arrrrrrr you feeling pirate-y?

If so, you should have a dark and stormy... a glass of ginger beer topped off with a shot or so of black rum. That was one of several of my drinks last night at my 21st birthday party.

This was the blackest of all black rums... Gosling's 151 proof. Leaves your tongue numb for a good fifteen minutes after a shot, which is a good thing, because before it numbs it burns like hell. Perhaps like the souls of the crew of the Black Pearl.

Okay, enough with the pirate stuff, I know. My party was great fun, with the expected splintering of people based on previous acquaintance. There's totally a book to be written about social interactions at parties (if it hasn't already been written)...