Friday Night Lemon-Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

I love you all...

[Newest Reality]

1. What...

is the answer to the meaning of life, the Universe and everything?

[Aristus]

2. Forty-Two!

[sprinkleeninow]

6. ...

[real Cannabis calm]

47. DOES EVERYONE THINK MUSIC SHOULD BE IN THE LOUNGE?

[Newest Reality]

8. Correct!

LOL!

[TEB]

3. You sir were one handsome soldier

Saw your picture in veterans forum ,

[Aristus]

5. Very nice...

Thank you...



I actually had that portrait made privately around six months after I ETS'd. I didn't like any of my official military portraits. So it was nice to have a chance to tell the photographer "Yeah, I like it." or "No, I don't." It helped that the photographer was my roommate at the time.

[TEB]

42. My service picture

Well I probably broke the camera at benning

[sprinkleeninow]

16. How perfectly wunnerful when one gets a snappy service of any kind these days? 😊

[Aristus]

20. Deep Eddy, out of Austin, Texas.

Straight up...

[Aristus]

32. Thank you.

You, too...

[sprinkleeninow]

17. He be a looker. 😍

[Aristus]

21. ...

[sprinkleeninow]

24. Now ya got me

ing. And I do not know why. Mb a hot flash. 😤

[Aristus]

25. HA!

[sprinkleeninow]

4. 'Cyber' love you back. 💛

[Aristus]

7. Hey! You made it!

[sprinkleeninow]

14. Would that be a mystical positive vibe wish coming my way?

I didn't make it yet, but trying my damnedest. [You so sweet.]

My other half dropped dead in March early in the a.m. Cardiac arrest. I'm experiencing delayed grief and it's sucking. Some on here were apprised soon after, and I am doing my best to refrain from reiterating.

Had a last few particularly bad days. I'm running the gamut of emotions. I don't believe I will avail myself of any 'grief' counseling groups. I'm industrial strength DIYer. I simply can't handle all physical chores, straightening out financial account errors, you name it what is coming down the pike at me.

What is the meaning of life? To be and do. And '42'?

Forgive me for laying this on you. 😔

[Aristus]

18. Very much so.

I can't even imagine the pain you must be going through.


42 as the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is a joke from the landmark science-fiction comedy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

[sprinkleeninow]

22. 42. It rang a bell, but I couldn't quite place it.

Appreciate your kindness.

DU is one sustaining something that keeps me propped up.

[Aristus]

23. Me too.

DU has kept me going, through good times and bad, since 2001.

I joined a week after 9/11/2001, having lurked since May or so of that year.

I can barely remember what life was like before then.

The 90's seem like an idyllic dream...

[sprinkleeninow]

27. Heh. I also joined in the spring of 2002 post the 'mad cow' boy's ill gotten installation.

Then '03 my mom had medical emergency and we got her up with us. I read, but couldn't post much. I signed on with a screen name other than this one. Left that behind and cooked up another. I could've signed in again with admin assist but was too lazy.

I can't recall how I found DU, but thankful I did. Brothers and sisters in humanity of like mind and of one accord. It saved me and continues to.

[Aristus]

29. Definitely.

I remember key-word searches like 'anti-Bush'. And DU is one of the sites that popped up. It changed my life...

[sprinkleeninow]

31. I corrected the year. It was after 9/11. I read my head off regarding it

and other available information. You know, 'What Really Happened', the documentary 'In Plane Sight', and like that. I immersed myself. God...

[Aristus]

33. You're more courageous than I...

I can't watch or read anything 9/11-related.

It hurts too much.

Our country changed for the worse that day. And we've never recovered...

[sprinkleeninow]

38. I wrote good night, but one last word.

That horrific attack still is unthinkable. It will never ever go away from memories. Mb recede some, but never vanish completely.

We do have one another in what is and in what is to come...

[Aristus]

39. And that's the reason I haven't jumped out a high window.

Not as long as there's hope...

[Heartstrings]

9. What is your biggest "fear"?

Mine's "infinity"....don't even go there....freaks me out bigly!

[Aristus]

11. Drowning.

Or any other form of death in which one can see the inevitable as it is happening, and is unable to prevent it.

Like Julius Caesar, I want a sudden death.

If it has to be a prolonged death, let it be in my bed, surrounded by my loved ones, at a very advanced age...

[backtoblue]

12. Have a sip for me!

On meds from my car wreck and can't have any boxed wine for a while😢

[Aristus]

13. I will...

Get better soon...

[backtoblue]

15. I'm getting better every day

A head on collision and a tiny convertible roll over in less than a year... I think the universe is trying to tell me something. Gonna light a pinner and ask her...

[Aristus]

19. The universe is telling you that you're tough, and you got this.

[TexasTowelie]

26. I'm taking a break to move to the fridge.

Another Smirnoff with Ice Green Apple for me.

Now for my question. In all of your educational endeavors, which course meant the most to you? Egads that I'm asking you to think on a Friday night after you consumed libations.

[Aristus]

28. I took a course in Anthropology back in 1997.

It changed my thinking about chimpanzees.

And confirmed my love of gorillas.

[sprinkleeninow]

34. I really wish that I could discipline myself into becoming non-carnivorous.

Anthropology sounds cool.
See, you answered truly and speedily under the 🥃circumstances.

Peace-filled nite to you and all..💞

[Aristus]

35. Good night.

[TexasTowelie]

36. It's good to see you react so quickly.

Obviously that anthropology class meant a lot to you since you recalled it in less than a minute.

[Aristus]

37. I'm currently ugly-crying to videos like this one:

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40. Saving for later. I can't weep no more tonite... 💙

[Aristus]

41. Good night...

[Worried senior]

44. I did too.

[cilla4progress]

43. Figures ...

I love anthropology, too! I think it was all the time I spent in museums growing up!

I enjoyed a Basil margarita tonight. Tried one?

[Aristus]

45. Never.

Sounds wonderful.

Got the recipe?

[cilla4progress]

46. I don't dare ask the local restaurant

for its secret recipe.

Over here on the dry side. Ever make it over?