your favorite month of the year, and why?

It’s my birth month. And it’s when the cold, gray skies and rainy Fall days that I cherish so much return after awful, hot, hot summer.

indicator of summers to come.

Hope you have wonderful drinkables to see you through the weekend.

Mine is the Negroni, followed by the Whiskey Sour. Both require perfect proportions and a deft touch. The latter you order for the ladies, the former for your bros. A bad bartender will spoil your night with either.

No other cocktail, in my opinion, varies so widely from bartender to bartender.

whiskey sours for the men, if we are going to actually use such distinctions.

I love Amaretto, but not in a Sour. As weird as chocolate-covered bacon.

Not bad...

although I adore a good mole. Thank goodness I can purchase decent mole sauces!

There’s a Mexican restaurant in town here that makes chicken enchiladas molé to die for.

Cal Raliegh with the miracle ending 3 run jack bottom 8.

Helluva game!

I don’t watch sports.

to stick the pins in my little poppets of your obnoxious patients today? I am open to requests.

So they know what a pain in the neck they were being today.

Despite being a proud owner of this cocktail classic -https://www.ebay.com/itm/177294818560 - my own preferences are limited to gin martini, Manhattan, Bourbon with seltzer water over ice and a twist of lemon, and g&t. Thanks to Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, however, my martinis and Manhattans are second to none.

As for your frustrating day, please enjoy your evening and don’t let the bastards get you down!

Don’t worry; I’m not going to try them all. Some call for grapefruit juice, and at least one calls for clam juice. Bleh! Not interested in any of those.

There’s a whole chapter on drinks made with sake. I’ll get to those eventually.

I don’t know if you saw my post about inventing my own cocktail: the Cascade Sunset. It’s basically a vodka and tonic, with an ounce of limoncello added, and a splash of Aperol. You should try it!