BeMused

Yes, I’m messing with the layout again. This layout is from the same people as my previous layout, and was geared towards a Digital Photography community. I liked the color scheme and layout, so I’ve tweaked it a bit (with surprisingly few issues) and have decided to use it for awhile. I might change that photo of the cactus…then again, I might not.

I actually am working on yet another theme, this one created by me. I hope to get it implemented before the years end, but you never know. I want to get a lot of things done before years end, but I doubt a tenth of them will get done. Get to do that whole holiday shopping thing here.

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As a follow up to A Bartender’s Most Hated Drinks, I have the pleasure to present “Eight Things You Should Never Say To Your Bartender“.

#3 and #7 are spot on.

Welcome back to me!

The switch that the box that hosts my sites took a dump awhile back, hence the reason this site has been inaccessible. After that got fixed, the owner of the box took the time to update Apache and PHP…which hopefully means the end of the “too many open files” error I was seeing all the time, which would require me to pester my brother into rebooting Apache. That was happening on a regular basis, and even more often when I was updating files.

So, thanks go to Dave, the owner of the hardware, for updating Apache and PHP and hopefully putting an end to my ‘too many open files’ woes. And to my brother Seth for being patient with my whining and asking every few days for him to reboot the server. You guys really do rock (though I know you’re both sick to death of me).

My brother sent me this link, and word-for-word, this guy is pretty much spot on.

Bartenders’ Most Hated Drinks

Read this. Learn it. Live it.

That is all.

Another overheard at the bar for you all…

We had a group of hairdressers come in the other night, obviously worn out from a long day. They were all dressed in pink shirts with the salon’s name on it, along with a ribbon for breast cancer awareness. They’d been doing a fund-raiser all day and were apparently looking to unwind a bit.

An hour and several drinks later, they were all enjoying themselves and having a good time. I made a point to travel to their end of the bar every twenty minutes or so just to check up on them. I was making the journey down to check on them, and had just reached them and was about to ask if they needed anything when the lady right next to me said in a very loud, clear, and carrying voice, “…and that got her out of blowjobs for a year!”

I spun around on my heel, and turned 180 degrees and walked back towards the other end. I figured if they wanted me, they’d holler. And I’m not sure I wanted to be a part of that particular conversation…

So apparently, Salt Lake County’s public enemy number one is behind bars this morning. How he eluded police is quite a mystery, unless one assumes he never. left. the house.

Click here for the whole article to see what I mean. It’s not like he blends in…

I’ve discovered that as a bartender I tend to hear a lot of conversations about a lot of different things. And some of the things I overhear probably weren’t meant for anyone’s ears but the people involved in the conversation. And some, I just feel the need to share.

So I have created a new category, “Overheard At The Bar”, and I’ll be sharing a few of the choice bits I hear that either make my jaw drop (which I’ll be detailing in a second here), or that just make me laugh.

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