{"id":548,"date":"2006-10-08T23:55:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T23:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2006-10-08T23:55:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T23:55:04","slug":"saturdays_senseless_acts_of_de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/saturdays_senseless_acts_of_de\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s Senseless Acts of Debauchery (AKA &#8220;the weekend&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend isn&#8217;t a &#8220;lost weekend&#8221; because I remember it.  But it ranks close.<br \/>\nOne pearl of wisdom that I painfully remembered (around 0330 Sunday AM) was to &#8220;never mix alcohol&#8221;.  That&#8217;s not a ban on mixed drinks; instead it&#8217;s a ban on mixing <em>types<\/em> of alcohol. The rule is to stick to one kind of booze for an evening&#8217;s carousing because mixing will make you hella sick.<br \/>\nIf you drink cocktails, stick with that for the evening.  If you drink beer, best to do that all night.  Same with wine.  But it&#8217;s a very VERY bad idea to drink beer for 6 hours then move over to liquor and beer at the same time!<br \/>\nThis weekend in San Francisco was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetweek.us\">Fleet Week<\/a>.  Except Fleet Week is a bit of a misnomer.  It&#8217;s only five days long this year, but I&#8217;d think that &#8220;Fleet Work Week&#8221; is a bit awkward.  Also tomorrow is a fake holiday, Columbus Day which only the government and the banking industry gets off.  In theory, it&#8217;s a school holiday so kids can check out the ships that are here for &#8220;Fleet Work Week&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe highlight of Fleet Week is the arrival of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueangels.navy.mil\">Blue Angels<\/a>.  Every year, they do the same show with the same stunts and every year it&#8217;s cool!  All last week, it was crappy, cold and cloudy.  Then on Saturday, it got gorgeous.  Blue skies and warm.  Perfect timing yes?<br \/>\nI went over to a friend&#8217;s place to watch the Blue Angels from his roof with a bunch of other people.  Then we watched football and played the &#8220;debate drinking game&#8221; during the Schwarzenegger\/someotherguyrunningforgovernor debate.  Then I went to dinner.  That whole time was about six hours of beer.  One to two an hour.  Then around 2300 or so, my friends and I went down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anu-bar.com\/\">Anu<\/a> down on Sixth Street near Market.  Cool place in a sketchy area.  That&#8217;s when the mixing began.  *shudder*<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu2.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu2-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This, my friends, was a sign of what to drink!!!<\/em><br \/>\nI started with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinness.com\">Guinness<\/a>.  But somehow drum n&#8217; bass (which was being spun by the resident DJ) puts me into the mood for clear drinks.  So I moved over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopinvodka.com\">Chopin<\/a> Martinis.  There were a couple of those.  Then another Guinness showed up when rounds were bought.   Followed by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombay.com\">Sapphire<\/a> Tonic and other drinks\/shots.  All served up by a very kawaii bartender who hails from Eastern Europe.  She just got hired a few weeks back!  Must visit out there soon&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu1.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu1-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Hmm. I think i take better photos inebriated&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nAll of this wrecked me around 0330 while in the four-point stance against the wall in the Denny&#8217;s men&#8217;s room.  At least I know that my aim is good&#8230;and I didn&#8217;t drive.  And the next morning, there was Country Fried Steak and biscuits in a styrofoam take-out in the fridge.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu3.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu3.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/anu3-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Anu<br \/>\n43 Sixth Street<br \/>\nSan Francisco 94103<br \/>\n415-543-3505<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.anu-bar.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend isn&#8217;t a &#8220;lost weekend&#8221; because I remember it. But it ranks close. One pearl of wisdom that I painfully remembered (around 0330 Sunday AM) was to &#8220;never mix alcohol&#8221;. That&#8217;s not a ban on mixed drinks; instead it&#8217;s a ban on mixing types of alcohol. The rule is to stick to one kind &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/saturdays_senseless_acts_of_de\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday&#8217;s Senseless Acts of Debauchery (AKA &#8220;the weekend&#8221;)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-8Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}