Day: January 18, 2005

…and they use too much vermouth.

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Quotes on Drinking from http://cocktails.about.com: “When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have the second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there’s no holding me.” William Faulkner “One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.” James Thurber “Do not allow children to mix drinks. It […]

Quotes on Drinking from http://cocktails.about.com:

“When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have the second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there’s no holding me.” William Faulkner

“One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.” James Thurber

“Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.” Steve Allen

“Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say, “I’m thirsty, not dirty”. Joe E. Lewis

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.” Lord Byron

“One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.” Edward Burke

“The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful, and a snootful at the same time?” Gerald R. Ford

I love me some martini quotes.

100 best novels

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From Darrell at The Realist: Modern Library 100 best novels list. It’s a funny list, and I’m unsure if I much agree with it. Damn good conversation starter though. And if you’re a big reader (and you know you are, yeah, I’m talking to you), take a look at Darrell’s site which is dedicated to […]

From Darrell at The Realist:

Modern Library 100 best novels list.

It’s a funny list, and I’m unsure if I much agree with it. Damn good conversation starter though. And if you’re a big reader (and you know you are, yeah, I’m talking to you), take a look at Darrell’s site which is dedicated to books and reading.

Work is the curse of…

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Good old Oscar Wilde said “Work is the curse of the drinking class.” Work seems to be the curse of the blogging class as well. I keep thinking of things I want to write about here but I’m so fucking busy. That’s what I get for spending the last several weeks before the holidays mostly […]

Good old Oscar Wilde said “Work is the curse of the drinking class.”

Work seems to be the curse of the blogging class as well.

I keep thinking of things I want to write about here but I’m so fucking busy. That’s what I get for spending the last several weeks before the holidays mostly fucking off.

I’m not just busy — I’m busy on a whole bunch of tasks all at the same time. I’m task-switching so fast I don’t seem to be actually doing anything, and yet I’m spinning all day and can’t seem to carry on a conversation with anyone without dropping the thread.

I would not mind if I were doing work I liked, but right now it’s mostly housekeeping. Soon, I’ll get down to some tool development or some installation, test and configuration of new tools. For now I’m in the where the hell was I phase on everything I was doing two months ago that I’ve been ignoring.

So writing, and blogging, are back-burnered for a little while. Which frustrates me because I’d rather be writing.

Actually I’d rather be drinking, or fucking, but I can’t do either of those at my desk, at least not until later.