The Bar

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:06 pm

Death Valley seems like it could be an interesting place to explore. But I'll bet it starts to seem like your surrounded by a whole lot of nothing if your stationed there very long.

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:07 pm

Dominate, conquer, whatever....I *am* all dressed up a cowgirl... bullwhip included...

i'd love ta dance, flyboy!! two-step?? i got Black Crows on...

The grog is just right!! I cheat and make it with cheap red wine and spice packets from the import store...yum!

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:26 pm

could I have the next dance??? without the whip?

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:29 pm

I'm listening to a little West Texas music, Robert Earl Keene, Los Lonely Boys, James McMurtry. I wish I could fly all the time, but I can only volunteer for the air ambulance on my days off. Helps me get perspective for when they come to me and get my patients. Flew from Pahrump to Las Vegas twice in 5 hours, first flight right into the rising sun, awesome. Have three more days off. ZG, yes it seems like a whole lot of nothing to some, city folks mostly, but I chose this profession because of where I get to live and what I get to do. Tish, wadda ya think of that pic? Another Patron' for the green and gray?

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:30 pm

Oh gee, gotta go I'll be back

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:33 pm

okay, okay...one more dance then i'm out...sleepy time...

nice pic, HT! cool suit! i miss the desert.

night, ZG!

i'll see y'all on the flip side!

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:49 pm

I was just listening to some tunes and thought I would drop in the bar to say hi. Nothing to drink for me, I am headed off to bed. Night.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:41 am

And on that note, and as usual, here I am to open the bar and get the coffee going.

lets see....beans...water...ahhhh

Not too messed up in here. Halloween treats scattered about, but not too dusty. Good enough to eat. Guess that'll be breakfast.

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:39 am

cowboyangel wrote:could I have the next dance??? without the whip?

WIMP!

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:48 am

Good morning,
Ooh thank you for putting the coffee on Sputnik..........

Joel, do you normally get up at 4 or is it all the political excitement / anxiety you've been affected by?

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:06 am

No more active than the place is this morning I should probably keep a little momentum up and move on to other thing. Maybe I can get a little done today.......... Later

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:12 am

Zulegoona wrote:Good morning,
Ooh thank you for putting the coffee on Sputnik..........

Joel, do you normally get up at 4 or is it all the political excitement / anxiety you've been affected by?

define normally...

normal is the 80 pound boxer shaking its head to wake me up so it/she can go outside to pee...

political excitement? where? the election is pretty much the same old same old that i grew up with in Springfield, IL.

i think i have been rising early since 1967 when i had my first paper route... through the '70s as a teenager, a paper route and/or my cranky fucking step-grandfather waking us up at 7AM daily in the summer... and then 20 years of the military... so, if all that is normal... then i normally get up at 4AM or so... trust me, if i could sleep in, i would...

is it too early for beer?

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:14 am

[quote="
is it too early for beer?[/quote]

No

uBeRpLaYa · Post by **uBeRpLaYa** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:23 am

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theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:50 am

samtzu wrote:My dad was a cop... My 'little' brother (6'4", 300+lbs) is a cop, and I signed up... made the list... then didn't get called.... and then I thought about it and shivered all over for a couple of years. I couldn't enforce the laws that those guys are compelled to enforce... I hate bad law and I wouldn't want to be in that position.

Yeah, but the get to wear cool uniforms and shoot things and shit like that... and drive in fast cars with pretty lights... and the siren that goes, "Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo!!!" Fun!!!

Just shut up...

Maybe Woodrow would like to be an EMT and ambulance driver. I doubt he's big enough for the fire department.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:54 am

geekster wrote:The Captain Morgan is to wash the taste of the sardines out of my mouth. Oh, I was just thinking about what people would do if you "gifted" them something completely disgusting ... like a sardine smoothy. Would they feel an obligation to try it? Would they pass it up? What about a WONDERFUL smoothy that is just under a very thin layer of olive oil out of a sardine can. You TELL them that it is a sardine smoothy but really it is bannana, orange, strawberry, coconut or something. If they dare try it, they get a nice treat.

Not me. The smell of fish makes me nauscious. (So nawshus I can't spell apparently.)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:55 am

geekster wrote:Okay, then I retract my statement of sympathy *whoosh*

So I just watched the Osama speach with English subtitles on a ticker crawling along the bottom of the screen. I think they messed up because all it kept saying was:

Nanny-nanny boo-boo. You can't catch me.

That seems to be what it was. Although we were probably not the intended audience.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:59 am

geekster wrote: Anyway, I thought it might be a nice touch to make my make-believe Major Bigtime character to do newbie indoctinations at the gate :)

Newbie Boot Camp? Ooooooooh, I like, if I do say so myself.
"We're gonna make Burners out of you pansies! Now drop and give me 50!"

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:00 am

nipples wrote:Ummm. I smell something funny in here.

Oh! It's me!

~picks up hat catalog left by geekster~

Hmm. Says right here the hat is 100% crushable... no maybe about that!
Plus, it looks quite fine.

Quick Robin! To the crush thread!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:05 am

tisha2 wrote:Hey, Z! you are lookin' MUCH better!! had the ol' squid removed,eh?

More like morphed into another life stage. (Take it from an undersea dweller.)

regynalonglank · Post by **regynalonglank** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:48 am

Where is Regyna??

Here i am!

Romper stompers? I deny everything.

you know, the buckets with the strings, and you stand on em...and then the strings break, and you fall on your ass? i loved those...they would go so well with your head. not that i've ever seen your head, mind you, but i imagine there must be a bucket involved...i know...i do think waaaaaay too much! romper stompers for everyone!!!

so how was your all hallow's eve? didja do anything fun?

the party i went to was at my friends place up in the forest, and they cleaned out this old soda fountain and made it into a wierd bar, and when i walked in i thought for a minute that i was here, and started looking for you guys, but then i realized there was no basement, so surely this was the wrong bar...but you shoulda seen it man, it was great...

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:41 pm

it was us!! we just weren't there right then...heehee!!

so the bartendress is a little, um...under the weather today, so duties are passed off to whomever feels the urge!!

do ya feel it...do ya, do ya...huh? huh?

regynalonglank · Post by **regynalonglank** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:42 pm

well the drink du jour at that bar was the test tube baby...amaretto, tequila and cream...anyone for some early afternoon shots?

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:03 pm

Hi everyone. On a post-sugar letdown from Halloween candy. I will have black coffee and maybe a piece of jerky.

Hey, I had an idea. How about art that appeals to the sense of smell. I thought I might, one morning next year, start the day at oh, 8 am or so ... with a HUGE pile of bacon frying and camp coffee boiling in a big-assed pot. Just the thought of the neighbors downwind waking up smelling bacon and coffee ....

regynalonglank · Post by **regynalonglank** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:12 pm

yeah baby...i'm all for that! fat back poke, chitlins...heck, let's just bring the whole pig and do 'em on playa...anybody know how to carve?

regynalonglank · Post by **regynalonglank** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:03 pm

ok, bad idea!

that would really be more of a sound based artwork anyways...

screams of a dying pig?

sorry...and no, i'm not a veggie. i really thought that was funny for a minute...must have been reliving my old farm days in west virginia, the farmer down the road from us used to slaughter a pig every year...great bacon, i have to say!

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:16 pm

Years ago I lived in Eastern North Carolina for a while. One of the favorite local weekend social activities was a "pig pickin'". A whole pig would be slow roasted and pieces would be sliced off as required. Yum.

Keeping the thing alive would certainly make sure it was fresh but it does create a MOOP problem that I would not want to deal with on the playa.

Bacon would be easy in that I could fill nearly an entire cooler and have some dry ice in there to keep things chilly for a few days. I am not interested so much in having a bacon kitchen so much as creating a one-time experiance. Just have people talking about "you remember the time we woke up and could smell the bacon and coffee?" Just a little tickle of the senses, I guess. I am trying to think of anything else that might have a strong smell that carries a great distance. It doesn't have to be bacon, I am just remembering my own experiances camping and how it seemed like you could smell bacon and coffee a mile away.

I could probably do something in the evening with garlic too.

regynalonglank · Post by **regynalonglank** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:40 pm

the smell of fresh citrus would definitely get my attention out there...i think that carries, no? perhaps some fresh orange juice to go with!

and while we're at it, i have eight hens and a rooster, i could bring some fresh eggs to share...

giant skillet anyone?

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:57 pm

Eggs are kinda funny. The shells are porous so they can be contaminated by liquids that come in contact with the shells and pick up odors from things they are stored with. The safest way to bring eggs is to crack them into a plastic container like Tupperware, mix the whites and yolks together and freeze it solid and then transport in a cooler with dry ice. Okay, so we have eggs and bacon covered, all we need now is some salsa.

regynalonglank · Post by **regynalonglank** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 3:03 pm

well, aren't you the knows what to do with eggs guy! coolio...sounds like a plan.

AND i also have a garden, and gardens have lots of tomatoes at that time of year SO if i got ambitious and planted some onions and some jalepenos then we could be in the salsa bidness as well. how cool is that?