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As the King of Early Happy Hour, I will be there at 7 p.m.

Actually, I can’t make it. Boo to that. I wanted to try their “MN Milled Grits.”

Wow, that is late. I am usually in bed by 9:30pm.

You people are serious partiers…..

I think you guys are trying to avoid me! Why else would you always schedule these get-togethers when I a) have to work in the evening, or b) can’t get out of work early enough in the afternoon, huh? Huh?!

I cannot make it either… Too too too late.

Ok, if you’re an early bird, come to Gallery Grooves at Frank Stone Gallery instead.

Seriously, when did happy hour move from 4-7 p.m. to bedtime?

It’s late night happy hour, for those of us who rock and roll all night night and fall asleep in our cubicles every day.

I love Red Stag.

The End.

Max, I thought you liked to rock and roll all night and party e-vuh-ry day.

When I am not asleep in my cubicle, yes.

I miss cubicles. There’s so much one can do in a cubicle.

I have a cubicle, it’s not that great…what I wouldn’t do for an office. MY KINGDOM FOR A DOOR!!!!

My cubicle has a door. Not sure why.

I don’t even have a cubicle. I’m separated from my coworkers by plastic tubs.

Totally off-topic: will box wine freeze in my car if I leave it there all winter? I have been advised to get sandbags to weigh down my car, but I thought a case or two of box wine would be better. Then I’ll drink it all summer (I am a former sommelier, I can drink the cheap crap unabashedly).

But if it’ll freeze or go bad, forget it.

my office has a locking door, running water and several rolls of paper. roomy enough for even my wide stance.

I have beads on my office door like Rhoda’s apt. in Mary Tyler Moore.

Well, you do need privacy for that “casting couch” max…

I’m jealous of all you people with doors at work. I have to go into the single shitter if I want to make a personal phone call in private.

Yes, it will freeze, Jane. There is not enough ethanol in wine (or beer) to prevent it from freezing in extreme temps.

If it freezes, you too can “blame ethanol.”

The water in it will freeze before the alcohol does, leaving behind the liquor. Do this with beer, and you will have made vodka the way Russians used to — bu just leaving beer out in the cold.

Caveat: It tastes terrible.

alcohol is not supposed to taste good…it’s poison. it’s also the reason god invented fruit juices.

Well crud. Forget it then. I’ll just continue to improve my fishtailing. You should see the sharp and controlled U-turns I can already make!

Okay, go back to your discussion on happy hour and cubicles.

I miss my former cubicle in cubeville as now I sit in a bullpen.

As much as I love my co-workers, sometimes a gal needs a little privacy.

The water in it will freeze before the alcohol does, leaving behind the liquor. Do this with beer, and you will have made vodka the way Russians used to — by just leaving beer out in the cold.

Caveat: It tastes terrible.

Caveat: doing this (aka “jacking”) is considered a form of distillation (freeze distillation) and is technically illegal without the proper permits. Though I doubt the ATF will come busting down your door. It can also concentrate harmful compounds, like fusel alcohols, that can be more easily removed with proper heat distillation.

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I left a small thing of milk and a chicken breast in my car from my lunch break yesterday, to the time I got home from the gym. So roughly 7 hours. It did not freeze and the milk was delicious! I like milk.

Maybe I’ll weigh my car down with the weight of my lost youth and crushed dreams.

(I’m actually not feeling that bleak

Here is an idea Jane. Rent out your car space as a freezer. Weigh down your car with a side of beef!

I have an office to myself with a locking door!

Now that is a brilliant idea!!!

speaking of happy hour, rumor has it that there are literally 1000s of cookies being given away in the skyway of the 225 S. 6th street building between now and 5:30pm.

Yeah, I don’t think I can make it.