Recently declassified: the atomic martini

Developed at Los Alamos in the 1950's, the recipe for the world's driest martini.

Ingredients:
One bottle fine vermouth
One bottle gin
One hydrogen bomb
Martini glasses

Set up hydrogen bomb according to instructions. Place vermouth bottle on top of hydrogen bomb.

Stand at appropriate distance and measure gin into martini glasses.

Detonate hydrogen bomb according to instructions, thereby creating cloud of vermouth vapor. Waft martini glasses into the air to attract essence of vermouth.

Enjoy.

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The snow is coming ... it's coming...

Kid brother is in DC with a lady friend, caught by the snow, uncertain whether he'll make it back to New York today or tomorrow. The weather reports show snow approaching NYC, gonna be a major influx of white coming down tonight and tomorrow.

Just in time for me to get over my bug. *sigh*

Amusing note: picked up the New York Times when I woke up, and they had pictures on the front page of protest rallies around the world. Front and center, in the middle of the crowd, was a man who may or may not have been my dad. Picture was a little too fuzzy to tell for certain, and because everyone was in cold-weather gear (it gets mean in the City when the wind picks up), all there was to go on was the face.

I like to think it was him.

My dad, on the front page of the New York Times. Because of something he believes in.

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