Casualties of the Great Blizzard of 2014 (victims of the bitter cold, not the abundant snow):
1 Carlsberg
1 O'Doul's (not mine)
2 Schweppes tonic water
2 Schweppes ginger ale
None of the Yuengling Lagers (mine) in the garage burst, nor did any of the Sam Adams Boston Lagers (my parents'); mayhap beer from commonwealths (Penn. & Mass.) is better able to endure the subzero cold? Nevertheless, they too have been belated moved inside the house. Temperatures should return to normal in the next day of two, again making the garage a cavernous supplemental refrigerator. 'Twas foolishness on my part to leave the mixers, the tonic water & ginger ale, outside, as they have no alcoholic content to aid them in resisting freezing. I hope this cold snap's lessons are not forgotten.
Kith & Kin
When The L.A.W. & Brother-in-L.A.W.—& their two delightful bairns, the Squeak & the Monkey—were here for Christmas, Brother-in-L.A.W. drank all my gin. I do not begrudge him this, I'm just reporting the facts. In the course of a six-day visit, he drank the entire fifth of Bombay Sapphire my mom had acquired for his gin & Frescas & the third of a fifth I'd had around for mine own gin & tonics. Also, he finished off the fifth of a fifth of Smirnoff that had been sitting around for ages, since some long-past Psych watching party with the old Econ. Club gang.
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