Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Bacardi 151 Congratulations! You're 134 proof, with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (83), and liquor (104).

All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high that you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure, you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips to the bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which is most efficient.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 64% on proof You scored higher than 89% on beer index You scored higher than 89% on wine index You scored higher than 93% on liquor index

Link: The Alcohol Knowledge Test written by hoppersplit on Ok Cupid

I think I got lucky guessing, and I'm not a regular drinker at all.

This morning I left the car in to the garage to have a leak looked at. It looked like the radiator had been holed. I was talking to the mechanic a short while ago and got the bad news.

( Car woes. )

This comes, of course, in the middle of the most expensive 3-4 month period we've had in years. The trip to Finland for my brother's wedding is at the end of the month and has already cost us more than €2000 in flights and accommodation. We coughed up already for a service on the car in February (they didn't notice any problems then, the feckers!), paid the WorldCon memberships and have had several doctor's visits for Rowan too.

As a friend said: buy a car, never have money again. Why couldn't he have told me before I got the car?

[To be fair I didn't buy the car. It was a gift from my brother when he was done with it, and we got about a year or 15 months out of it. ]