Well, more like a sprinkling of new on top of the same old, same old. That’s just the way I roll.
Kicked off the morning with the Sweet Saturday Stroll, handing out goodies to the kids in the surrounding neighborhoods.
I did a four-minute video clip of one section of our stroll.
Back home and glancing out the window, there was smoke on Black Rock:
So, by now, you are probably thinking, WTF? There’s nothing different here. Well, when we ventured into town at beer o’clock, we went somewhere we’d never been before: the new Red Bar. Or, more accurately, the new location of Red Bar. It occupies the space that was formerly the home of Blue Butterfly, a bar I reviewed here. All the things I liked about Blue Butterfly are still present at Red Bar, but inside, they also added a dance stage. Well, my thing is sitting outside and watching the world go by, and that’s just what we did yesterday.
So, despite it being our first visit, we felt right at home. We both knew several of the waitresses working there now, and Swan bought them some food from a passing vendor. I chipped in some lady drinks, and we let the good times roll. Perhaps the best review I can render is reporting that Swan wanted to stay for a SECOND glass of wine. That almost never happens. She said she was enjoying the outdoor vibe and the music.
Sticking with our open-air desires and seldom-visited theme, we did our nightcap at Cheap Charlies.
It was a lovely Saturday night out on the town. We will definitely be adding Red Bar to our list of frequently visited venues.
From the LTG archives is a post from January 2006 written on the occasion of my one-year anniversary in Korea. I’d signed up for a two-year tour, so I was thinking I was halfway home. Except it didn’t turn out that way. Just another tale in The Story of My Life.
Today’s YouTube video strikes a little too close to home. I feel estranged from my family back home, and from my perspective, they’ve turned their backs on me. Perhaps they see the opposite. Either way, it hurts.
And here I go again:
And there you have it. Back to normal today, but I’m okay with that. I’ll share the details tomorrow. Y’all come back now, hear?
Lemon cheesecake looks aight yo
re: the video on families
I love the guy’s mispronunciation of “chasm.”
It’s a sad thing for families to fall apart when someone goes off to live in a foreign country, but I bet that, in most cases, the “chasm” was merely revealed, not created, by the move. Extreme circumstance reveal all sorts of flaws and fissures in relationships that seem, on the surface, to be perfectly solid. I discovered this during Mom’s brain cancer. Crisis reveals character.
That bakery looks pretty damn tempting, and there’s none of the usual frou-frou bullshit you’d find in a Japanese or Korean bakery.
Sorry— “extreme circumstances,” plural.
Kev, yes it was a surprise to be ghosted but maybe it shouldn’t have been. People do tend to show you the true nature of their character once they decide you are no longer of any value to them.
I tried one of the items from that bakery and it was dry and disappointing. I decided it wasn’t worth the calories and discarded it halfway through.
Alas. I guess looks can be deceiving.