6/29 Recap:

I had a busy, somewhat stressful day at work today. Plus, I was feeling a little bit low so I kept to myself. I stayed a little later than usual at the office IMing, then headed over to Starbuck's to return a video next door and to see if Calvin was working. It was just the new girls tonight so I just dropped off the video and went home. I watched a new episode of Reno 911 that I was pleasantly surprised to find on my Tivo. I read in Entertainment Weekly that while the show was filming in a real police station, Thomas Lennon (Dangle, the cop in the daisy dukes) had a formal complaint filed against him by a female police officer, requesting that he not bend over so much.

Fucking. Awesome.

It was the one where they think Weigel's boyfriend is a serial killer. I loved it when Weigal comes back into the room, pissed at them and says, "'F' you! 'F' you and...FUCK you." She's one of my favorite all-time television characters. I think you have to be insane to improvise a character like that.

We went to Wahoo's for dinner and then over to Ralph's because I was going to experiment making a key lime pie martini. I picked up vanilla stoli, malibu, pina colada mix, lime juice and pineapple juice. I didn't want to use cream for this martini so I was hoping the pina colada mix or malibu could smooth out the kick at the end to make it taste more like pie than a citrus drink. I also figured the malibu and pina colada mix were interchangeable. I knew the malibu would work but a mixer would have been ideal to more fully tone-down the aftertaste. I tried some combinations and threw in graham crackers. The graham crackers are to simulate the taste of the crust but the milder taste of the graham crackers too greatly constrasted the sharpness of the citrus and the bitterness of the alcohol, causing the drink to taste stronger than it tasted without the graham crackers. I'm not sure if I need to make the drink sweeter or the graham cracker sweeter in order to make it taste more like pie, but next time, I'm going to experiment with Teddy Grahams and some real fruit juices.