There's no Tiki involved, but it's been operational for a while now.  For
her birthday, one of our friends got Jayna  sign that looks like a surfboard
and has the name Island Girl painted on it.  That's the name of our boat.
Guess that's the name of our bar now too.  For Christmas, a barmaid friend
gave me a for real Budweiser blow up blimp which we'll put up as soon as we
can figure where we like it best.  The bar's been restocked at least twice
and I'm about to stock it again.  Captain Morgans, Dewars Scotch, Cuervo
Gold and Bacardi Rum don't seem to last long.  I suppose it could have
something to do with the fact that I drink all of the above.  Mudslides use
up Bacardi at a phenomenal rate and my capacity for frozen margaritas seems
to have no bounds.  I suspect the act of making them burns off as much
alcohol as drinking them supplies.  If I don't get to the liquor store soon,
I'm going to have to raid the boat's supply.  I'm having trouble keeping
beef in the refrigerator too, but that's Jayna's fault . . . well, mostly
Jayna's fault.

We got word tonight that one of our friends is considering giving us a beer
tap.  I'm going to have to think about saying yes.  I'm not sure we drink
enough beer to warrant keeping a keg on tap and, to be honest, I'm not sure
I want to make it that easy for Jayna.  My Bud Light budget is bad enough as
it is.

My Margaritta flavored snow cones were a big hit at my last party, at least
until I got tired of shaving ice for them.  I'm not sure, but I think there
may be a commercial grade ice machine under my Christmas tree.  I can't
think of anything else Jayna would get me that is that big and that heavy.
Guess I'll have to look for an easier way to get my shaved ice.

Anybody out there ever work a snow cone concession in a fair?  Do they use
shaved ice or crush it with a blender?  Any idea where to get the right
sized scoop to make the snowcones fit the paper cones (I use plastic cones
only because I've not been able to find the paper ones yet.

On Jayna's birthday, December 5, we had dinner at Nami, a local Hibachi
house we like.  Some of our guests had chocolate martinis.  Judging from the
reaction, they must be orgasmic.  I'll be looking for the recipe soon.

Tomorrow, we're getting ready for our Christmas morning breakfast.  Jayna
says we have about 20 people this year.  That's down from the 30 we had last
year and way down from the 50 we had the year before.  50 was too many.  We
didn't have space to breathe, let alone eat.  It's no big deal in the
summer, when people are likely to be in the yard or lake, but 50 people is
too many for inside.  It will be interesting to see how much space we have
now that the patio/bar and table are available for use.  We may bump the
number up again if it looks like we have space.

Cooking for 50 is actually fun, even if we do start quite early.  We've got
the griddles, crock pots, frypans, etc. to handle it without a lot of
trouble, but it does take some planning and advance preparation.  We get the
hash brown casserole ready for the oven the night before.  The orange juice
and champagne go on ice about the same time so there's no delay in preparing
the mimosas (sp?).  Pretty much everything else goes on in the early AM for
a 9:00 breakfast.  For the last few years, we've enlisted one couple to help
with the cooking (bacon fryers, they don't get to touch the Ghoetta (sp?) or
Jayna's sausage gravy.  It's a trick to coordinate everything so that it
comes together at the same time, but practice does make perfect.  I'll have
to ask Jayna how long we've been doing this, but I think we've been at it
for more than 10 years.

Lee

I didn't think it was knocking so much as clanging, but perhaps that
wasn't opportunity. And it wasn't that cold out.

JF

   Except sidemount divers, who believe two short hoses beats a very long
hose.

Curtis

I guess he should have explained who he meant when he said "we".

Never even heard of  "SCUBA Radio"... Sounds like some sort of newbie
thing...

Oh no, not another one of the SCA people!!!  Do a rec.scuba google groups
search on SCA and paintball and you'll understand how that topic was beat to
death by one crossposting troll awhile back... Let's not start it again...
<grin>

Here in rec.scuba, we pride ourselves in having a higher percentage of
a.sholes in our group than in the population at large...

For the most part, we are less concerned with your sexual orientation than
your position on the 2nd Amendment...

Oh and BTW, top-posting is frowned upon around here...

Liza,

I don't give a sh.t what your sexual orientation is.  If we ever meet on
a dive boat, or dive location - hope we share many tanks together.  I
would dive with most of the divers on this group, regardless of their
sexual preference, political beliefs, and how they stand on guns issues.

In any regard have a nice and joyful Holiday Season :-)

Are you hot?

Kimber

You'll pardon the language, or not, but f.ck em if they can't get along.
Life is way to short to worry about a bunch of biggoted a.sholes.

You did here.

Stick around.  If you learn to separate the junk from what is important,
you'll find a lot better information about diving here than you ever will on
Scuba Radio.  Trust me.

True, but you haven't been around long enough to know who is which.  First
impressions don't work particularly well here.

Lee

I've never heard scuba radio, but if it's anything like other radio shows they're
probably far more concerned with ratings than accuracy.

Isn't there some saying about kissing a lot of frogs to find a princess? Finding real
friends can be like that, too. Why would you want to spend time with people who
aren't willing to accept you for who you are?

Especially this group, but you'd probably still have fun diving with most.

Never listened to scuba radio. People are people.
you'll have no more or lesss of a problem with scuba divers, than with any
other activity.

And that could happen regardless of ones orientation.

Pretty much, yeah.

Oh yeah, if you want to fit in, stop top-posting :-)

Dennis

"Dennis (Icarus)" wrote ...

Since my last dive was with Curtis, Lee, and Limey, I'm rather glad it
didn't... <snicker

 But that's not what was said.

 You must be a Democrat, too.
     

                              Popeye          
      The only working atomic bomb platforms the
      Japanese ever had were delivered via airmail.

I guess you can say the same thing about Christians, blacks, latinos,
inner city dwellers, dems/libs, etc...

He's not trying. He's in his "be respectful to women" mode I suppose.

JF

Better a 9mm than an empty hand.

Gonna shoot a 9, a .40, a 10 and a .45 into some gelatin in a few
weeks.  Depending on how many we molds we pour, we have a bunch of
different rounds to try.