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Here are a few ideas for you as we approach the Christmas Holiday for any of your friends that drink or mix drinks or for yourself. The Soda Stream http://www.sodastreamusa.com This is a must have at anyone’s Bar. I have been using one of these for the last three months and it is now an essential item here at MySideOfTheBar. The process to create a liter of mixer is very quick. The finished product is fantastic and I challenge you to take a taste test against your favorite mixers. Check out the web site Soda Stream.com for a neat video on the usage. The Soda Stream comes with a huge sampler pack so you can try several of the popular flavors. My two main stays are Diet Tonic and Diet Lemon Lime. However the Diet Root Beer is absolutely fantastic. As per the Soda Stream Website the three No’s of the Soda Stream are: No Lugging – The bottle the mixers come in are small and hold enough to create the equivalent of 33 cans of your mixer. No Storing – The bottles are very small...

It is that time of year again where we all pause to give thanks, unfortunately I usually (thanks to drinking) cannot seem to remember what we are giving thanks for :). So as I was sitting at one of my favorite bars last weekend the talk turned to the upcoming holiday and we drifted to the subject of our favorite TV shows about, what else, Turkey Day! So here are my top five favorite Thanksgiving Themed TV shows. Number 5: Friends, the one with football. Yes my friends and I used to do the same thing on Thanksgiving, except after we ate. Chandler: Do you want to go shotgun? Ross: Yea! Number 4 – Seinfeld, The Mom and Pop Store. Who can forget, John Voight’s car (Doesn’t John spell his name Jon? Maybe Jon misspelled his own name) and the take on “The Midnight Cowboy as well as Mr. Pitt  and the parade. Number 3 – Cheers, Thanks Giving Orphans . If you have not seen this you need to check it out. This reminds all of us how dysfunctional Holidays can be. One...

I was sitting in one of my favorite bars the other day, The Classic Cup on the Plaza and made a remark to Central Patti about how good of time we were having. This made me think, “Why do we go to bars to drink?” After all we can drink for free at home, or so some tell me. If you Google the term you can find many humorous WebPages on topic so I thought I would try to list my top five reasons we go to bars or pubs. 5. Happy Hour Appetizer Specials – If you do your homework and shop around you can find many places that offer terrific happy hour specials on food (as well as drinks) and today most even carry a health menu. 4. The Atmosphere – Who does not like sitting in a bar enjoying all the sights and sounds going on around you as you imbibe your favorite cocktail. There is something very relaxing and yes even somewhat therapeutic. 3. The Music – I love going to lounges to hear the lounge singers and performers. Some of my favorite places in K.C. are the Copa Room, Odowd’s and Jardine...

The other evening we were in a nice Martini Bar and I noticed a table of four your women. Now you can guess as to why I noticed them, but you may not be able to guess what I remember about the scene. All four were on their cell phones either texting (may have been Tweeting) or talking to someone else! Why would you bother to arrange to have Martini’s with your friends if you were going to talk/text others anyway? Now I am fairly new to texting and I decided when I do text if I have to type over three letters or so for a sentence then I am probably not going to text. My first experience with texting I did not have a “Smart Phone” so texting was slow and tedious. Now I am not all that unfamiliar with three letter abbreviations. The first I remember was from my teen years, NO PDA! You will also recall that in the 80’s PDA took on a whole different meaning (Well so did the word Gay) Profound Usage Or would that be profane? Well the next shortcut I remember, again before electronic media w...

A few weeks back I had the opportunity to complete in a fishing contest/derby. Now I admit that that participating in an event like this may at first seem like a long way from MySideOfTheBar, however I soon found out that I could enjoy both a cocktail as well as a cigar while wetting a line so I had to enter. I have not fished much in recent years, but as a young boy I used to fish all the time. In fact I have many stories about fishing as a youth that will be coming to the Blog in the future. The tournament directory was J.C. who was assisted by D.B. The rules were simple: Entry Fee: $10.00 Starting Time: 10:00 A.M. on the start of the air horn. End Time: 3:00 P.M. with the sound of an air horn. You had to fish from the docks at the condo. Only Condo Owners Crappies Only Prizes awarded to and split between: Most fish caught or first one to the limit (15 Crappies over 9 and a half inches long) Largest Fish. As was the norm for a Sunday we took a walk to breakfast so two of us, myself a...