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Aristus

(69,986 posts) Sat May 10, 2025, 09:47 PM May 10

Enjoying a Martinez tonight.

Gin, sweet vermouth, marischino liqueur, and a dash of orange bitters. It’s good. It’s sweet, but has that acidic bite of gin.

I’m told it’s considered one of the forerunners of the classic Martini.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

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Enjoying a Martinez tonight. (Original Post) Aristus May 10 OP

This has been an exhausting week! Dulcinea May 10 #1

Tell her congrats from a local here in Huntsville. House of Roberts May 10 #2

Huntsville is a nice town. Dulcinea May 10 #5

Used to drive between Atlanta and Huntsville often. There are some nice back roads to take Silent Type May 10 #7

Unfortunately, here in AL our voters mostly believe we shouldn't waste our tax $$$ on education ... eppur_se_muova May 11 #8

Congratulations to both of them, and congratulations to you! Aristus May 10 #3

Awww, you say the sweetest things! Dulcinea May 10 #4

Yeah, I get that a lot. Aristus May 10 #6

Dulcinea

(8,399 posts)

1. This has been an exhausting week!

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat May 10, 2025, 10:13 PM

May 10

Our older daughter graduated from college! BS in Mathematics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville! We moved her out of her dorm the next day! And, we moved our younger daughter out of her dorm at Georgia Southern University! She has 2 years to go, majoring in Health & Rehab Sciences. We're very proud of both of them!

It's beer thirty!

House of Roberts

(6,021 posts)

2. Tell her congrats from a local here in Huntsville.

Reply to Dulcinea (Reply #1)

Sat May 10, 2025, 10:26 PM

May 10

I'm a native and briefly attended UAH in the 70s before I turned to machine work full time.

Dulcinea

(8,399 posts)

5. Huntsville is a nice town.

Reply to House of Roberts (Reply #2)

Sat May 10, 2025, 10:31 PM

May 10

Daughter #1 may be attending grad school there in the fall! Only a 3 1/2 hr drive from where we live (metro Atlanta)

Silent Type

(9,507 posts)

7. Used to drive between Atlanta and Huntsville often. There are some nice back roads to take

Reply to Dulcinea (Reply #5)

Sat May 10, 2025, 10:53 PM

May 10

or one can stay on 4-lanes and Interstate when minutes count. I liked Huntsville.

eppur_se_muova

(39,062 posts)

8. Unfortunately, here in AL our voters mostly believe we shouldn't waste our tax $$$ on education ...

Reply to Dulcinea (Reply #5)

Sun May 11, 2025, 04:56 AM

May 11

... I know at least one Professor, who left UAH for another school, gave an interview to the local paper in which he complained about how the Dept. couldn't even keep basic supplies in stock. And he had done some very important work in the new superconductors -- any well-funded school should have jumped through hoops to keep him there.

A former Professor I met in a social context described his former Dept. as a "dying department".

I taught one course at UAH for one semester in that "dying department", and the description which came to my mind was "moribund" -- this before I spoke to that former professor !

Choose a graduate school very carefully; if things go bad, it can screw up the rest of your career for years and years.