We were lucky to be around for Guy Fawkes Night (has it been renamed?) visiting friends near Nottingham in '06. Fun evening.
Nah. Naming is interchangeable between the two.
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I went on a Bikes and Bourbon trip in and around Lexington in May. I drove there and thus was able to come home with a trunk quite full of bourbon from the various distilleries we visited. I am not much for emergency preparedness but for tomorrow, I purposely stocked up.
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Burger and a Manhattan sounds excellent, but so does the white bean and fennel casserole!
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What were your favorites?
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I just had a Manhattan, and the mister just had a burger, so we’ve completed our practice run.
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The one I drank last! At each distillery I could identify my favorite of the ones we tasted but I don’t think my palate could remember previous tastings.
I am in the middle of this bottle and really like it:
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enjoy your burger and manhattan, the beans will be even better on wednesday.
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Currently sipping tequila, giving my liver a light work out before the serious night.
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NYT White Bean and Fennel Casserole
I’ve got “all the things”! Have you made it before? Did it earn a repeat?
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Pre-gaming is key.
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Today several of my colleagues were laid off, my former colleagues went on strike, and my performance review was on the calendar… all before 2 PM. The idea that tomorrow is going to be 100X more stressful is nearly nauseating.
As for food tomorrow:
I had a ham slice for grillin on the menu, but I might need to pivot to something more time-intensive so I can distract myself. I almost gave in to the Stress Eating Urge tonight (a pint of ice cream in the car, anyone?) but I fended it off… whether I’ll be able to do so again tomorrow remains to be seen.
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Chinese takeout night is sounding more and more attractive.
I might chill a bottle of Riesling.
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I made the mistake of saving some very old performance reviews. I have no idea why I saved them or how they got stuck in a box with some “important” papers, but I recently stumbled across them.
After reading them, I was infuriated (with myself) that I put up with such nonsense (back then) for a really crappy paycheck. I should have changed jobs after that first review.
I so wish I had immediately shredded those documents after bringing them home.
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Yikes. I hope tomorrow (today, now, I guess - I am having trouble sleeping) is no where near as bad as you feel it could be. Goes for all of us. Good luck mig.
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Hope all goes well you today and the coming period, and that what you hope for comes to pass.
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Oh, i feel for you.
I had to deliver the news of a layoff to the guy who trained me recently. It was awful. (He took it incredibly well, but it killed me.)
And I just got severely upbraided for a situation I didnt create, had no ability to pre-empt, and broke my neck to buffer, but there had to be a scapegoat.
Not at all a “mine is worse than you”…just a Holy Crap its rough here in the trenches.
Sincere hopes it gets better.
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I figured out years ago that whatever the ‘bot’ in management felt about my performance was just their ‘opinion’. It took a long while to get there, tho.
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