Wooden Napkin Ring Slappy

I got my kegging on this weekend with some assistance from my dad. He was in town for the weekend for some family stuff. Mostly, it was my sister & her husband's joint birthday celebration. My sister turned 30. She planned some fancy-ass event at Fenouil - a classic French cuisine place in the Pearl. The birthday event included most of our family as well as about 10 of her friends & co-workers. The place blows. We were told it was a kid-friendly establishment, so we brought along the crumb-snatchers (this being a family gathering and all). The staff seemed really put-out that kids were in the restaurant or something. When they served us wine, I reached for the glass and the waitress audibly grunted in indignation over my uncouth behavior. She purposely reached across, snatched the napkin from in front of me, yanked it out of it's little wooden ring, and placed it over my hand. She then waited expectantly glaring at me until I placed it on my lap. When I did so, she bolted. My father got the same treatment. Geezus. Just because you WORK at a French restaurant doesn't mean you have to encompass the cliche of being a rude French waiter.

The true insult was that my sister picked this place for her and her husband's birthday. Her hubby is from England. He didn't find anything about the place funny. She told me the reason for choosing Fenouil was because it was a place her family would never pick and wouldn't be comfortable going to. She nailed it. Their only saving grace was that they carried Terminal Gravity on tap. It came in a funny glass (read: not a pint), but it was TG, so I didn't have to end up throttling the uppity wait staff.

This weekend promises to be time mostly spent in the garage. Violet and I have been working on converting the garage space in to a usable workspace/studio for her business. In the last 2 weeks I have finished installing the electrical, putting up insulation, and laying drywall for one wall. Let's see... um... oh yeah -- 3 more to go. I might step foot out of the garage for a short time to watch Seattle & Pittsburgh play in the Superbowl XL. PREDICTION: Seattle will win by 13 points. Hooray.

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