Hey, congrats to Jenny on showing some character.
Is Dogfish the brewery that had the night as Ras Dashen?
― Eazy, Saturday, 22 September 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
No, that was Two Brothers.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 September 2007 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I paid $11.99 for a six-pack of 60 Minute IPA last night.
I wonder what the food is gonna be like? I would probably go.
― Jesse, Saturday, 22 September 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
11.99 is high. I think it is 8.99 or 9.99 at whole foods right now.
― Jeff, Saturday, 22 September 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I love beer. I love dinner. I love beer dinners.
― Jenny, Saturday, 22 September 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Does anybody have a good recipe for lemon bars?
― Jenny, Saturday, 22 September 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Happy Birthday, Jeff.
― dan m, Saturday, 22 September 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Happy BD, J.
A guy I work with makes outstanding lemon bars, but I don't have the recipe. So, no.
― Jesse, Saturday, 22 September 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bankersball.com/images/wifey.jpg
Is this fer real?
― Jesse, Saturday, 22 September 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
happy birthday, Jeff! yay for Jenny's character!
― horseshoe, Saturday, 22 September 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
There was a New Holland Brewery (makers of Mad Hatter, Lucid Kolsch, etc.) beer dinner at the Fireside Grill recently that we thought about going to but didn't.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 September 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I love beer dinners.
― Jeff, Saturday, 22 September 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
All your beer dinners, give them to me.
They belong to me.
You guys ... I didn't fuck up the GRE. :)
― n/a, Saturday, 22 September 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't have the scores for the written part yet, obviously, but my total for the math and verbal section was the exact same as my old SAT scores, and the section scores were almost exactly the same (+10 on one, -10 on the other). SO JAZZED.
― n/a, Saturday, 22 September 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
You know what this means...
― dan m, Saturday, 22 September 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
TIME TO START DRINKIN
(I say this because I am stuck at work again)
There will be drinking later. Too busy right now.
― n/a, Saturday, 22 September 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
HIGH FIVES NICK
― river wolf, Saturday, 22 September 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Yay Nick!
― Jesse, Saturday, 22 September 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i do, lemme find it and i'll email it to you.
― chicago kevin, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
recipe sent.
― chicago kevin, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
woohoo nick!
― JuliaA, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, congrats, dude.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Also: did anyone ever lend me a copy of Colson Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt? I just found it on my bookshelf and I have no idea where it came from.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
So excited to go to the game tomorrow.
― Jeff, Saturday, 22 September 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The game going on right now is great, are you watching it?
― n/a, Saturday, 22 September 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't get a perfect GRE score or anything, by the way, but I did significantly better than I did on any of the practice tests and better than I was thinking I would do and good enough for me to feel like I don't have to take it again, unless I somehow did terribly on the written part (which I don't think I did).
One of the dumb things about the GRE is that in addition to the verbal, math, and writing sections, they will often (maybe always) include an extra section of verbal or math questions, which are "experimental" questions they are trying out. They don't count towards your score, but you don't know which of the two verbal or math sections was the noncounted experimental section, so you have to try hard on both. So I had to do two math sections, which sucked, because I was getting pretty worn out by the end. Fortunately, the first math section I did, which seemed easy, must have been the one that counted. But I still think it's lame to make people do extra work for no reason.
― n/a, Saturday, 22 September 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes
― Jeff, Saturday, 22 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know why I'm being coy, I got 700/800 on verbal and 700/800 on math for a total of 1400/1600. Probably could have done a little better on verbal but the questions got pretty tough, and I did much better on the math than I was expecting.
― n/a, Saturday, 22 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The game tomorrow should be great, the Cubs are kind of on fire right now.
― n/a, Saturday, 22 September 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
HB to Jeff!
And really awesome about the GRE! I know you were worried.
I never doubted Jenny's character for a second. :)
― kenan, Saturday, 22 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy moly, Nick! Are you looking at schools in Chicago or elsewhere?
― Eazy, Saturday, 22 September 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I am moving everything I wrote in high school and college from my old PC to my iMac so I can finally throw out the PC. It's running on Windows 95. Hilarious.
― jaymc, Sunday, 23 September 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Drew Daniel responds re: "Do You Party?":
The title is blatant ripoff of the title of the first house record that I owned while in highschool, Royal House's "Can You Party?" and . . .
it is also a crystal meth reference, since "partying, must share expenses" and similar personal sex ad lingo tends to refer to tweekers. Since my band name is itself a tweeker reference I thought I ought to continue.
But soon The Soft Pink Truth is going to mutate into The Soft Pink Tube.
-- Drew Daniel, Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:31 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― jaymc, Sunday, 23 September 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
omg congratulations, Nick!!!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 23 September 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I am adding tons of photos to my flickr account. So far this may be my favorite. This is the first time I met Jenny and Jeff.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/1425889624_386ca442ab.jpg
― kenan, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
October 2004. Just about 3 years ago.
― kenan, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
That was our first date.
― Jeff, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Not mine and Jenny's, ours collectively.
― Jeff, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I can remember if it was then or a later time on Nick's porch when I was expressing regret for something I'd said online, and you said something like, "Don't apologize! You're such an asshole! It's great!" You are the first and last person to ever express that sentiment.
― kenan, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I CAN'T remember, obv.
It must have been later, I think I mostly talked to Jenny that first time I met you guys.
― kenan, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
You're both so damn cute in that photo, though! Jenny with a positively adorable little bob haircut, you without a neck beard.
Those were different times. Nobody was married then. :)
― kenan, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaymc remembers this one, I'm sure:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1239/1425004025_0b1eace3d2.jpg
― kenan, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Same day, btw.
― kenan, Sunday, 23 September 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Jenny, you just have such a great grin. If I saw you somewhere, that alone would make me want to know you. I like girls who grin.
― Laurel, Sunday, 23 September 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link