Weekend Update

Matt Veal flew in from Atlanta to visit for the weekend. It was good to see everyone's favorite overachieving investment banker again for the first time in over a year. Friday night included plenty of tequila and some pseudo-Mexican food, but no 'special London chants' from the visitor.

Saturday started with a visit to Borough Market and introducing Veal to a little bit of CrossFit. Then we setup on the couches with great beer and alot of meat and watched some great college football and played some video games. Highly reminiscent of our time spent senior year at Wake. LSU-Bama was a fantastic game, even to the point of taking the edge of my otherwise shutout weekend: Wake lost to BC, Texas lost to Kansas State (???), Stars lost, Mavs lost and Cowboys got embarrassed. Moral of the story: don't let me root for you in any way, shape or form.

We also watched the first two parts of The Pacific. Awesome.

Veal left early Sunday morning for his journey home, so I did my normal Sunday routine.

Quick Friday Thoughts

This week's sign of the apocalypse: J. Crew, Gucci and the like are designing manlier clothes... and some people are considering it manly. WTF?

Rather be lucky than good: business made a huge snap-back today on two fronts:
1. Diwali (I have lots of Indian counterparties)
2. Gold all-time high.

Veal is here. I am under specific instructions from his wife to get him hammered and steal his international-investment-banker blackberry. Tequila? Tequila.

NorCal Margaritas = paleo and better drinking through science (thanks Robb Wolf):
Two shots of gold tequila
Rocks - cold = good
Juice and pulp from one whole lime --> neutralizes the insulin spiking effect of the tequila
splash of club soda --> carbonation makes the booze go through quicker

What I'm listening to now: Gov't Mule. Check out "Soulshine" and "Slackjaw Jezebel"