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Sleepy. Last night was all thumbs up. After work, Sam and I picked Urs up at the medical center and headed over to McGonigel's Mucky Duck for some Guinness and Murphy's. We gave Urs a celebratory bottle of single barrel rum for his mini-bachelor-party-ish night out that we'd aquired at the "new" downtown super-Spec's. Awesome store... really. Next was one of my serious favs... Downing Street Pub. Single malt scotch and imported cigars (the same one's from my wedding) were the flavor of the moment. That place brings back memories. Back in the Benz, we scooted to Scott Gertner's Skybar. Overpriced glam and plastic people ala Sex in the City meets Hollywood after taking that wrong turn in Albuquerque... despite all the Houstonian wanna-be's, it is a very nice place to take in a 360 degree few of the city skyline. Drinks down and time to eat. Dinner was at the Black Labrador Pub (apparently with no web site to link). English food is a nice switch up. Shepherd's pie, fish and chips, beef wellington... it was all there next to the Guinness on our table. Next stop, The Big Easy Social and Pleasure Club "House of Mixology". Another one of my all time favorite places to find myself in Houston, The Big Easy hosts the Houston Blues Society's monthly open jam on the last Thursay of every month. Asshole John was there... as well as the usual regulars. The was a Jimi Hendrix look-alike wailing through some solo when we arrived, but the highlight of the night was some little kid named Dalton... couldn't have been more than 15 or so... amazing. He play guitar like it developed as a limb in the womb. He covered Stevie Ray Vaughan and Hendrix... he played some Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry... he sang while he played and was clearly the most technical guitar player in the house. Absolutely amazing. Anyhoo, I didn't get in until late and that makes working this morning all suck and no fun. I'm really looking forward to this 3-day weekend... hoping the weather holds out. Yeah. Good times!