of abuse of wine," he said in one interview. "I've always taken the attitude that everything one does should be in moderation. We should make judicious use of God's creatures and blessings.

"All I can say is that a little wine in moderation seems to have been good for me."

A Toast!! A Toast!!--and that's what all last night's talk about Mother Teresa has wrot.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:14 am

And let me line up le drink de jour.

*fishy mixes up "the cream" with water and pours ten shots. She follows by lining up a chaser of "the clear" for each one, leaving them avaliable on the bar for anyone who choses to drink them.*

I hope that doesn't get Tish down on me for violating the no baseball clause.

*fishy sneaks out*

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:22 am

*Tall, red clad stranger rushes in, takes a shot from the bar and downs it, then takes a clear, and downs it. He then tiptoes over to the blanket, bends down, and gently brushes his lips against the face of the huddled form within... "Gently, Darlin'..." he wispers... and then rushes back out the door*

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:25 am

GuinivereElise wrote:*snuggling down into the blanket, stirring a bit*

mmmmorning.

will someone put a couple of spoons in the freezer? I need to put them on my eyelids later... they're all puffy from crying last night...

don't ask...

*rolling over, breathing slowly and deeply*

pssst. i'm asking.
but you don't have to tell.

more importantly, whaddaya need? besides, of course, spoons?

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:25 am

[giggle tiptoes back in, downs a creamy shot, downs a clear, tucks the blanket back up around GE's shoulder, and tiptoes out again]

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:26 am

*putting sliced cucumber into the fridge*

Those will feel nice on the eyes later...

*smooch*

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:37 am

*barely opening her eyes*

thanks sam.

just spoons, rian. the rest will take care of itself.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 am

oh, and thanks giggle. you're all so sweet...

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:30 am

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:39 am

So Burning Man tickets go on sale in a month, the cheapest starting at $10 more than last year. There wasn't any mention of a mechanism to collect additional moneys for the Jim Mason art thing. Sales starts at noon SF time instead of midnight but I think it's on a work day,.. not that that matters if I don't have a job......

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:47 am

* strolls in, spies shots and dumps one of each into a mug of coffee.... wraps an arm round Zule and goes to Guin's sleeping, healing self. Sprinkles some playa-pixie dust over her and lays a hand on her head for a moment, breathing in her own deep sigh... rises and contemplates Buckets new picture for a bit before donning her hat and sunglasses to face a day brimming with challenges. opens tent flap, smiles over her shoulder and heads out. *

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:49 am

Kisses love have a good one see you in awhile.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:57 am

WOOHOOO!

first time in the bar this week I think! A day of repieve from the evil mountain!

first things first...
can someone link me to the juicy juicy re: DVD? I need the fat gossip now!

then, a bottle of scotch and a six pack of beer please. I got me some catchin up to do!

and most importanly, I will snuggle in with GE and get her all warm (I am a human space heater after all). It's been too long eh?

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:02 pm

Good to see you Stuart.

Jason

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:03 pm

A human space mountain heater?

No one seems to know what DVD said and to whom. (Or maybe they all do, I can't read between the lines.)

Good to see you Stuart--you've been missed.

Have the Cream and the Clear.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:03 pm

buckethead alien wrote:

THAT made me smile the first real smile of the day.

Thank you.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:04 pm

worth repeating

[quote]WOOHOOO![/quote]

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:04 pm

thanks stuart.. it has indeed been entirely too long...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:05 pm

GuinivereElise wrote:
buckethead alien wrote:
THAT made me smile the first real smile of the day.

Thank you.

It just leaves me confused. Too much scouring powder yesterday?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:07 pm

must be fishy... it's clear as day to me.