<p>And Monday is Robert Burns’ birthday so I’ll have a Scotch.</p>
<p>Beats having haggis. :eek:</p>
<p>Wow, I’ve hardly watched football all season but I watched the Saints play the Vikings. What an exciting game!</p>
<p>Drinking a daiquiri on Bourbon Street for the Who Dat nation, and then having myself a birthday cosmo. Good night, Sinner’s Alley!</p>
<p>Happy Birthday, aibarr, and many happy returns of the day!</p>
<p>yes – D in NOLA is very excited about the Saints. Just what the city needed – something else to go wild about in February!</p>
<p>Happy computer moves, birthdays and CELEBRATIONS IN NOLA ( hi ivoryk!) Older s is going to visit younger s for mardi gras. If the saints win it all, thats gonna be one wild town!</p>
<p>I don’t have a horse in the Super Bowl race, nor do I care about football in any case, but I’m going to root for the Saints for sure.</p>
<p>What do they drink? Hurricanes?</p>
<p>Actually, cafe au lait and beignets sounds better up here in the freezing Midwest.</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>Here’s a toast to seeing the sun in the sky for TWO DAYS IN A ROW! </p>
<p>:) 
:)</p>
<p>mommusic, loving the sun, too! It’s making me want to run to the nursery to buy flowers and work in the yard this weekend!</p>
<p>Plenty of sunshine here in HI today (and the locals call it cloudy ??). H and I are on our “manolo” vacation (ie a mini-vacation that costs the same $$ as two pairs of said designer shoes :D) Maitais to everyone in the Alley!</p>
<p>BB–I’m insanely jealous. I’m also jealous of my friend who went to New Orleans for the weekend. </p>
<p>At least we are getting sunshine here. Brisk, cold sunshine.</p>
<p>How about a toast to the new Miss America? She’s a Virginia gal, like me! :)</p>
<p>Her name is pretty porn-star-ish. Caressa? Really? But what the hey, cheers.</p>
<p>If THAT doesn’t deserve a round in the alley, I don’t know what does. Cheers!</p>
<p>[Without</a> groundhogs, Alaska to celebrate Marmot Day - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020101978.html]Without”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020101978.html)</p>
<p>a round of Pink Squirells for all…in honor of Marmot Day!
Pink Squirrel:
1 oz Creme de Noyaux Liqueur
1 tbsp White Creme de Cacao Liqueur
1 tbsp Light Cream</p>
<p>I couldn’t get the Post article to open. But I am highly in favor of Marmots!</p>
<p>I’m here to cry in my beer. Whatta ya got for someone with a heat pump that went out AGAIN? And how about something really nasty for the company that repeated fails to diagnose or permanently fix said heat pump?</p>
<p>We have electric heat so there IS heat while the pump is down, it’s just $%#@&ing expensive.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the heat pump is under extended warranty. But only for the next 5 months. I think the repair guys are in cahoots to ride it out. :D</p>
<p>mommusic, I’m buying you a can of Steel Reserve, if you’re willing to go that low to drown your sorrows.</p>
<p>You see, I resolved not to have any beer for two weeks as a cost-cutting measure. Well, the two weeks are up today, and my wife has informed me that she picked up some Steel Reserve, the only canned beer she’ll touch.</p>
<p>So I’m off to have a cold one at home! Cheers, fellow citizens of the Earth!</p>
<p>Cheers! And thanks but I’ll spring for a Sam Adams dark. The heat pump problem turned out to be a dead breaker problem. Did you know if they get tripped too many times they plumb give up? </p>
<p>So…the electrician replaced the breaker, and while I was home waiting for all these experts, I got a lot of work done on a wall hanging I’ve been trying to finish.</p>
<p>And I’m glad I restrained my language in talking to the furnace people, cause it really wasn’t their fault.</p>
<p>:cool:</p>
<p>Page 5! Just watched the last few minutes of the Super Bowl. That’s all I can handle - and this time I wasn’t disappointed. But…we’ve got lots of food leftover because our kids decided to hang out with their friends this time…I’m not ready to be an empty nester!!!
I think I’ll have that beer now.</p>
<p>The Super Bowl was satisfying for me as well. :)</p>
<p>And I got my annual Buffalo Wings. :)</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>We have a lot of snow here. An awful lot. So tired of shoveling…</p>
<p>Anybody have any good snow stories? I’ll sit back in the Naugahyde booth with my hot chocolate and peanuts and listen.</p>