USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Foxfyre]

Seeing how there was only 12 minutes between my post and yours, I am assuming you didn't listen to these songs... And that's all right, because you are correct when you said it is not your kind of music... I listen to a whole shitload of music and enjoy such a wide variety because I try to keep an open mind... To each his own...

Yeah Montro and I are worlds apart in our taste in music, but we have agree to disagree amicably on that. I like Buffett okay and it is usually great dance music. I can't say he is my favorite but not hard for me to listen to.

 

[Foxfyre]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

I'm very much like Elizabeth Swan and/or Anouk (in Chocolat) in my fascination with the romance and mystique of pirates. But the swashbuckling kind and not the "Captain Phillips'" kind of pirates.

And rum and coke was always my drink of choice when available even though rum gave me a frightful headache. I suppose I was allergic to it, but I toughed it out.

My aunt did one of those genealogy things and told me that we had an ancestor who was hung in New York for piracy.

Arrrrr! Shiver me timbers!

My birthday falls on Talk Like a Pirate Day so maybe that has something to do with it? "Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of my favorite movies just to put on and relax and enjoy the fun and sheer genius of it.

 

[ChrisL]

It is almost 2 a.m. here, and I'm not tired yet, and I have to go shopping in the morning. I am going to log off and try to get some sleep!

 

[Foxfyre]

Good night darlinks. I really do love you guys.

And we continue to pray and/or send good vibes and/or positive thoughts and/or keep vigil for

Harper (Save's granddaughter),
Pogo’s friend Pat and special comfort for Pogo,
Nosmo's mom,
Rod, GW's partner,
Kat's sister,
Sherry's Mom for treatment to be successful,
The Ringels in difficult transition
Dana, Foxfyre's friend recovering from heart transplant
Mr. and Mrs. Gracie in difficult transition
Mr. and Mrs. Peach174 for full recovery from setback,
Strength and stamina for gallantwarrior in his relocation project,
Ringel's injured shoulder and general wellness,
Montro's upset tummy,
Drifter for the best job ever,
ricechickie for trouble free healing,
Saveliberty for success on the test and career,
Gracie for the best news possible,
BigBlackDog for comfort and effective treatment,
And for our students, job hunters, others in transition.

And the light is left on for Noomi, Freedombecki, Esthermoon, Sixfoot, and all others we hope are okay and will return to us.

 

[Sbiker]

Ha-ha, you just afraid concurrency from Russian girls

I think those people are crazy and just asking for frostbite!

No, they are just jolly and have a hot hearts

You say jolly, I say crazy.

I think, sad and whining people are really much more crazy!

I think they're a hoot!! (In American talk, that is a good thing. ) When I was still young with a better thermostat I would have joined in that group in a heartbeat, but probably just long enough for the photo. Of course I had a body that could withstand photographing in a bathing suit then. Now, not so much.

There are no any impossible things in every age. For example, at my 39 I feel like true student, taking online courses and fun with them. One course I didn't touch for a three months after start - like in University, where you generally could spend your time like young people like between the sessions... Do you know joke about student in hell?

 

[Sbiker]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

Yeah, I understand.... And also Porter or Absinth like a drink of poets and poor but creative men... Red sweet strong wine - malaga - like a drink at Spanish galleon, hunting pirates on holed, rum-smelled troughs... Don't know, what I could remember for red dry - but I like it

I suppose, William Wallase drunk a whiskey, and Dr. Zhivago, being a doctor - a dissolved spirit, drink of soviet medicians, engineers and naval specialists )

Rum is a good drink, but how about Champagne? Hussars and Champagne for ladies, I think, more romantic

 

[Sbiker]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

I'm very much like Elizabeth Swan and/or Anouk (in Chocolat) in my fascination with the romance and mystique of pirates. But the swashbuckling kind and not the "Captain Phillips'" kind of pirates.

And rum and coke was always my drink of choice when available even though rum gave me a frightful headache. I suppose I was allergic to it, but I toughed it out.

My aunt did one of those genealogy things and told me that we had an ancestor who was hung in New York for piracy.

Arrrrr! Shiver me timbers!

My birthday falls on Talk Like a Pirate Day so maybe that has something to do with it? "Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of my favorite movies just to put on and relax and enjoy the fun and sheer genius of it.

What about "Island of Treasure" by Stevenson? AN awesome book for several generations in Russia. Have you seen Russian animated movie on this book?

 

[Dajjal]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

Yeah, I understand.... And also Porter or Absinth like a drink of poets and poor but creative men... Red sweet strong wine - malaga - like a drink at Spanish galleon, hunting pirates on holed, rum-smelled troughs... Don't know, what I could remember for red dry - but I like it

I suppose, William Wallase drunk a whiskey, and Dr. Zhivago, being a doctor - a dissolved spirit, drink of soviet medicians, engineers and naval specialists )

Rum is a good drink, but how about Champagne? Hussars and Champagne for ladies, I think, more romantic

A mere 39, wait till you get to forty, your eyes will probably start going. I am 71 and I have been told I have gum disease and may loose all my teeth. I am just trying not to think about what having all my teeth out will be like, and what its like to eat with false teeth.

 

[Sbiker]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

Yeah, I understand.... And also Porter or Absinth like a drink of poets and poor but creative men... Red sweet strong wine - malaga - like a drink at Spanish galleon, hunting pirates on holed, rum-smelled troughs... Don't know, what I could remember for red dry - but I like it

I suppose, William Wallase drunk a whiskey, and Dr. Zhivago, being a doctor - a dissolved spirit, drink of soviet medicians, engineers and naval specialists )

Rum is a good drink, but how about Champagne? Hussars and Champagne for ladies, I think, more romantic

A mere 39, wait till you get to forty, your eyes will probably start going. I am 71 and I have been told I have gum disease and may loose all my teeth. I am just trying not to think about what having all my teeth out will be like, and what its like to eat with false teeth.

When I get similar problem with teeth, I'll go to live in village, where I have a small house. There are places near the cretaceous hills and water from wells have a solid doze of calcium... Or maybe some else, and I don't know, how it really useful to whole health - but all local oldmen do have a working teeth, really! In 70, in 80!

 

[Foxfyre]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

Yeah, I understand.... And also Porter or Absinth like a drink of poets and poor but creative men... Red sweet strong wine - malaga - like a drink at Spanish galleon, hunting pirates on holed, rum-smelled troughs... Don't know, what I could remember for red dry - but I like it

I suppose, William Wallase drunk a whiskey, and Dr. Zhivago, being a doctor - a dissolved spirit, drink of soviet medicians, engineers and naval specialists )

Rum is a good drink, but how about Champagne? Hussars and Champagne for ladies, I think, more romantic

A mere 39, wait till you get to forty, your eyes will probably start going. I am 71 and I have been told I have gum disease and may loose all my teeth. I am just trying not to think about what having all my teeth out will be like, and what its like to eat with false teeth.

If you can't clear up the problem and worse comes to worse, see if your health plan will pay for the kind of dentures that hook onto posts implanted in the bone. Here our health insurance policies and most dental plans will not and the process costs about $30k in American dollars which prices it out of range for all but the young with very good jobs and/or the wealthy. But maybe it would be more affordable for you? The results are good looking dentures that are as close to your own teeth as possible and without all the bulky framework that are the downside of full dentures. Or if they can save just a few of your real teeth, those can anchor dentures too.

I have not been blessed with good teeth myself. And I look at my 91 year old aunt who still has ALL her teeth in excellent condition and think it just isn't fair.

 

[Foxfyre]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

I'm very much like Elizabeth Swan and/or Anouk (in Chocolat) in my fascination with the romance and mystique of pirates. But the swashbuckling kind and not the "Captain Phillips'" kind of pirates.

And rum and coke was always my drink of choice when available even though rum gave me a frightful headache. I suppose I was allergic to it, but I toughed it out.

My aunt did one of those genealogy things and told me that we had an ancestor who was hung in New York for piracy.

Arrrrr! Shiver me timbers!

My birthday falls on Talk Like a Pirate Day so maybe that has something to do with it? "Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of my favorite movies just to put on and relax and enjoy the fun and sheer genius of it.

What about "Island of Treasure" by Stevenson? AN awesome book for several generations in Russia. Have you seen Russian animated movie on this book?

No I haven't. I read the book as a youth--did a book report on it once--but so long ago I probably should read it again.

But on your other mention, we have "Doctor Zhivago" in our home movie collection and watched it again recently. An absolutely beautiful and well done movie but also disturbing and depressing. It isn't a movie I would watch when I want to lift my spirits.

 

[Sbiker]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

Yeah, I understand.... And also Porter or Absinth like a drink of poets and poor but creative men... Red sweet strong wine - malaga - like a drink at Spanish galleon, hunting pirates on holed, rum-smelled troughs... Don't know, what I could remember for red dry - but I like it

I suppose, William Wallase drunk a whiskey, and Dr. Zhivago, being a doctor - a dissolved spirit, drink of soviet medicians, engineers and naval specialists )

Rum is a good drink, but how about Champagne? Hussars and Champagne for ladies, I think, more romantic

A mere 39, wait till you get to forty, your eyes will probably start going. I am 71 and I have been told I have gum disease and may loose all my teeth. I am just trying not to think about what having all my teeth out will be like, and what its like to eat with false teeth.

See if your health plan will pay for the kind of dentures that hook onto posts implanted in the bone. Here our health insurance policies and most dental plans will not and the process costs about $30k in American dollars which prices it out of range for all but the young with very good jobs and/or the wealthy. But maybe it would be more affordable for you? The results are good looking dentures that are as close to your own teeth as possible and without all the bulky framework that are the downside of full dentures. Or if they can save just a few of your real teeth, those can anchor dentures too.

I have not been blessed with good teeth myself. And I look at my 91 year old aunt who still has ALL her teeth in excellent condition and think it just isn't fair.

If seriously, a lot of Russians, migrated to US and Canada usually periodically go back to Russia to visit dentists... Here is still cheaper than in most places in world

 

[Foxfyre]

) Why not? A had a bottle of anis-flavored vodka about half of year in my case, but during the NY walking it reduced to half, step by step.. I think, I'll make a effort at this weekend to finish it ) But if it happen occasionally - it would be double good

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

Yeah, I understand.... And also Porter or Absinth like a drink of poets and poor but creative men... Red sweet strong wine - malaga - like a drink at Spanish galleon, hunting pirates on holed, rum-smelled troughs... Don't know, what I could remember for red dry - but I like it

I suppose, William Wallase drunk a whiskey, and Dr. Zhivago, being a doctor - a dissolved spirit, drink of soviet medicians, engineers and naval specialists )

Rum is a good drink, but how about Champagne? Hussars and Champagne for ladies, I think, more romantic

A mere 39, wait till you get to forty, your eyes will probably start going. I am 71 and I have been told I have gum disease and may loose all my teeth. I am just trying not to think about what having all my teeth out will be like, and what its like to eat with false teeth.

See if your health plan will pay for the kind of dentures that hook onto posts implanted in the bone. Here our health insurance policies and most dental plans will not and the process costs about $30k in American dollars which prices it out of range for all but the young with very good jobs and/or the wealthy. But maybe it would be more affordable for you? The results are good looking dentures that are as close to your own teeth as possible and without all the bulky framework that are the downside of full dentures. Or if they can save just a few of your real teeth, those can anchor dentures too.

I have not been blessed with good teeth myself. And I look at my 91 year old aunt who still has ALL her teeth in excellent condition and think it just isn't fair.

If seriously, a lot of Russians, migrated to US and Canada usually periodically go back to Russia to visit dentists... Here is still cheaper than in most places in world

I can believe that. I suspect the USA is maybe the most expensive place in the world when it comes to dentistry.

 

[Sbiker]

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

I'm very much like Elizabeth Swan and/or Anouk (in Chocolat) in my fascination with the romance and mystique of pirates. But the swashbuckling kind and not the "Captain Phillips'" kind of pirates.

And rum and coke was always my drink of choice when available even though rum gave me a frightful headache. I suppose I was allergic to it, but I toughed it out.

My aunt did one of those genealogy things and told me that we had an ancestor who was hung in New York for piracy.

Arrrrr! Shiver me timbers!

My birthday falls on Talk Like a Pirate Day so maybe that has something to do with it? "Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of my favorite movies just to put on and relax and enjoy the fun and sheer genius of it.

What about "Island of Treasure" by Stevenson? AN awesome book for several generations in Russia. Have you seen Russian animated movie on this book?

No I haven't. I read the book as a youth--did a book report on it once--but so long ago I probably should read it again.

But on your other mention, we have "Doctor Zhivago" in our home movie collection and watched it again recently. An absolutely beautiful and well done movie but also disturbing and depressing. It isn't a movie I would watch when I want to lift my spirits.

It's a famous book and Pasternak, previously, a talented poet

But. There are a lot of books, films, opinions and so on about "Russia, which we lost", means before-revolution Russia. Both Pasternak and his hero, Dr. Zhivago - from "Intelligentsia", quite rich and educated people with a "free" profession... like Ayn Rand and so on... Offcourse, they had reason to be in depression, because Soviet Authorities made their life more poor, for make better life of another 200 million people in former Russian Empire... But as for me, I share the point of view of another Russian poet Nickolay Gumilev: "Me? I'm not intelligentsia! I have a profession!" So, I prefer positive mood to work and build own life, than depressive "searches of soul" of "intelligentsia" ) Now they usually call men like me a "cotton jacket" ))

 

[Sbiker]

Why not what? Memory wanes as oldth waxes - but something about Deep Eddy Lemon Vodka, Licor 43, ice, lemonade, cream and the whirring sound of a blender rings a bell.

Interesting how we sometimes associate types of alcohol to regions - beer makes me think of folks in Lederhosen...Scotch brings to mind kilts and moors...Irish Whiskey, well leprechauns and blarney...rum, the drink of sword wielding pirates plundering the turquoise seas and fragrant, velvety soft tropical nights of the Caribbean, and vodka? - fur clad Cossack's with icy beards rampaging through the deep snow of the cold, dark North.

In other time and place whose drink might have appealed?...William Wallace or Cu Chalainn?...Captain Jack Sparrow or Dr. Zhivago?

Rum wins. *sigh* what lady could resist a rum swilling, sword wielding bad boy in dreads? *sigh*

Are you a fan of Jimmy Buffett? One of my favorite songs...

A Pirate Looks at 40.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder,
I'm an over forty victim of fate...

Yeah, I understand.... And also Porter or Absinth like a drink of poets and poor but creative men... Red sweet strong wine - malaga - like a drink at Spanish galleon, hunting pirates on holed, rum-smelled troughs... Don't know, what I could remember for red dry - but I like it

I suppose, William Wallase drunk a whiskey, and Dr. Zhivago, being a doctor - a dissolved spirit, drink of soviet medicians, engineers and naval specialists )

Rum is a good drink, but how about Champagne? Hussars and Champagne for ladies, I think, more romantic

A mere 39, wait till you get to forty, your eyes will probably start going. I am 71 and I have been told I have gum disease and may loose all my teeth. I am just trying not to think about what having all my teeth out will be like, and what its like to eat with false teeth.

See if your health plan will pay for the kind of dentures that hook onto posts implanted in the bone. Here our health insurance policies and most dental plans will not and the process costs about $30k in American dollars which prices it out of range for all but the young with very good jobs and/or the wealthy. But maybe it would be more affordable for you? The results are good looking dentures that are as close to your own teeth as possible and without all the bulky framework that are the downside of full dentures. Or if they can save just a few of your real teeth, those can anchor dentures too.

I have not been blessed with good teeth myself. And I look at my 91 year old aunt who still has ALL her teeth in excellent condition and think it just isn't fair.

If seriously, a lot of Russians, migrated to US and Canada usually periodically go back to Russia to visit dentists... Here is still cheaper than in most places in world

I can believe that. I suspect the USA is maybe the most expensive place in the world when it comes to dentistry.

It's because USSR had united and free medicine, and we still use features of it. Medical education is quite easily available in Russia, so we have a concurrency in stomatology and other parts of medicine

 

[Foxfyre]

I'm very much like Elizabeth Swan and/or Anouk (in Chocolat) in my fascination with the romance and mystique of pirates. But the swashbuckling kind and not the "Captain Phillips'" kind of pirates.

And rum and coke was always my drink of choice when available even though rum gave me a frightful headache. I suppose I was allergic to it, but I toughed it out.

My aunt did one of those genealogy things and told me that we had an ancestor who was hung in New York for piracy.

Arrrrr! Shiver me timbers!

My birthday falls on Talk Like a Pirate Day so maybe that has something to do with it? "Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of my favorite movies just to put on and relax and enjoy the fun and sheer genius of it.

What about "Island of Treasure" by Stevenson? AN awesome book for several generations in Russia. Have you seen Russian animated movie on this book?

No I haven't. I read the book as a youth--did a book report on it once--but so long ago I probably should read it again.

But on your other mention, we have "Doctor Zhivago" in our home movie collection and watched it again recently. An absolutely beautiful and well done movie but also disturbing and depressing. It isn't a movie I would watch when I want to lift my spirits.

It's a famous book and Pasternak, previously, a talented poet

But. There are a lot of books, films, opinions and so on about "Russia, which we lost", means before-revolution Russia. Both Pasternak and his hero, Dr. Zhivago - from "Intelligentsia", quite rich and educated people with a "free" profession... like Ayn Rand and so on... Offcourse, they had reason to be in depression, because Soviet Authorities made their life more poor, for make better life of another 200 million people in former Russian Empire... But as for me, I share the point of view of another Russian poet Nickolay Gumilev: "Me? I'm not intelligentsia! I have a profession!" So, I prefer positive mood to work and build own life, than depressive "searches of soul" of "intelligentsia" ) Now they usually call men like me a "cotton jacket" ))

"Cotton jacket"? Is that like the American "working stiff" or 'common man' or 'redneck' or what? Depending on context, all are good things in America.

 

[Sbiker]

My aunt did one of those genealogy things and told me that we had an ancestor who was hung in New York for piracy.

Arrrrr! Shiver me timbers!

My birthday falls on Talk Like a Pirate Day so maybe that has something to do with it? "Pirates of the Caribbean" is one of my favorite movies just to put on and relax and enjoy the fun and sheer genius of it.

What about "Island of Treasure" by Stevenson? AN awesome book for several generations in Russia. Have you seen Russian animated movie on this book?

No I haven't. I read the book as a youth--did a book report on it once--but so long ago I probably should read it again.

But on your other mention, we have "Doctor Zhivago" in our home movie collection and watched it again recently. An absolutely beautiful and well done movie but also disturbing and depressing. It isn't a movie I would watch when I want to lift my spirits.

It's a famous book and Pasternak, previously, a talented poet

But. There are a lot of books, films, opinions and so on about "Russia, which we lost", means before-revolution Russia. Both Pasternak and his hero, Dr. Zhivago - from "Intelligentsia", quite rich and educated people with a "free" profession... like Ayn Rand and so on... Offcourse, they had reason to be in depression, because Soviet Authorities made their life more poor, for make better life of another 200 million people in former Russian Empire... But as for me, I share the point of view of another Russian poet Nickolay Gumilev: "Me? I'm not intelligentsia! I have a profession!" So, I prefer positive mood to work and build own life, than depressive "searches of soul" of "intelligentsia" ) Now they usually call men like me a "cotton jacket" ))

"Cotton jacket"? Is that like the American "working stiff" or 'common man' or 'redneck' or what? Depending on context, all are good things in America.

Yeah, something like it. Because cotton jacket was an uniform of Soviet Army in WWII, an uniform of working men and also an uniform of prisoners and so on, so on... Very popular outerwear for almost all hardworking people in our climate during cold weather ))

Now it used like anti-Russian and anti-Patriotic mem - but it's a politic )))

 

[Foxfyre]

It is almost 2 a.m. here, and I'm not tired yet, and I have to go shopping in the morning. I am going to log off and try to get some sleep!

That used to be the story of my life. I was the proverbial night owl at my efficiency and creative best late at night and well into the next day. I think that might be due to so many years of enjoying some hours of uninterrupted solitude after a busy day of constantly working with people and after hubby and the kids were fast asleep. I could put the soothing voice of Art Bell and/or George Noory on overnight radio on in the background where I didn't really listen to them all that much or put on some wordless music and I was in my own little world for awhile. I miss that sometimes now as I am not so much a night owl. But I still enjoy an hour or two all by myself late at night at times and will sometimes find that it is 1 or 2 a.m.

And that's okay. We're grown ups. We can stay up late if we want to.

 

[Foxfyre]

Time for our weekly 42 game partners to arrive. Catch ya'll later.

 

[Gracie]

Back from the doc. Mamm was done again...5 pics this time. Magnified. They have an on staff specialist too. Said they didn't like to keep people waiting for a letter and could tell me within 15 minutes. And they did.
All clear. Calcification, no changes from last years mamm. See me next November.