Had a short practice in the afternoon with my bass & keys to work up a few more standards for our next show mid-September. We have roughly 85 songs in our repertoire, but tend to play the same 30 
, so Iâm pretty excited to have ânewâ tunes on the set list.
We had a larger group than usual at ladies night, since it was also a chance to say good-bye, although a few are joining us for our final Sichuan jour fixe tomorrow (so many finals this week 
), and it was fun as ever. Ima miss these bishes something fierce, but a few are planning to come down and visit, and Iâve âthreatenedâ to organize their future gatherings online if theyâre incapable of getting their ish together without me. It ainât rocket surgery.
Food-wise, I had the wedge salad with cashel blue, heirloom tomatoes, lardons, red onion.
It was generous with the blue, a little less so with the dressing & the heirloom tomatoes, and I donât like to be served uncut lettuce. I got three halves of baby romaine heads, all of them with the (brown) stems still on. 
. If Iâd wanted to cut my own salad I coulda stayed home & made my own 
We also split the rosemary smashed potatoes with lemon aioli and Calabrian chilis, which our bartender pronounced âlike crack.â
They might have been â had they been crispier, and the chili was barely detectable. My gals loved their fried fish sammich,
however, and a friendly regular let me try a spoon of the amazing panna cotta with roasted figs, local honey, and basil.
I had a spicy passionfruit margarita, then stuck to martinis. Finished the bottle of Vietnamese gin 
I might have snuck a few bites of lamb when I got home.
