The Everything Drawer - Everyone has one, right? (post anything - within the rules)

Mentions of hot weather libations flashed me back to college and something called a “pink lady,” which I recalled involved a blender, a can of frozen pink lemonade, vodka and ice cubes. Sweet-sour vodka slushees.
Lo and behold - there is actually a cocktail called a Pink Lady. These days for me it’s mostly wine, the occasional beer with spicy food, and a finger of single malt or bourbon here and there, but these hot days may drive me to get brain freeze with a batch of these.There are both vodka and gin-based versions.

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Capt MJ said:
Mentions of hot weather libations flashed me back to college and something called a “pink lady,” which I recalled involved a blender, a can of frozen pink lemonade, vodka and ice cubes. Sweet-sour vodka slushees.
Lo and behold - there is actually a cocktail called a Pink Lady. These days for me it’s mostly wine, the occasional beer with spicy food, and a finger of single malt or bourbon here and there, but these hot days may drive me to get brain freeze with a batch of these.There are both vodka and gin-based versions.

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I just want to do a swan dive off the rim
 
Capt MJ said:
Yowzers.
Looks like a nice shady deck area there. Time for a safety stand-down, some adult beverages and a tactical solutions discussion.
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Yep; a couple of wooden rockers hiding back there for the purpose and I'm sure that will be the plan when I get home from work. Might take 2 or 3 to decide on the best "fix".
 
I have to laugh everytime I scrole down the page and see the reference to the "Everything Drawer." I had a "junk drawer" in my desk growing up, and it had everything and anything ...toy soldiers, hacky sacks, baseballs, flashlights, pen knives, etc. Now it seems I have more, specialized junk drawers -- I have one for electronic stuff -- I have more charging cables than I know what to do with; and my bike drawer is classic - tubes, little pieces of bikes, GPS units, riding glasses, etc.
 
When it comes to bourbon I used to be a confirmed Makers Mark consumer, for it's smoothness.

DS's first name is Russell. Looking through the Bourbon section in a store one day I ran across a bottle of Russell's Reserve. I figured I had to try it. Its a Wild Turkey product with a little bite to it that I enjoy. It's my go to when I can find it. Woodford Reserve is pretty good as well.

When I take my annual fishing trip to Canada I always bring a bottle of cognac along with my bottle of bourbon. It's always at least a VSOP. I like Remy best. On my last trip I spent some extra bucks on a bottle of XO. That was tasty.

A final cognac related story. On a business trip I stayed at a hotel in South Lake, Texas. The bar in this place had at least 16 foot ceilings, if not higher. I saw a bottle of Louis XIII cognac on the very top shelf. This stuff is older than dirt. I asked the barkeep what it cost and he told me $75.00 a glass. Nor for some reason I didn't like this guy. He just rubbed me the wrong way. So as expensive as it was, I made him get the ladder and climb up there to get it just to be a pain in his butt. The stuff went down like butter.... so so smooth. So it was a good night in more ways than one. What the hell, you only live once.
 
Lagavulin 16 is my go-to single malt, followed closely by Laphroaig 10.

Not much of a bourbon guy, but I did try several a year ago, and decided that Woodford Reserve proved to be consistently the best in my humble opinion.
 
Rear Admiral Darin Via has assumed command of Naval Medical Forces Atlantic. That probably doesn’t mean much to anybody including me except Via was one of my A school students in the mid-80s. He was a SAM who came in during the summer for A school then back to college. He obviously made the best of his education benefit. He is an anesthesiologist by trade and was most recently on the OPNAV staff and before that the commander of Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Surely he credits me with getting his career off to a spectacular start.

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Naval Medical Forces Atlantic Conducts Change of Command

Naval Medical Forces Atlantic (MEDLANT) conducted its change of command ceremony on July 1, in order to preserve a time-honored Navy tradition while observing social distancing and health and safety protocols in the time of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID 19).
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My Dad got remarried right before I turned 16. He bought her this car and she drove it for a couple of months and decided it was too low and hard to drive. He couldn't sell it without taking a big hit, so happy Birthday to me. You should have seen the Trooper's face when I took my driving test, but I parallel parked it like a boss. I got a job to pay for the personalized tag, gas, insurance and tickets. In later years, we both questioned his sanity in giving me that car.
 

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Tesla is now worth more than Ford, General Motors, Toyota, and Fiat/Chrysler COMBINED, even though those companies sell more cars in three weeks than Tesla sells in a year.

Bam. The pandemic means nothing to Tesla's share price.
 
THParent said:
We should all post photos of our everything drawers. I don't even know what's in mine, completely. I usually just open it to get scissors or a pre-printed mailing label. There's rubber bands, binder clips, batteries, pennies, paper clips, and probably a hundred other things.
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Here’s my everything drawer. Junk drawer. The Dad’s Tools kit was given to me by my son when he was in 2nd grade. They had that thing at school where kids buy stuff for their parents. It has usable screw drivers and pliers and I use it often. One day a few years later he saw me get it out to work on a Doo-Dad of some sort. He said, “Dang, you actually use that?” What dad wouldn’t I told him. The rest is the usual junk drawer items like curved Kelly hemostats, a ring cutter, and a troll doll. That thing has survived several moves in almost three decades.

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