Ronstar
Moderator Emeritus
An excellent beverage for excellent news!
Sent from my iPhone .using Early Retirement .//82339)
Sent from my iPhone .using Early Retirement .//82339)
Just as good.
Got a phone call that went something like:
"Hi, I'm Soandso from Doctor X's office. We just got the pathology report on your biopsy."
Pause. Objectively, about half a second. Subjectively, a week and a half.
"Everything was negative."
I felt that I deserved a reward.
...I felt that I deserved a reward.
I've been throwing mine away. Last time I had someone over who would appreciate my opening a Westy, well, he took the cap home! Him asking for it was worth $9Must be pretty good news... I googled it and someone on Ebay is offering just the cap for $8.99.
Beer Bottle Crown Cap St Sixtus Trappist Westvleteren 12 Quad Belgium | eBay
Your news is worth celebrating, but I think I see a "17" on that cap, meaning, it would have been better if aged some more. That's just the beer snob in me talking I've got a few in that general vintage that I'm saving, but who knows, if I get some good news like yours, I might have to crack one before it's time.Just had a piece of very unexpected, very good news, so I'm celebrating with a special bottle of beer.
Some here will recognize this cap and realize that my news was very good indeed.
I think I see a "17" on that cap, meaning, it would have been better if aged some more.
You're right. "Better" is not it, since that's in the eye of the beholder. I tend to like the melding that goes on after some age. They can get too old, but I'm usually not that patient! I had a fresh St Bernardus abt 12 recently and really enjoyed that as a way to spare a westy. But then again, I had nothing specific to celebrate.Good eye!
But I beg to differ. I've had plenty of experience with this beer, everywhere from a week after release up to 8 years later. I was a bit surprised to find that the fresh stuff was every bit as good as the aged. It changes continually and is always different, but "better" is not a word I would use. Great at any age.
Thinking about Walt34's five pound chocolate bar (although he still hasn't bitten on the ten pounder, which is obviously twice as good), and then DW comes home from the store today with this.
A woman like that deserves roses:
Thinking about Walt34's five pound chocolate bar (although he still hasn't bitten on the ten pounder, which is obviously twice as good), and then DW comes home from the store today with this. She said it had my name on it. About the only possible improvement I can see would be if it were dark chocolate instead of milk, but hey, what's not to like about bacon flavored chocolate?
Got a haircut this morning and then took the young wife out to lunch. After lunch, we stopped in the Goodwill and I got a couple of records. Right now, I'm listening to Jimmy Buffett's Living and Dying in 3/4 Time .
Stuff like this is "gold" for us old timers. Gettin' hard to keep up with today, so we take our pleasures where we find 'em.