Category: food & drink

• choices

  March 15, 2013

  beer, entertainment, festivals, food & drink, movies, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants, Wisc Film Fest

  It’s our custom every year to retire to a booth at The Roman Candle pizza parlor and choose the films that we want to see at the annual Wisconsin Film Festival. In years past, the festival’s schedule has been published a week before tickets went on sale but this year, along with all the other… Read.

• Alchemy

  March 14, 2013

  beer, entertainment, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, office work, play, restaurants, work

  Becky and John joined us for our weekly night-out at Alchemy. My Darling B works with Becky at the DMV and about a month ago invited her and her husband, John, to join us for dinner at Smokey’s the last time we went there. Ever since then we’ve been trying to get together again. Our… Read.

• ramblin

  March 12, 2013

  coffee, daily drivel, food & drink, sleeplessness

  In spite of daylight savings time I was in bed by nine last night and couldn’t keep my eyes open past nine-thirty, so why am I awake at four o’clock this morning? Well, part of it is because we have cats, of course, but it’s also because I woke up gasping for air after my… Read.

• visiting

  February 16, 2013

  booze, daily drivel, food & drink, Mom, O’Folks, play, travel, vacation

  I took a little trip this weekend to visit with Mom. As she lives in Arkansas, I had to choose between driving or flying. I’d rather be the subject of almost any kind of invasive strip search than be cooped up in a car for twelve hours, so I chose to fly. And regretted it… Read.

• hell yes

  February 4, 2013

  beer, entertainment, food & drink, hobby, play, space geekery

  Aw, hell yes! Read.

• fifteen

  January 28, 2013

  beer, daily drivel, festivals, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, travel

  We are exhausted after our long, long journey to the distant city of Stevens Point, where we stayed overnight after attending the 15th anniversary celebration of the Central Waters Brewing Company in Amherst. Really. I need a nap. Oh, wait, I already had a nap. Guess I’ll write some drivel, then. If, for some reason,… Read.

• my friday

  January 26, 2013

  booze, commuting, daily drivel, festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, My Darling B, O’Folks, O’Folks friends, play, restaurants, work

  This was how my Friday began: I drove My Darling B to work yesterday because we were going to meet some friends of hers at Smoky’s Club on the west side. If I had the car and went back to pick her up after work, it would eliminate a lot of driving back and forth.… Read.

• Frrronch fries!

  January 19, 2013

  daily drivel, food & drink, play, restaurants

  I just heard a radio advertisement announcing special deals at McDonald’s, but only for their ‘a la carte’ items. When did McDonald’s become so frou-frou that they started advertising in French? Read.

• choices

  January 13, 2013

  food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  Choices, choices. Next weekend is the start of Restaurant Week here in Madison, Wisconsin, Our Fair City. My Darling B has been pouring over menus to try to decide which ones she wants to go to, and has whittled it down to a ‘short list’ of thirty-seven dozen restaurants, more restaurants than are actually participating… Read.

• heaven

  December 22, 2012

  beer, daily drivel, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  After the Mayan apocalypse brought the end of the universe some time late last night, I woke up this morning curled up around My Darling B. I always hoped that, if there was a heaven, it would be something like this. I had to work yesterday but, when quitting time was drawing near, I shot… Read.