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Bond drinks his martinis with a lemon peel because in the books Felix Leiter points out that olives take up a lot of volume in the glass so 2 fat olives means less booze than a skinny lemon peel.
 
 
I'm almost done rereading "Battle Cry of Freedom," my almost 600 page book on the Civil War and I have decided to declare GEN William Tecumseh Sherman Patron Saint of Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes. The way the author tells it, he fought a fairly conventional (if excellent) war up to Atlanta, but since the Confederate armies were no match for the Union armies by that point they were mostly limited to attacking rear areas, and wrecking communication, transportation, and supplies. Sherman decided he would have to withdraw if he continued to fight conventionally because his supply line was extended too far in enemy territory. So instead of fighting the troops that were harassing his rear areas, he just cut loose and plundered everything he needed and burned everything he didn't need, basically unopposed, from Atlanta to the sea. Then he hooked a left and did the same thing through the Carolinas.
 
Oh, the other thing that's been rolling around in my head from that book: According to the author, North Carolina was the last state to secede--and almost didn't. One of the hitches in a second Civil War today is, while the division is similarly high, the geographic arrangement isn't contiguous. You'd have the West Coast--a lot of the coastal areas--maybe Colorado, literally all over the map. So that sort of makes me wonder how the Civil War would've panned out if North Carolina *hadn't* seceded. There would've been this big chunk of Union, smack dab in the heart of the Confederacy. The Confederate capital of Richmond would've been practically surrounded by Union territory and Virginia would've been almost cut off from the rest of the Confederacy.
 
"Kevin McAllister" would be a good name for a cat.
 
Especially a cat who steals your toothbrush.
 
I enjoy being smart and a nerd. At the bank for reasons I may or may not have mentioned elsewhere and the guy at the teller to my left is getting $100 worth of quarters. The teller mentions they're all new issue 2026 quarters and people have been trying to get them. They make some small talk while the wheels turn in my head and the lightbulb comes on. I say "250th anniversary quarters. People want them because they're for the 250th anniversary." The reaction was not "OMIGOD you're the smartest person EVAR@!," but I got enough of a nod of appreciation that it was good for me.

[edit] and yes, holy shit, they apparently went bananas on fancy quarters for 2026. [/edit]
 
I have become my Dad (I'm fine with that, BTW). When I was young I got a rifle cheap because I was going to buy one and my Dad thought I was grossly overpaying (I wasn't). My Dad just lost track of what thing cost (he covered the difference). Apparently a burrito costing $20 is a thing in our culture right now and I'm thinking "that's insane. A delicious burrito the size of my forearm costs $7." (I lived near San Diego in the early 2000s.) So I googled my preferred Mexican place. My burrito costs $13.20. Not $20, but almost as close to it as the $7 I think a burrito costs.

It is a good burrito though. The best you can get if you're not living on the West Coast.

Best carne asada burrito (the best burrito in the world) is at any random shady Mexican drive-thru in or around San Diego that ends with "bertos". Albertos, Aibertos, Eribertos, whatever. Next best is a chain in Portland OR that, disturbingly, google maps makes me think no longer exists. Best I can get is Bandido Taquiera in Louisville, which is pretty damn good. Don't know if it is $13.20 good, but it's pretty good.
 
I am amused and appreciative of people who have a different skill-set than me. Girl, growing her hair out and she's like "it's long enough that I need to use a brush now" and I still don't know how you decide "nope, it's too long to comb." Shit. Now I can't remember where I was going with this. I had a bigger point and that was just the aperitif, but the chefs...PASTA! Pasta. Italians and pasta. I'm like, "it's noodles." Italians are like, "Oh, no no no no, you can't have spaghetti with shrimp. Especially with Alfredo sauce. You need big flat noodles." Or vermicelli. Rotini. I get spaghetti noodles for spaghetti or elbow macaroni for mac n' cheez, but beyond that it is a mystery.
 
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