Just me and my good buddy Weiser. And I drink alone.
Shit bier pryde!!
So the wife got Employee of the Month. It comes with a $500 bonus. So we are at The Whiskey once again. No camel this time. But of course a few Bulliet rye Manhattans to start. More to come…
Live it, brother!
Five double Bulliet Manhattans later we are home. I am sorry for all of you that don’t live near this place. Seriously.
Warm goat cheese and herbs with a tomato coulis.
The best Manhattan you can get outside of NYC.
The Royale burger. Wagyu beef and smoked pork belly. Bourbon onions, gruyere, arugala and a fine, vine ripened tomato and house sauce.
The wife had an elk burger. A blurry elk burger.
DAMN that looks good!!!
Yes.5
If I could eat like this every day I’d be dead already. But happy. Very happy. :)
You two know how to celebrate a bonus.
Cheers!
This weekend I completed my training, and I’m now a PADI-certified Open Water Diver.
I did my checkout dives (four dives over two days) in lovely Tobermory, ON. The cold freshwater does an excellent job of keeping wrecks somewhat intact, but holy hell it was cold. Water temperature on Saturday was 6.3 degrees centigrade. I almost bailed on the weekend; putting my face in the frigid water literally took my breath away and I freaked out a little.
Anyways, I pulled it together and finished the dives, and now I’ve checked off an item from the bucket list. I’ll be in the ABC islands on a family cruise vacation in August, and I’m planning to do my first two dives when I’m there.
Congratulations! Should be a lot warmer for those dives in August!
This shouldn’t be super interesting, but last week I drove down to DC and renewed my Dutch Passport. This was important because if I don’t renew it, and reaffirm my Dutch Citizenship, I am liable to lose my Dutch Citizenship.
As a dual citizen, the Dutch have a law that if you live abroad, and don’t renew your passport after 10 years, you lose it.
Renew your passport or citizenship? We Americans have to renew our passports too or they become invalid, but if we don’t they don’t strip us of our citizenship.
Both actually. By renewing my passport, I have reaffirmed my citizenship.
Again, this stupid rule only applies to people with Duel Citizenships. I have been living in the US for almost a decade, so I needed to get it done before I lost my Dutch Citizenship.
Thank the dumb right for that bullshit. Geert Wilders used the dual citizenship laws to try to beat up on the morrocan and turkish dutch. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
No argument there.
The Continuing Saga of the Kidney
or
Co-pay My Ass
So the Doc got the results. Inconclusive. My creatinine is still going down, at 1.3 last test.
But. He was comparing the ultrasound results from 2013 and today. Last ultrasound, no mass. New one, mass. This has him concerned. So next stop MRI with contrast and a $750 co-pay.
Otherwise he’s thrilled about the other results from the CT. Glad he’s happy. I live for that. :P
You should throw in a tip for the guy staying so positive!
You forgot to do a Roberto Duran and say “no mas!” Sorry. That was funnier in my head.
On a bad note, my wife’s 22yo nephew died today after his parents agreed to remove life support. He’d had a seizure while jet skiing, fell into the water, and floated face-down with his life jacket keeping him afloat. They estimated he went close to 30 minutes with no oxygen. Tests today showed there was no brain activity, so my brother-in-law and his ex-wife agreed to remove the support. He died within 30 minutes. 22yo, unreal.