So, who likes drinks with tonic water? We have some open containers we need to finish off. Who would like to come over some Tuesday or Thursday night in the next two weeks for some drinks and conversation?
So, who likes drinks with tonic water? We have some open containers we need to finish off. Who would like to come over some Tuesday or Thursday night in the next two weeks for some drinks and conversation?
Ooh! Me! Me!
(But you knew that 🙂
I like tonic water mixed with stuff like orange juice or lemonade. I suspect I’d also dig something in the way of tonic + lemon/lime juice + chambord… (I was just sipping chambord-ized raspberry lemonade a couple nights ago. Very refreshing on a too-warm evening…)
Is there going to be any gin to go with that tonic water?
There is some gin, yes.
Hmmmm…
Sounds like a good deal then;)
um… sure!
I’ve never actually been to where you live.
I am quite fond of gin & tonic. Perhaps too fond. I don’t know that I can get all the way down there for a drink, though. 🙂 I want a new, different Bay Area with an extra dimension that makes all these seemingly-far-away parts of it easy to reach by bicycle.
heh. it’s funny, it only just occurred to me the the reason that I keep encountering people in the city and in oakland and berkely who think of the south bay as “far away” despite that I live in the south bay and don’t think of the city or oakland and berkeley as “far away” is because I have a car.
Even people with cars think of the South Bay as “far away”. I do, but I get there a lot because I like driving, as long as I can do it at a reasonable speed. But distance in the Bay Area is anisotropic – as one leaves San Francisco or Oakland for the South Bay, stuff gets further and further apart, which makes it feel like you’re making less progress with time, but leaving the South Bay, stuff keeps coming more and more closely together, making it feel like your progress is accelerating.
That, and San Franciscans are weird. They think if it takes 45 minutes to go 7.5 miles across The City, that it will take 3 hours to go 30 miles to Palo Alto. (Which is true, if you’re on public transit…)
I was told by several people upon moving here that bay area peeps drive more than east coasters and that I should expect my yearly mileage to increase. I’m actually finding the opposite – I drive LESS than I did back in CT because things that I want to get to are closer than they were there. My idea of “far away” is, well, pretty far. In 2002 I put 35,000mi on my two cars combined. I only put about 25,000mi combined in 2003 because I spent something like 3 months (broken up over the course of the year) traveling and so I had rental cars.
The South Bay has a lot of stuff moderately close to each other, though the driving times are fairly high because of the congestion. (In the North Bay everything is 15 minutes from everything else; in the South Bay, everything is 30 minutes from everything else. The distances in the North Bay are about twice the similar distances in the South Bay.)
I’ve put about 30,000 miles per year on my car while working, but that’s more than a lot of my friends. I don’t have ready access to the stats, but I think the average Californian puts on way more than 11,000 miles per year, the national average.
Stats on vehicle-miles driven: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/rtecs/chapter3.html No breakdown by state, though the “West” doesn’t show significanty more travel.
I’d have considered it far even when I had a car. I think “far away” might even be described as “not walkable” for me. I miss having a neighborhood full of people I know. (Actually, many of my friends from grad school live within easy walking distance, but I haven’t been spending as much time with them recently.)
Soon I will be much closer to you. Maybe something can happen then.
Yum! I like gin and tonics, although it’s really all about the tonic and lime juice. Mmmmmmm….wonder if it would be good with cranberry?
Mmm… Peach schnapps and tonic water…
Torani syrups and tonic water = Italian sodas!
Ooooh, me me!
I’m a gin and tonic junkie. A squeeze of lime is lovely as well. Tuesday and Thursday are both good for me – I can be there earlier on a Tuesday than a Thursday (Frosh FB).
That could be fun, if the invite is open.
Or, you could go somewhere exotic and drink all the tonic to fend off malaria! (Except most malaria strains are resistant to quinine, now.)
That would be lovely. As far as I am aware, the location is practically on the way home from work for me.
However, I don’t know the specific address, so you would need to email me some sort of directions or an address.
I’ve never actually had gin and tonic… and it does seem to be highly recommended by a few of the previous respondents.
Sounds good to me.