Haha I don't think much liquor to be honest. More of a wine/beer guy but a nice scotch and an everyday whiskey is nice to have around and seemed essential as a starter kit for the new shelf haha
Watch the underhanging glasses when you're pulling out the bottles. It looks like a lot of clearance but you'll lift the bottles a good 8 inches from the shelf unless you make a conscious effort not to. Take it from a restaurant engineer... we budget at least two feet of clearance for all bar areas. And even then....
i went on a shopping spree.... i bought: a stone tea tumbler some tea leaves (carrot cake rooibos, and vanilla yerba mate) a t-shirt that says "Book Witch" (@Catriona Grace gave me the idea ) and Lilo and Stitch pajamas. i am now what the peeps call "cool"
Honey, I've always thought you were as cool as a roomful of refrigerated cucumbers. Pictures of tee shirt are required. I actually went shopping yesterday. Yeah, surprised me, too. I bought a pair of gardening gloves, a new handheld spray nozzle that has settings ranging from gentle mist to hard blast (perfect for shooting raccoons and squirrels out of my trees), and a jar of Jordan almonds for my grandson.
Looks like you ran out of liquor money there! I like this thread. I don’t feel as bad about my own spending habits. After amazon emailed me with their proposals to build a warehouse next door to me - to save on their delivery costs - I was feeling really bad.
Maybe not a bought or got, as it certainly isn't a for sure, but I put an offer in on a vacation home/rental. Funny thing is, after a week of viewing homes in person, this was the first one after I already left and had to view on video tour. Kind of terrifying putting in an offer without seeing a place in person. But I guess when it feels right, it feels right. Still, if it goes through it'll be the single largest money drop I've ever done. I don't think I'll sleep well tonight.
Now come on - I don't know the rules of the thread, but I am pretty sure that house trumps boat? (c: Fingers crossed for you @EFMingo I did that nine years ago - cashed in the insurance-plan I had been paying into for fifteen years to cover my mortgage and used the money for a deposit on a rental; turned out, more by luck than judgement, to be a very good move.
How far from your regular home? Our house in NH is roughly 3.5 hours away, which makes a caretaker a necessity. Even with that the upkeep is a bit of a bitch. There are 4 regular seasonal maintenance trips that eat up much of the vacation. And the caretaker is there for the random weather events, power outages, tree cleanup, and other things. Definitely worth it, but stressful with two houses to upkeep.
A new GM and a second sous chef for my flagship restaurant, the one I used to run and have been stuck in again after my replacement went batshit and got himself fired. It's a very good day but I'm relatively certain we're just rearranging the deck chairs at this point. The sous is a former executive chef that we had to pay exec money to bring on board because we can't find help any other way. Between my real exec, two sous, a GM, a floor manager, and a lead line, I now have roughly 17% of total revenue invested in 6 people. This would have been fatal 3 years ago and might still be fatal now. The owner of the company and I basically decided to invest every penny of profit from all the stores into hiring high end personnel, as the regular workers we used to rely on no longer exist.
A 17-hand mule (5'8" at the withers, for you non-equine loving types who are imagining a very handy mule). On my way to pick him up now.
If we're doing work things now ...85 grands worth of lifeguarding for this years cover on one beach (over twice what we had last year)... this is the largest purchase order ive raised in this job and the second largest of my career (the largest being 250k for a cycleway) Meanwhile me personally just bought a second hand CSC camera - panasonic GF5 with a 12-35 lens, i've got lots of DSLR equipment but i wanted something small and light to walk around with
Mule secured. We had to stop at a friend's place halfway home to tranquilize the new guy. No, not afraid of trailers, but had just been separated from his lady love and was not handling it well. She is on her way to a new home in Nebraska. Son is thinking of calling him Flea. The 16 hand mule is called Mouse.
Why does one buy a mule? No snark, just genuine curiosity about the place a mule will have in your life. Horses are for riding and looking pretty, cattle are for milk and meat, ditto for goats, and mules are for _________?
Fair question. Mules are for riding, packing, and looking pretty, just like horses. My son leads pack and hunting trips into the wilderness. Mules are smarter, more sensible, and hardier than horses as a rule, and much easier to feed- they don't eat as much or require as high a quality of feed as a horse. They live longer than horses and are stronger, pound for pound. Flea will be able to pack out an entire elk carcass by himself.
I don't know why that caught me off guard, @Iain Aschendale , but I let out an enormous quack of laughter. Thank you. As for my recent purchases, I forgot I gifted myself some books and they arrived today. Pleasant surprise after a draining day.
A book on moss (the stuff you find growing on trees and rocks, not the racing driver) and two 15” long tweezers (one straight tipped, the other hooked).
A selection of 56 cheap fishing lures and boxes to put them in. Seems silly to live within smelling distance of several bodies of water and not do a lot more fishing.
