Fun with Family
Aug. 1st, 2004 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skreidleGood times, good times. Headed up to Ramparts in Alexandria around 1600, passing inexplicably heavy traffic on 95S as I headed north. (I later learned that an accident much further south was the cause.) Found the restaurant with no difficulty, and was directed to the private room where I found Mary & Jim, Nancy & Miguel, mom & dad, Matt & Steph & Brendan, Pat & Bill, and Mike & Lillian. Conversation was boisterous, food and drink were good--including Smithwick's, a dark-but-not-bitter beer, Dominion Oak Barrel Stout, and a taste of Johnnie Walker Black (because they didn't have blue) from Jim's glass, which many of us sampled--and a good time was had by all.
Afterward, most (if not all) of us trekked the 5-10 minutes over to Pat & Bill's house, where we had some Snickers-esque pie, and some more sedate conversation. (We also discussed "short snorters," a term that has quite a number of non-definitive usages, most relating to military travel and drinking. The reason for this was that, in his wallet, Bill (my dad's uncle) has a 1935-issue U.S. dollar bill (technically, a "One Dollar Silver Certificate") signed by a plane-ful of fellow soldiers during a flight on 20Nov1943 from Washington, DC to Cairo, Egypt, and we were trying to figure out what exactly the significance or history of the term "short snorter" was. :)
Eventually, everyone wandered off toward home, and I almost missed the poorly-marked 395 exit from Glebe Road as I followed my parents on their way to 66. Tomorrow, or at the latest Tuesday, I expect to hear (and hope to receive a job offer) from ADIC. Could happen!
Afterward, most (if not all) of us trekked the 5-10 minutes over to Pat & Bill's house, where we had some Snickers-esque pie, and some more sedate conversation. (We also discussed "short snorters," a term that has quite a number of non-definitive usages, most relating to military travel and drinking. The reason for this was that, in his wallet, Bill (my dad's uncle) has a 1935-issue U.S. dollar bill (technically, a "One Dollar Silver Certificate") signed by a plane-ful of fellow soldiers during a flight on 20Nov1943 from Washington, DC to Cairo, Egypt, and we were trying to figure out what exactly the significance or history of the term "short snorter" was. :)
Eventually, everyone wandered off toward home, and I almost missed the poorly-marked 395 exit from Glebe Road as I followed my parents on their way to 66. Tomorrow, or at the latest Tuesday, I expect to hear (and hope to receive a job offer) from ADIC. Could happen!
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Date: 2004-08-01 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-02 08:10 am (UTC)I just thought it was cool that a) he's carried it in his wallet since that day in 1943, and b) it was a type of dollar bill I'd never seen before. :)