Chin Chin International!

Following the lead of this blogs founder I left the U.S. for vacation.  Right now I’m in the middle of 16 days in Europe and have decided it’s high time to resurect this blog.  So as often as I can make it to a computer we’ll be serving up wordly reasons to drink. 

For now, Here’s to free booze on international flights!

Back at it…

We here at Chin Chin don’t want the drinking world to think we have given up on booze. But we have been busy. Not to busy to drink. Just to busy to blog about it. But that’s all about to change.

Here’s to the comeback.

He’s No Ghengis…

On this day in 1989, the democratic movement that peacefully changed Mongolia from a dirty red Commie state into a pillar of democracy began. Here’s to you Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj.

Agent Zero On Relationships

Here, they (jensfreethrows.wordpress.com) call it the quote of the day. I think it’s a bit long to call it a quote, its more of a story. But it’s pretty entertaining to hear a guy who makes, I’m guessing here, $15 mil a year talk about having on shoes that are a size too small cause they matched his outfit and sleeping at the gym to make a point after arguing with his GF about a dirty car.

SoCo Tastes Like Peaches

So I was talking to a SoCo promo girl. She was trying to give me a hat, which I did not want. Suprisingly, Southern Comfort came up in the conversation, I said it tastes like peaches, she said it didn’t. I still think it does, liquor flavored peaches, but peaches. I’d like to conduct a survey, but nobody reads the blog. But if you do please chime in with your position on Southern Comfort tasting like peaches.

A toast to anything that tastes like peaches.

Three Day Weekend Re-Round

After considering this excellent post by WFS about his 3 day weekend I decided to embark on my own little adventure. Armed with with a crew of good freinds from Bellingham, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, and parts unkown I took in a 30th Birthday party for Matt White, The UW Football, The Seahawks football game and managed to survive a great deal of Das Boot flavored debauchery. At some point I even became freindly with a very cute Seattlite woman. During all this madness there were plenty of things to Cheers. For this post I will Cheers Inappropriateness based on the following conversation between “Agent J” and Smoking Hot Waitress just before the UW game :

Agent J muttering under his breath just loud enough for the people at the table to hear: Are you an official? Because your officially giving me a boner.

Smoking Hot Waitress: What? Did you say you want something?

Agent J looking at his wedding ring: Yeah, how about poligamy?

Smoking Hot Waitress: Poligamy?

Agent J: I’ll just have a Bloody Mary.

To Inapropriate behaviour.

LT Throws for One, Runs for One

During the Chargers game today one of the announcers commented that if he hard one more San Diegan complain about the heat he would hit them. Well, I don’t think he said he would hit ‘em, but I can’t remember exactly what he said. You get the idea.

Anyway, the weather’s nice here, so drink to the nice weather I enjoy. And to the Chargers.

Who Else Blog’s About Memo’s?

A memo made it’s way to me through the grapevine from the CMS (center for Medicare services) overlords today. Not surprisingly, the memo was not interesting. It did reference the Paperwork Reduction Act, or PRA as I will refer to it here. I don’t know anything about the PRA except its name, and I’m assuming that it was passed by congress.

I’m curios if its intent was to limit actual paperwork required of government employees, saving time and money (theoretically), or if it was to reduce the amount of paper used to save the environment. Either way, I’m also curious about the amount of paperwork done to get the PRA passed, and furthermore, how much paperwork needed to be done by government agencies like CMS to deal with the PRA.

If the intent was environmental, and most of this work was done on computers, the PRA might be a success (lets not think about the power consumed by those computers). If the intent was less work, as the name implies, I can’t imagine it was a success.

This is all conjecture on my part and I would love to hear from someone more knowledgeable on the subject.

For now, I’m going to print out the memo, copy it in triplicate, fill out a TPS report acknowledging its receipt, and then tip back a cold one in honor of the Paperwork Reduction Act.

Voce Gostam do creme con aquele?

It’s Brazilian independence day! Anyone got any good Brazil stories? I bet one can have a good time down there, at one point in my life it was at the top of my travel to list, but has since slipped a bit.

I propose a toast to the Brazilian girl I buy coffee from!

Now for some pics of Brazilian girls who don’t sell me coffee

The Ill-Na-Na?

It’s Foxey Brown’s birthday. I remember Foxey most for her video that introduced me to Jay-Z. Hip-Hop heads might throw out all kinds of shit I should have heard before that, but I grew up in the third whitest town in the Pacific Northwest, so cut me some slack.

Here’s to all those arrogant hip-hop nerds.