Albuquerque a2k roundup, May 14-19, 2008

-And that's what I love, a man/woman who gets down to the basics and gives everyone else the courtesy of considering them adults able to form their own opinions.

I know Dys and I and, I think it's a safe bet, Jo, would love to meet you at the Calico Cafe on Friday am.

By Friday night, most others will have arrived. Why don't you all plan to call at our house to find out what's happening or we will leave messages at your motels notifying you of the places where people have decided to visit.

John or Jo, do you know where everyone is staying? If it's already listed on the thread, let me know and I won't bother you--I will find it myself.

Is it a few weeks yet? It is really hard to keep myself quiet.

I agree with Johnboy, and will meet you at the Calico. More important is if you are getting a car, Johnboy, nags re question, or we pick you up at the airport (we can't do that for all, but let us know, so we can figure.)

I think I might have talked about this before, but some might want to go to Corrales on Sunday. Corrales is not fancy and some may say, eh? There is a farmer's market in a place of beauty with some charm. Well, I hardly buy anything either, for budget reasons and not travel reasons, but it is nice to walk around. Corrales has a few arty shops/galleries and the otherwise-at-a2k mentioned Anthro Pottery place. Me, I just like to be there - I like walking around in the whole area, and have (well, once, at some length.) And then there is the Indigo Crow cafe, which I keep mentioning.


Diane and Dys went to Vivace a few days ago, and I didn't go with them, given my own stuff going on. But, they liked it again and Dys says they have a separate room that can take up to 20.

I'm thinking maybe Friday evening, for those who want to, but we'd need to warn them, either for a table or two or three in the regular room, or a separate room, of which they have one, and it's a popular place.

The one time we were there on an evening, it was busy, and the owner was at the next table...

Yes osso! Vivace would be perfect.

For those who are definitely coming, pm me and I'll give you our number and address.

Or, Diane, maybe Saturday? But we'd have to nail the room fairly fast, I think. And I would hope it doesn't come with a prescribed dinner.


If that is all orchestrated to having people pay godzillas, I'd rather have it as an afternoon option, like we usually do, when the place is near empty and we're the engaging group, and I just get some pasta and a nice glass of wine. But... they may be open to that.

An afternoon outing to Vivace would be ideal in having less noise and fewer people and, because of that, a better chance of getting a private room.

Worth a shot!

To speak frankly, I can't just split a big bill, I'm saving up for the little ones. I think I might not be alone on this, indeed I know I'm not.

So, if someone orders wine for all, that someone pays for it and its tax and tip.



This has happened. LionTamer, via a phone call, bought us a ticket at the pub in Chicago, Duke of Perth.
I will simply always love liontamer, though he was ok already before that, and wanted to be with us.


That comment was not to instigate people buying drinks. That would be a thicket and not at all where we want to go as people finally meeting who just want to talk. But the one time was a knockout fit.

Osso, I have also worried about that, as I too know that there are some who will find it financially problematic to go to the better restaurants.

If the rest of us can agree to buying the wine, that would ease matters considerably for some of our friends. Also, it can be done very discreetly so that, even though everyone knows it is being done, it doesn't have to be talked about.

And, since Bob and I have a fairly good wine selection--I know Eva likes pinot grigio--aomost everyone should be happy. We are not conniseuers, but a good Chilean cabernet, a good, native sparkling (champagne) wine, some good whites. We know of a good wine/liquor store, so if you want us to stock something else, let us know. Uh, just not something like Bollenger.

I see your point, Diane, taking that out of the mix. I'll just say yes, sort of a baseline wine and - let's say - a baseline amount, with a stop.

But the bitch will challenge you two re having a good wine selection. Not that I know better, as, as you know, I've no nose. But I've read more.


Wiggles weeds...

Ha. I recall the pub in Chicago where I asked where Ossobuco, JoefromChicago and Sublime might be. The hostess stared at me like I was crazy. Later on, when money was being tossed on the table, the waitress came up and quizzically asked if we knew someone named "LiontamerX." He paid most of our bill, she said.

Please don't decide not to come to some event because of the cost. Throw in what you can. The rest will be taken care of, I assure you, by the A2K Foundation For Happy Times.

DIANE! Pinot grigio! I can't believe it! You remembered!!! {smoochesx3}
You don't have to provide wine for us, though. We can bring our own. Really, that could get expensive in a hurry.

I've never been to Vivace, but it sounds ideal. Of course, I'm always up for Italian.

I remember the looks on everyone's faces at the Duke of Perth, rjb. Priceless, it was! LiontamerX surprised us all. (What a guy! )

Gotcha, RJB.

And Eva. Well, liontamer has always been one of my favorite posters. Who knows, we may disagree on the odd this or that.. (this would not be new, some disagree violently.) But I've always liked him and wish he would the hell post more often.

I guess I was a little abrupt, that's my way. No, D & D, your wine collection is not a good one. You at least have one, as I've bottle atop the refrigerator. Remember, I'm from f/king california. (This is a pal joke.)
I know absence.

I know when my friends drove me from my art exhibit in sacramento to their house in napa and offered me a glass of wine before I went to bed in their featherbed cupola, to say yes, and I had my first old vines zin in their parlour that midnight.

Well, I knew them from college long ago. I still relate to her, and I might have to kill him, but luckily we're not married. In any case, he is a wine connoisseur of the over the top variety. Well, I'm fond of them both, but he is insane about wine. So, neither you or Dys or I have any wine collection, not only in relative terms, nor at all.

Hey, O'Bill could contribute to this... where is he now?


Am I obnoxious enough yet, or would you like more?

I'm no wine sophisticate either, but I have friends who are. When one of them was over for dinner years ago, I brought out a bottle that I had sprinkled with talcom powder and blew it off in his presence. For a second he, he said, he thought it was a "dusty old" bottle from a wine cellar. A fine moment, if only a second

seconds in time...

well, I've messed up again, as Diane said wine selection, not collection, and then I did some post efforts, and why did I do that? Off on my own toot.



She's right, I'm such a snot.

You'll get a pm from my hosts :wink:


[We just had some A2K'ers staying with us who liked our "house organic Pinot Grigio" quite a bit :wink:
(The grapes are 'Ruländer', if it is a German wine, btw.)

By golly, JL, I'm going to try that. Won't they be impressed when I drag out a box of Franzia and blow the dust off it?

Last week, we have been with our (A2K-) visitors to the German Blades Museum in Solingen (Diane and dys will probably remember that we had had coffee close to it) and there saw the painting of ...


Gabriel III. de la Cueva y Girón, Duke of Albuquerque




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