USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Foxfyre]

I'm still alive! Busy, as usual except for today. It is my one day off and I have managed to get my robe on, fix lunch and have a couple cups of coffee.
Saturday night at Doc's will be a rally big deal. We are having a band in from Nashville that has a couple LPs on the country charts and has written a #1 country hit for another band. They (John and Jacob) will be sharing the stage with our most often used The Jason Abel Project.
Local bands around here normally get $100/man for a 4 hour show. which means I need to sell $1,200 worth of alcohol just to break even. Normally, we'll make a few bucks, but we get new faces in the door. The last time we had Jason, we did pretty well, actually, but nothing I could do short of charging a $25 cover could justify having a $500/man 5 piece group at Doc's. The band stopped by as customers a while back and after some back and forth, they are playing for the big bucks Friday night at a 500 seat venue on the beach and for local band money at our place on Saturday. (after advertising us at the beach)

Wish I could be there Ernie. I won't be helping with the $1,200 in alcohol sales, but a $25 cover charge would be worth it just to have a laid back evening with a good band. Do they do the Texas two-step in Alabama?

 

[Foxfyre]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

 

[Ernie S.]

I'm still alive! Busy, as usual except for today. It is my one day off and I have managed to get my robe on, fix lunch and have a couple cups of coffee.
Saturday night at Doc's will be a rally big deal. We are having a band in from Nashville that has a couple LPs on the country charts and has written a #1 country hit for another band. They (John and Jacob) will be sharing the stage with our most often used The Jason Abel Project.
Local bands around here normally get $100/man for a 4 hour show. which means I need to sell $1,200 worth of alcohol just to break even. Normally, we'll make a few bucks, but we get new faces in the door. The last time we had Jason, we did pretty well, actually, but nothing I could do short of charging a $25 cover could justify having a $500/man 5 piece group at Doc's. The band stopped by as customers a while back and after some back and forth, they are playing for the big bucks Friday night at a 500 seat venue on the beach and for local band money at our place on Saturday. (after advertising us at the beach)

Wish I could be there Ernie. I won't be helping with the $1,200 in alcohol sales, but a $25 cover charge would be worth it just to have a laid back evening with a good band. Do they do the Texas two-step in Alabama?

They do a bit of two step in these parts. We wear cowboy boots and hats too.
The cover charge is a sticking point for me. We've had live entertainment about 150 times since we opened and have NEVER had a cover. I've seen too many places charging $5 to get in the door chasing away a potential $40 bar tab.

 

[Ernie S.]

This is a shot of John and Jacob at their recent show in Kansas City. If you think the crowd is big, I saw a photo of them today taken last Saturday in Sydney Australia playing to 40,000. Now you see why I'm excited.

 

[Foxfyre]

 

[ChrisL]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

Am I missing something?

 

[ChrisL]

I've got the day off today. No work until tomorrow at 4 PM!

 

[Foxfyre]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

Am I missing something?

That was followed by a photo of a lizard with a butterfly on its head (and the caption said just that: I am sick of politics so here is a picture of a lizard with a butterfly on its head.) Somehow that doesn't come out as funny as the graphic did.

Don't know what happened to the picture though. One minute it was there and then it went away

 

[ChrisL]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

Am I missing something?

That was followed by a photo of a lizard with a butterfly on its head (and the caption said just that: I am sick of politics so here is a picture of a lizard with a butterfly on its head.) Somehow that doesn't come out as funny as the graphic did.

Don't know what happened to the picture though. One minute it was there and then it went away

Oh, I thought it was something REALLY controversial and you had decided to delete it.

 

[Foxfyre]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

Am I missing something?

That was followed by a photo of a lizard with a butterfly on its head (and the caption said just that: I am sick of politics so here is a picture of a lizard with a butterfly on its head.) Somehow that doesn't come out as funny as the graphic did.

Don't know what happened to the picture though. One minute it was there and then it went away

Oh, I thought it was something REALLY controversial and you had decided to delete it.

And now the photo seems to be back? It is for me anyway.

 

[Foxfyre]

 

[ChrisL]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

Am I missing something?

That was followed by a photo of a lizard with a butterfly on its head (and the caption said just that: I am sick of politics so here is a picture of a lizard with a butterfly on its head.) Somehow that doesn't come out as funny as the graphic did.

Don't know what happened to the picture though. One minute it was there and then it went away

Oh, I thought it was something REALLY controversial and you had decided to delete it.

And now the photo seems to be back? It is for me anyway.

I still don't see anything! That happens with pictures on this site sometimes. They must get lost in the void. Lol.

 

[ChrisL]

I edited this to put my answer in a spoiler so that other people can find the mistake. Sorry about that.

Spoiler

Two "the" in the sentence. Editing is part of my job. Lol.

 

[Nosmo King]

Well it seems Spring is springing! Yesterday I saw a crab apple tree in full bloom. there it stood on Anderson Boulevard all decked out in bright pink like a young girl's first stab at lipstick. I saw a forsythia starting to blush in lemon yellow blossoms, still too shy or reluctant to pop all at once. The tulips bordering the North Portico of the Luxurious Pimplebutt Estate are showing me that they survived yet another winter. It's time to go out and clear away the last remnants of Autumn leaves and dog poo that surround them now. But the weatherman says we might have yet an inch or two of snow to watch Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The director of the famed Easter Pageant on the Hillside gave me a new script in LARGE PRINT to help me with my Mr. Magoo vision. My cataracts should be a memory by mid April as surgery has been scheduled. Left eye on the 14th, right eye on the 21st.

Mom wants to drive me to the out patient clinic. How many times in your life do you get a chance to pull a really great practical joke? After the surgery and the receptionist lets Mom back to the Recovery room, I think I'll raise my hands in the air and ask "Mom? Is that you?" and then feel her face.

That will either drive her batty or give her a giggle. Either way I can't resist!

 

[Montrovant]

Well it seems Spring is springing! Yesterday I saw a crab apple tree in full bloom. there it stood on Anderson Boulevard all decked out in bright pink like a young girl's first stab at lipstick. I saw a forsythia starting to blush in lemon yellow blossoms, still too shy or reluctant to pop all at once. The tulips bordering the North Portico of the Luxurious Pimplebutt Estate are showing me that they survived yet another winter. It's time to go out and clear away the last remnants of Autumn leaves and dog poo that surround them now. But the weatherman says we might have yet an inch or two of snow to watch Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The director of the famed Easter Pageant on the Hillside gave me a new script in LARGE PRINT to help me with my Mr. Magoo vision. My cataracts should be a memory by mid April as surgery has been scheduled. Left eye on the 14th, right eye on the 21st.

Mom wants to drive me to the out patient clinic. How many times in your life do you get a chance to pull a really great practical joke? After the surgery and the receptionist lets Mom back to the Recovery room, I think I'll raise my hands in the air and ask "Mom? Is that you?" and then feel her face.

That will either drive her batty or give her a giggle. Either way I can't resist!

I wish I had as pleasant a way to tell that Spring has arrived. For me it's the fact that I've gotten my first tick bites of the year.

 

[ChrisL]

Well it seems Spring is springing! Yesterday I saw a crab apple tree in full bloom. there it stood on Anderson Boulevard all decked out in bright pink like a young girl's first stab at lipstick. I saw a forsythia starting to blush in lemon yellow blossoms, still too shy or reluctant to pop all at once. The tulips bordering the North Portico of the Luxurious Pimplebutt Estate are showing me that they survived yet another winter. It's time to go out and clear away the last remnants of Autumn leaves and dog poo that surround them now. But the weatherman says we might have yet an inch or two of snow to watch Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The director of the famed Easter Pageant on the Hillside gave me a new script in LARGE PRINT to help me with my Mr. Magoo vision. My cataracts should be a memory by mid April as surgery has been scheduled. Left eye on the 14th, right eye on the 21st.

Mom wants to drive me to the out patient clinic. How many times in your life do you get a chance to pull a really great practical joke? After the surgery and the receptionist lets Mom back to the Recovery room, I think I'll raise my hands in the air and ask "Mom? Is that you?" and then feel her face.

That will either drive her batty or give her a giggle. Either way I can't resist!

I wish I had as pleasant a way to tell that Spring has arrived. For me it's the fact that I've gotten my first tick bites of the year.

Already?? Gosh, we are supposed to get more snow this weekend!

 

[Dajjal]

I wish I had as pleasant a way to tell that Spring has arrived. For me it's the fact that I've gotten my first tick bites of the year

You want to be careful of tick bites. They can cause dangerous diseases that should be treated early, or they cause serious problems. We have a new tick in Britain that kills dogs. We also have some dangerous spiders called false black widows, that give poisonous bites. They are probably foreign immigrants.
I have not seen any yet but I have seen two moths in my flat, and I swatted them both. The plan is to swat and spray and kill this seasons moths before they have time to lay eggs.

 

[Ernie S.]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

Am I missing something?

That was followed by a photo of a lizard with a butterfly on its head (and the caption said just that: I am sick of politics so here is a picture of a lizard with a butterfly on its head.) Somehow that doesn't come out as funny as the graphic did.

Don't know what happened to the picture though. One minute it was there and then it went away

Oh, I thought it was something REALLY controversial and you had decided to delete it.

And now the photo seems to be back? It is for me anyway.

I'm still not seeing it here

 

[Foxfyre]

Well it seems Spring is springing! Yesterday I saw a crab apple tree in full bloom. there it stood on Anderson Boulevard all decked out in bright pink like a young girl's first stab at lipstick. I saw a forsythia starting to blush in lemon yellow blossoms, still too shy or reluctant to pop all at once. The tulips bordering the North Portico of the Luxurious Pimplebutt Estate are showing me that they survived yet another winter. It's time to go out and clear away the last remnants of Autumn leaves and dog poo that surround them now. But the weatherman says we might have yet an inch or two of snow to watch Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The director of the famed Easter Pageant on the Hillside gave me a new script in LARGE PRINT to help me with my Mr. Magoo vision. My cataracts should be a memory by mid April as surgery has been scheduled. Left eye on the 14th, right eye on the 21st.

Mom wants to drive me to the out patient clinic. How many times in your life do you get a chance to pull a really great practical joke? After the surgery and the receptionist lets Mom back to the Recovery room, I think I'll raise my hands in the air and ask "Mom? Is that you?" and then feel her face.

That will either drive her batty or give her a giggle. Either way I can't resist!

I wish I had as pleasant a way to tell that Spring has arrived. For me it's the fact that I've gotten my first tick bites of the year.

Already?? Gosh, we are supposed to get more snow this weekend!

I wondered if it was snowing at your house.

Sunny, gentle breeze, and 71 here today.

 

[Foxfyre]

And I know we all do our dangdest to keep politics and other controversial stuff that nobody ever agrees on out of the Coffee Shop, but honestly, I am sooooo tired of the current silly season, so. . . .

Am I missing something?

That was followed by a photo of a lizard with a butterfly on its head (and the caption said just that: I am sick of politics so here is a picture of a lizard with a butterfly on its head.) Somehow that doesn't come out as funny as the graphic did.

Don't know what happened to the picture though. One minute it was there and then it went away

Oh, I thought it was something REALLY controversial and you had decided to delete it.

And now the photo seems to be back? It is for me anyway.

I'm still not seeing it here

Really weird. I reappeared for me and shows up in this quote as I am typing. Hmmmm.