As per plans outlined in a previous post, I’ve been contemplating how our Friend (“My friend, your friend… everybody’s friend.”) can help me get through the impending marathon. On the plus side, we know there’s an abundance of new, geek-targeted, and really quite tasty beer out there so keeping an appropriately nerdy selection of these stocked in reserve at all times should be quite easy.
Quite easy, especially since I’m planning on limited consumption during the viewing. Hmm… maybe my “One Beer Per Session” should always be a large bottle…
Plus, I feel like I’ve gotten a pretty good handle on selecting beer over the years. At least at selecting it for me.
Wine?
Not so much. Also, outside the scope of this experiment.
Hard alcohol?
Man, I haven’t really spent any substantial time with hard alcohol since college and back then it was not a relationship founded on quality. Which means I’ve had to do a little research because my “In Case of Dire Emergency Where One Beer Will Not Be Enough” plan involves mixing a drink using my as-yet-unopened Outer Space vodka. A single drink, to supplement the single beer per session if needed. It sounds so inadequate when I say it aloud.
If the price is any indication (and I’m going to pretend it is, even if it isn’t), the Outer Space vodka should at least be a decent base to work from for a mixed drink. But what mixed drinks should I mix? Fortunately, The Internet is always willing to help:
The Drunken Moogle looks like it will provide me with a good starting point when needed. I can search by an ingredient (such as vodka) and there’s a decent selection of genre-inspired drinks to choose from.
Based on a very brief search, I don’t think I’ll lack for other resources if this one eventually fails me. So many choices.
I’m hoping I won’t have to resort mixing drinks too frequently anyway. I have to ration my supply and save it up for those really challenging slogs later in the marathon. After all, there’s only the one bottle of Outer Space vodka in the house and once it’s gone, it’s gone. It will not be refilled/replaced during the marathon. I’m thinking of it as an emergency health/mana potion.
If you have any favorite vodka drinks that you think should be in my arsenal for this undertaking, please let me know in the comments section. And hurry! I’m running out of delaying tactics and may actually have to start watching things soon!