Quoting Michael Loo to All on 03-20-19 08:05 <=-

The sun was forecast to be intense, so we went to the
St. Vincent de Paul thrift store where Bill found me a
cap that said USGA Member US Open 2012 on it. It was
labeled $2 but appaently clothes were on sale 50% off.

[snip]

There was a place right nearby selling mostly crap beer
but with a spigot of Odell's 90 Shilling Scottish ale,
same price as Bud Light, so I had one - rich, malty, a bit
sweet, but why they were selling a Colorado beer that
tasted very like the local Kilt Lifter I don't know. The
genial vendor (a black guy) asked for my pick for the US
Open. I said I didn't have one. Maybe I should have said
Tiger Woods, who is second in the advance betting (I looked
it up afterward).

Seems like he noticed your thrift store cap and assumed you were a
golfer yourself.... As to the Colorado beer, maybe that was what his
supplier had, and not the local one....?

The visiting Giants whupped the White Sox 5-2, and from the
sounds and the motions on field it appeared to have been a
good game. One amusing contretemps was that the announcer
announced the end of the game after the top of the 9th,
inadvertently trying to deprive the home team of its last
ups. So the field cleared, and it was several minutes before
the players and personnel (umpires!) realized that the game
was in fact not over, so eventually everyone was shooed back on
the field for what turned out to be a last futile half inning.

Yeah... but... they still deserved their last chance.... (G)

For dinner I got a Machaca chimi, very resilient but very
tasty stew meat in a too-doughy fried flour tortilla crust
(these guys are real Mexicans and therefore don't know how
to make chimichangas), good guac and (nixed) sour cream on
the side; pretty good though salty rice and refritos.
Carl and Ellen both got things with machaca, knowing what's
good here. Swisher had a cheese enchilada platter, which he
polished off thoroughly.
There was plenty of food, and some of my chimi went back for
Carl's lunch (good thing, because our room turned out not to
have a fridge), and half a pound of machaca went back for
a later supper for them.

Sounds all pretty good.... :)

ttyl neb

... Combining scallops and butter is basically never a bad idea.

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