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southendmd:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 18, 2023, 11:11:25 pm ---Wasn't it you who introduced me to Glenfiddich at the Boston Brokie weekend? Seriously--or was it someone else who brought it? Years on years I've been thinking it was you. ???
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As a good host, I would have offered Scotch to you, if that's what you had expressed an interest in. Glenfiddich was simply the only Scotch I had at hand. I dare say how old it was...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 18, 2023, 11:16:13 pm ---Got that on me. I've never had a martini. I've been thinking maybe I should go to the bar at happy hour some day and try one--but it would be gin and vermouth.
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In the mid-1980s, I went out with a coworker to celebrate our mutual birthdays. The coworker said she always likes to celebrate with a vodka martini and peel-and-eat shrimp. So I tried that and, much to my surprise, the vodka martini was very good! Now if I'm going to order a cocktail in a bar or restaurant that's usually what I (with occasional forays into Manhattans, Negronis and cognac). If there's peel-and-eat shrimp around or better yet raw oysters, so much the better.
I drink gin martinis when the occasion demands, as when my aunt and her partner used to drink them every day at 5 o'clock. A few times I have ordered one on purpose in a bar. I've never liked gin much, not even G&Ts. Maybe because that's what my parents drank so that's what I would choke down when I snuck into their liquor cabinet as a teen.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 19, 2023, 12:32:19 am ---As a good host, I would have offered Scotch to you, if that's what you had expressed an interest in. Glenfiddich was simply the only Scotch I had at hand. I dare say how old it was...
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That's what it was. At least my memory isn't totally shot.
CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!
I hope everyone is doing well!
I'm on vacation this week. I have no big plans other than to get some spring cleaning done. I'm debating going to a store tomorrow to look at some portable vacuums and shampooers to give the furniture a good cleaning. I'll also take the Easter stuff out of the windows, and clean them off.
Finally got my taxes done, was was disappointed with the refund, it was much smaller than usual. The tax preparer questioned if the withholding had been changed, but I didn't remember doing that. However, on the way home, I recalled that my company changed our payroll providers, so I'm sure that when the change happened, the withholding changed. I'll have to look into that.
Was at an Easter brunch with my family on Sunday. It was good to see them all, and the place had good food.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on April 11, 2023, 11:09:21 am ---Finally got my taxes done, was was disappointed with the refund, it was much smaller than usual. The tax preparer questioned if the withholding had been changed, but I didn't remember doing that. However, on the way home, I recalled that my company changed our payroll providers, so I'm sure that when the change happened, the withholding changed. I'll have to look into that.
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Of course, a financial planner would say small refunds are better, because theoretically you would have that money throughout the year and could have been investing it and having it grow instead of the government pocketing the growth.
But that idea runs contrary to human nature.
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