As for my first cocktail I made Blood and Sand. It’s an Austrian drink with a whisky base.
30ml Scotch whisky
30ml orange juice
30ml cherry brandy
30 sweet vermouth
Mix all together in a mixer with ice and strain. Decorate with orange peels or something like that. I suggest to this recipe adding more orange juice to kill that [...]
Jul
29
Blood and Sand
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Jul
29
Cocktails
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I have a new-found passion: cocktails. It all started out buying a shaker just for the hell of it. Then the Grandmother came over from Canada with her sister and I mixed Malibu Coconut rum with some sort of juice and mixed it with ice. My grandmother said it was good and suggested I buy [...]
Jul
22
I don’t drink energy drinks even though I’ve given it a thought and wanted to try one. But something in my gut tells me that if a little silver can is powerful enough to give you as much energy as they show on the commercials, it can’t be safe. But hey, that’s just my thing-a-ma-jig [...]
Jul
20
LOT Sucks Too!
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My grandma flew from Canada to Warsaw and then had a smaller plane from Warsaw to Szczecin. On that plane they took the hand baggage from the passengers because apparently the small planes don’t have enough room in the cabin to store them. So my grandmother gave her baggage to the baggage people and went [...]
Jul
19
Surgeons losing Sponges
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Electronic chip to keep track of sponges during surgeries.
This is interesting and to a certain extent a little over the top to put circuits in sponges in order to keep count of every one that goes inside a patient. At the surgery dep. here, the number of sponges or instruments that go in a patient [...]
Jul
17
Pools are a Rip-off Here
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I wanted to post something about how the pools here are a ripoff. 2 pools were closed due to renovations (who renovates a pool in the summer?!?). One pool wasn’t used anymore and another was filled out, meaning it didn’t exist anymore even though my map clearly showed that it did. The one pool that [...]
Jul
14
Our Big Storm
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We’re having an awesome storm right now. Check out the video from the Video page accessible on the right from the sidebar menu. Sorry about filming sideways, I’m so used to picture taking that it slipped my mind that the camera can’t reposition the picture when taking vertical shots.
By the way, YouTube.com is so cool. [...]
Jul
12
donât know why. It just seems like that. We were having an awesome conversation and there she was singing some song by some artist (Christina Aigulera [something like that]) and I wanted to show her all my new pictures on this blog (to be more specific, the ever growing collection of little images that are [...]
Jul
3
Emergency Godfather
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I got to be the big G (odfather) at my g/f’s, brother’s daughter’s baptism. A quick decision had to be made as the initial person couldn’t make it. Usually the godparents are one each from the two sides of the family, so it was a little different as I’m not exactly family. An interesting experience. [...]