Happy New Year! | Falcon Photography
Just a quick note to wish you a very happy new year.
All the best for 2009.
Here’s a neat little time lapse video to bring in the new year. Enjoy.
Here’s a neat little time lapse video to bring in the new year. Enjoy.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Just a quick note to say that I hope you are able to spend time on this day with family and friends. Mmmm mmmm turkey, dressing, gravy, and lots of sides with a huge slice of pie. Overeating never smelled so good. Taste so good. And then a nap on mom’s couch is a requirement. Watch some football or if you like the Thanksgiving movie release, then going out for a movie is a great way to spend the afternoon.
Here’s a quote because I thought it was appropriate for today. There always seems a divided camp when it comes to cranberry sauce. I belong to the leave it off my plate camp. What about you?
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke
Also, enjoy this classic. Carlie Chaplin prepares Thanksgiving Meal. Enjoy. Love the shoe strings as a side dish.
Well she might not be saying that anytime soon but Amy, my lovely wife, IS graduating from law school. Yep. You’re looking (well, not really looking) at one proud husband. Amy decided after spending over 16 years in an IT career that she wanted something more. So about 3 and a half years ago, she embarked on a journey that has led her to this moment. Graduation.
Her class ranking is really high. Summa Cum Laude to be exact. I was never a student of Latin so I thought that meant that she was a really boisterous student. Of course that was surely wrong because Amy would have been more of a quiet type of student. Boy was I surprised to find out it meant “with highest honors.” (jk)
Everyone, especially me, is so proud of her! Join me if you can in celebrating her walk across the stage on December 20, 2008. Here’s the details.
South Texas College of Law Graduation <–Click Here!
Please leave a comment for Amy congratulating her on the long and hard journey to practicing law.
So when I finally got a chance to review some of the emails that backed up while I was off the net, I came across this fun read from my friend Eric. I had a good laugh and can’t wait to get back in my house and try some of these fun cocktails. If you try any of these, drop me a comment on what you think.
According to the email, the manager at the St. Charles Tavern…
Max Hiller sent this list of “Hurricane Drinks” for your pleasure because it is New Orleans policy to follow all instructions and report to the nearest liquor store in the event of a hurricane!
MANDATORY EVACUATION
1 1/2 oz. Absolut Ruby Red vodka
1/2 oz. vermouth
Clamato
Prune juice
Combine vodka and vermouth in cocktail glass. Fill remainder of glass with equal parts clamato and prune juice. Stir. Drink. Ask next-door neighbor whose ficus tree blew over and crashed onto your roof– even though you’d warned him for months to uproot it–if you can use his bathroom. Repeat.
CATEGORY 5
1/2 oz. vodka
1/2 oz. tequila
1/2 oz. rum
1/2 oz. bourbon
1/2 oz. gin
Sweet-and-sour mix
Splash of fruit juice
Combine vodka, tequila, rum, bourbon and gin in a tall glass. Fill remainder of glass with sweet-and-sour mix and splash of juice. Stir, then garnish with an inverted drink umbrella. Drink during peak storm hours, and vow not to believe anyone who tries to tell you the hurricane that flooded your garage and destroyed your shed was just a Category 1.
CONE OF PROBABILITY
1 oz. cinnamon schnapps
1 sugar cone
Pour the schnapps into the sugar cone. Every time you hear a TV weatherman say, “cone of probability,” bite off the end of the cone and down the shot. If you hear Weather Channel StormTracker Jim Cantore say it, drink two shots consecutively. (they should change this to the “Cantore Zone”… damn him.) Have you ever noticed that, despite all the cone of probability talk, if Cantore is parked in front of your house your ass is toast?)
FEEDER BAND
2 oz. Midori
2 oz. rum
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
After your home loses power, combine Midori and rum in a cocktail glass. Add a scoop of the vanilla ice cream that is melting in your freezer. Stir, and drink through a straw.
BEACH EROSION
1 1/2 oz. Goldschläger
1 1/2 oz. apple brandy
1 pack Sugar in the Raw
Combine Goldschläger, apple brandy and sugar in cocktail glass. As you drink, seriously contemplate moving your Yankee ass back to New Jersey where it belongs.
DOWNED POWER LINE
1 1/2 oz. rum
5 oz. Jolt Cola
Combine ingredients in a cocktail glass. Drink while trying to figure out how the heck you’re supposed to go two freakin’ weeks without television and AC.
FLOOD ZONE
2 oz. Kahlúa
2 oz. Baileys Irish Cream
4 oz. rum
Serve in a 6-ounce glass and laugh-cry deliriously as the mess spills all over the countertop.
COLD SHOWER
2 oz. Blue Aftershock
4 oz. Sprite
Combine in a cocktail glass with crushed ice you received after waiting in line for three hours at a mall parking lot. Take a deep breath, sip and scream like a little girl when the cold beverage hits your tongue. Repeat.
LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT
1 oz. Jack Daniel’s
Splash of sarsaparilla
Rock salt
Load both barrels of a shotgun with rock salt. Climb to the roof of your house with gun, bottle of Jack Daniel’s and can of sarsaparilla. Fill shot glass with Jack and splash of sarsaparilla. Watch for looters. When you spot one, blast his ass with rock salt. Drink shot. Repeat.
THE CHAIN SAW
1 oz. Goldschläger
1 oz. Rumplemintz
3 oz. Jim Beam
Splash of vermouth
Combine Goldschläger, Rumplemintz and Jim Beam in an empty soup can. Add splash of vermouth. Drink. Remove chain saw from garage and attempt to cut up fallen tree limbs in yard. Ask neighbor to drive you to hospital when it all goes horribly wrong.
FOUR-WAY STOP
1 1/2 oz. vodka
1 1/2 oz. vodka and Midori
1 1/2 oz. vodka and Galliano
1 1/2 oz. vodka and grenadine
Pour each ingredient into a separate shot glass. Serve one to yourself and three other people. The person with the clear shot of vodka drinks first. The person to his right drinks the Midori shot, and so on. If somebody drinks out of order, develop a quick case of road rage and beat the living crap out of him.
BLUE TARP
1 1/2 oz. Curacao
2 oz. pineapple juice
Splash of lime
Combine ingredients in a leaky paper cup and serve. Wait six to eight months for someone to repair the cup. If you’re impatient, hire an unlicensed, out-of- state contractor to do the job for an exorbitant sum and pray he doesn’t hurt himself in the process.
FEMA FIZZLE
1 1/2 oz. Southern Comfort
2 oz. sloe gin
Tonic water
One week after the storm has passed and your neighborhood is still in ruins with no sign of help on the way, combine Southern Comfort and gin in a cocktail glass. Fill remainder with tonic and add a dash of Angostura bitters. Serve with a nut brownie. Before drinking, raise the glass and say the toast, “Doing a helluva job Brownie.”
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