I think I'll have an Irish coffee for breakfast
I was inexplicably slow at work tonight; finished almost an hour later than usual. When I left to go home, the windshield was iced over; pouring water on it didn't help much, and I drove home looking through a 6-inch hole in the ice, and parked by sense of smell. When I got home, the computer froze, and since I had to kill everything anyway, I finally updated ZoneAlarm. When I rebooted, it first wouldn't do anything -- hung at the "okay, gettin' ready to load Windows" screen. I power-cycled it, got the same result. Repeat several times. Finally, it booted Windows, but without any of my settings -- the factory interface. I did some meddling, threatened it with Mjolnir Jr. (my four-pound engineer's sledge), and it finally not only booted to windows, but my Luckies wallpaper came up (Luckies as in "scanned cigarette label" not superlatively-with-a-typo clovers and horseshoes lucky).
You know what? Screw the coffee. I'll take the Jameson neat.
Edit to include some research I did for a comment to daowajan:
Does the Irish liquor have an e? I know Canadian doesn't, and I think Scotch is the only other e-less one, but I have to look it up. Dammit, I'm going to end up browsing Wikipedia all day and not get any sleep.
The generic word for "Jameson &c." has an e.
According to the BATFE (that should be the name of a store, not a government agency), the American stuff is spelled the same as the Scottish (with the other spelling allowed because of tradition), but the manufacturers all use the latter. Helpful reminder: if the country of origin's name has an e, it's whiskey, Wales and New Zealand excepted; no e in the country, no e in the liquor. Of course, the Welsh and the Kiwis are generally contrary bastards, so I'm not surprised.
Paraphrased from rue-deday: You know, reading my Journal you might get the impression I drink a lot. I do.
Edit for random Wiki link chain, in reverse of the order I clicked: Guglielmo "I invented radio and ttly had teh buttsecks w/Tesla" Marconi was John Jameson's great-grandson. Ol' Jack Jimson there, a Scot, had a son who married another Scot, and together Jameson & son bought out one of her family's distilleries in Dublin.
You know what? Screw the coffee. I'll take the Jameson neat.
Edit to include some research I did for a comment to daowajan:
Does the Irish liquor have an e? I know Canadian doesn't, and I think Scotch is the only other e-less one, but I have to look it up. Dammit, I'm going to end up browsing Wikipedia all day and not get any sleep.
The generic word for "Jameson &c." has an e.
According to the BATFE (that should be the name of a store, not a government agency), the American stuff is spelled the same as the Scottish (with the other spelling allowed because of tradition), but the manufacturers all use the latter. Helpful reminder: if the country of origin's name has an e, it's whiskey, Wales and New Zealand excepted; no e in the country, no e in the liquor. Of course, the Welsh and the Kiwis are generally contrary bastards, so I'm not surprised.
Paraphrased from rue-deday: You know, reading my Journal you might get the impression I drink a lot. I do.
Edit for random Wiki link chain, in reverse of the order I clicked: Guglielmo "I invented radio and ttly had teh buttsecks w/Tesla" Marconi was John Jameson's great-grandson. Ol' Jack Jimson there, a Scot, had a son who married another Scot, and together Jameson & son bought out one of her family's distilleries in Dublin.