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in other news, i was up with evie since 4 a.m. and i am very tired

Well tomorrow is Saturday and I will be busy and not on the internet much so you will get your anniversary benediction today and you will like it.

Tell that kid to sleep in later.

she usually sleeps til like 5:30 or 6 but we're trying to get her to go to bed without having a bottle and it's messing stuff up

went to a bday party at barrelhouse flat last night
ordered the olive plate, it was FUCKING DELICIOUS and i ate about 1000 olives of many varieties
drank 2 drinks (a bit much, but it was the last day of the month and the year for me) and failed to eat anything else
slept
have just started to feel partially normal
stomach transplant pls

happy anniversary jammerfamily!

I have drank hard liquor and eaten nothing but olives (during the martini phase in my late-mid-20s) many a time and it is almost never a good idea. I hope you feel better soon.

i don't know why i thought that was a good idea
it really seemed very pleasant at the time

Because you were drunk!

It doesn't sound as fun when you put it like that.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mince-pie-the-real-american-pie/Content?oid=1267308

Maybe it's just because my family are mincemeat pie stalwarts, but this was really super interesting.

Mincemeat pie is the best thing.

Jammermen: happy anniversary.

Nick: I had a dream about you. You and I and many of our friends were visiting Baltimore, where we attended a punk/drag sort of event at a bar. You were putting up fliers everywhere and we needed to change clothes but there were no private places and the attendees ridiculed and shamed us and when I looked at myself, I noticed that our clothes were covered in piss and shit from the floor.

If anyone has heard at least 50 of the nominated tracks, you should vote in this:
review of nominations and VOTING for (very nebulously defined) ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

Deadline was yesterday, but I think it's being extended.

Oh shoot, I hope so! I've been working on a ballot but not following the thread.

I love to play my bongos in the morning.

It's a beautiful day and I am wearing shorts (jorts).

also you are not at the troom BONUS

What? You guys, malort is kinda good

I had it for the first time in a while when Z S visited a few months ago and was surprised at how non-disgusting it was.

You guys are just two-fisted drinkers, that's all.

The first shot that we had w/ ZS was okay, but I remember the second one being worse.

otm it's cumulative

Some place called Nisei Lounge had a Malort night a week or so ago, that's when I knew the stuff had officially jumped the shark. I'm on to flavored spirytus and akavit now. *sniff*

Akavit is actually like a 'good' version of Malort imo, some of the same botanicals but a rye flavor instead of the bitterness.

Jesse, I hate to break it to you but I went to The Marketplace for the first time today and I kind of liked it. If I'm on foot, I'm just as likely to shop there as TJ's, depending on what I need to buy (if we have a car, we'll probably still go to Jewel since it is cheaper, although a price comparison of the handful of items I bought to prices on Peapod comes out about even).

Also they carry Biz, which is my favorite laundry additive.

We can talk about this on the phone tomorrow. We shouldn't be putting stuff about the Mark3t Pl@ce one wr1t1ng.

Two words, btw. But they spell "Foodstore" as one word. And their stickers misspell Diversey.

It occurs to me that you first came to The Market Place after their significant improvements in response to TJ's opening. They are not as shitful as they used to be, and I am holding a grudge, but they are still not great. Also, Peapod is expensive as hell!

Worth it.

That's not the point in question.

I don't care.

Nick, did you enjoy my dream about you?

Is this a popular song? A client mentioned it to me last week and I've never heard it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVy_XDCd9c

i don't know that song.

that is an interesting dream, jesse.

i'm home sick today with some kind of shitty headache. i've had periodic bad headaches for most of my adult life but they seem to be getting worse as i get older, i used to be able to take a few ibuprofen and power through the day but this morning i just felt so gross that i had to call in. my mom gets migraines so i wonder if these are related - they're not as bad as her migraines but they're definitely worse than a standard headache.

we went up to lincoln square mayfest on saturday, expecting your standard neighborhood festival with fried food, music, games, etc. but nope it was basically 1,000 people standing in the blocked-off street in the direct sun drinking giant mugs of german beer. no music, no attractions, nothing but a dense crowd of drinkers. it was not fun getting the stroller through that.

prom nite

If only there were some kind of, I don't know, foundation you could call about your headaches.

haaaaa

I think festivals in lincoln square are always like that i.e. they suck. midsommar fest is next weekend in andersonville which is usually fairly nice. xpost

Seriously though, that sounds awful and I hope you feel better.

i got some OTC migraine pills at CVS and they are helping

R was pretty excited about the mayfest on saturday and we went up there with the intent of checking it out, but upon seeing the crowd we turned south, went to Glunz's and Resi's Bierstube, and had our own little fest in their beer gardens complete with shade, seats, a cool breeze, and pretzels. There were some other people who had gotten the hell away from the fest this way too and we commiserated about how we'd hoped for something more.

xp - aspirin with caffeine? is there another type of otc migraine medication that went on the market recently? just wondering -- i haven't even considered otc as an option because i couldn't sleep with the caffeine in those.

aspirin + acetaminophen + caffeine

right

migraines are a problem, i hope maybe you just had a caffeine headache!

Yeh, I've always thought Mayfest was disppointing, too. T0m@s and friends enjoyed it b/c they like to polka.

don't think it's migraines exactly, because migraines are pretty rare among men and they don't seem quite as debilitating as true migraines, but maybe something migraine-esque? there is mild nausea and light/sound sensitivity involved too. or maybe it is a caffeine headache and i'm just really wussy.

No, caffeine headaches are not that bad.

if you want to talk about migraines offboard, i can do that (but i don't like to talk about medical things here if i can remember not to)

this is a little off topic but tbh i have always been a little confused about what "wussy" means. most of the time people call someone or themselves a wuss, they're being a bully, right? (to others or themselves). is anyone actually a verifiable wuss? wtf is a wuss?

i figured it was like "nag" -- something people only call each other to negatively frame unwanted behavior, in this case "reminding"

wuss is a portmanteau of wimp and pussy. It means somebody's being cowardly or weak.

I mean, it's not a great word bc of the association of female genitalia with weakness and the policing of masculinity etc etc etc but I don't think it's got the same issues as nag (which I agree w/ you 100% on that one).

i know what it means technically

i guess i was just thinking about what a completely subjective concept it is -- like any adjective, i guess, but relative weakness/strength is measured in so many different ways that it's just an interesting concept to me, i guess