"Why is it when something bad happens, it's always you three?"

[torino10154]

Welcome to the 'Travel' edition of firewhiskeyfic! We, your Mods - sdk and torino10154, are so glad you could make it. We love everyone today. Feel free to friend us on DW. We promise not to stalk you... much. :D

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Minerva McGonagall

Portkey

Sex on the Beach

Lost Luggage

Sweater Weather

Trains, Planes and Automobiles


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Torino plans to start with a rum and Coke while Shelly has had something come up at the last minute and probably can't make it tonight. That's all right though, Torino will drink enough for two! :D

Let's get our drunk on!

Comments

[torino10154]

It might be a quiet evening as bumps and divots seem to be springing up for a bunch of folks this round. Check in and say hey if you're here or plan to be here later or just want a chat. *nurses drink*

[lightofdaye]

Hey Hey! I am here. Punctually.

Work meeting

[oldtoadwoman]

I got my booze. I'm ready to go. And... Boss just texted that he wants to have a quick meeting. So I'm sitting here staring at the booze I can't start drinking waiting for the dude who requested the meeting to actually show up. ::sigh::

Re: Work meeting

[lightofdaye]

Ugh. Luckily never out of hours but the number of times my boss has been like 'have you got two seconds for a call?' I've responded 'yeah' then waited around for 10-15 minutes for them to actually call, is too many.

[a_belladonna]

I know the theme this time was "Travel Edition", but since I have to go to work tomorrow and thus don't how long I'll last, and because August for some reason is Pride Month where I live, I've dug out the Skittles Shots I made a year ago. :D
One of them has lost its colour, haha. I think it's the red one.

ETA: Pride Month as in "the big Pride Parade through the capital was today", hence the rainbow-themed choice of drinks. :)

[torino10154]

It's very clear that this round is a challenge for ALL. Whatever works is definitely good enough.

Funny that one lost its color!!

[lightofdaye]

So... drink selection? I have a can of coke and a bottle of captain morgan's spiced rum.

The can of coke is from the local corner shop and is marked in polish. I am in the Uk.

I suspect this shop's stock fell off of the back of something.

[torino10154]

The way things are going today, I am not sure I'd drink that. LOLOLOLOL

[a_belladonna]

I don't have Wordpad since upgrading to Windows 11. :( Or, rather, I have it, but they want me to pay for it.

So. Am I going with the really old-school Notepad, or do I use this opportunity to give my Kink Bingo card a try?

(I think it's more fun to use programs with absolutely no built-in spellchecks or dictionaries for FWF)

[lightofdaye]

does using kink bingo card somehow mean youdon't need notepad?

i used notpad++ for writing headers and masterlists anything requiring html and have libreoffice for word processing and such.

one shot in!

[oldtoadwoman]

Per tradition, the first shot is straight. Everything after this gets a mixer.

Re: one shot in!

[torino10154]

Bottoms up!

drinks and provisions

[shaddyr]

I have a tripple Manhattanm a back up cider and a Purdy's chocoat,s smores bar.

Geeze! I am only a half drink in and alreday with the typos.

granted, is half a triple. But still. kay, better start wreiting.

Re: drinks and provisions

[torino10154]

LOL You do seem ready to go! :D

[lightofdaye]

i have the prompts atthe top of a doc. that counts a progress riht?

woot

[oldtoadwoman]

yay, accomplishmetn!

[a_belladonna]

It always feels like an accomplishment, when HP makes an appearance in other fandoms: https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotonmemes/comments/15jsu1h/the_iconic_trio_strikes_once_again/

None of my colleagues at work understood this one, though -_-

[lightofdaye]

sorry add me to the list of non-understanders. wait did they not understand the hp part or the captions?

i get the hp reference but not the new labels.

i'm now eating lunch to balance out the booze because whoa the booz ies winning right now

[oldtoadwoman]

I'm a bad fan. I can't remember the names of anyone and I'm just picturing actors from the movies and I'm googling "harry potter actoer with the square facE" and google ahs no fucking idea. and now Im second guessing if this dude was even in harry potter or not.

Re: i'm now eating lunch to balance out the booze because whoa the booz ies winning right now

[lightofdaye]

don;t call him square face. it's circle, or triangle. what shape is a compliment? square face is almost here and you're stuck on shapes.

/scrubs reference. god scrubs is old now.

[lightofdaye]

i jsut made a typo, forgot i wasn't supposed to backspace, delted it and remade the exact same typo.

whee

[oldtoadwoman]

Bwahaha! Thi sis how you know you belong here.

So boozy cherries...

[shaddyr]

so I had like 5 cherries at ht ebottom of mt drin,. Whiche ended up complet,y satureat with whisley. But not fire whiskey and all I coulds think is, that would be cool if the cheries wher on fire.

Sorryh, off topci I know./

on relevant topics, I have 452 words so far. DUDE! That is the most I have written in like 4 years! YATY!

Re: So boozy cherries...

[oldtoadwoman]

Rah rah!

sadness

[oldtoadwoman]

I have sad news to report. I have eaten all the toast. There is no wore towast. :-( I ned to figure out how to arrange for someone else to feed me during Firewhiskeys because I need to keep writing but ... want foods.

Re: sadness

[lightofdaye]

i hear if you push the writing buttons on a phone or computer a person will magically arrive from outside with food!

[lightofdaye]

sorry for disappearing as you mighthave relaised i waswriting.

now the worstt hing. having to fill in the header.

[torino10154]

The worst (besides titles and summaries).

Drunk Redactle!

[oldtoadwoman]

I just realized that I have no tdoen Redactle yet today. Drunk Redactle!!

Re: Drunk Redactle!

[lightofdaye]

*clicks link* oof, i wouldn't ne able totackle that even if i was sober

[a_belladonna]

They'd warned about heavy rain tonight, and sure enough, it began within the last 20 minutes or so. So I think I'll call it a night and turn my computer off. It was fun, even if it "only" was 2 hours tonight. :)

[torino10154]

Glad you could pop in!! Stay safe.

[lightofdaye]

i have a couple of pieces of toast and a lot of water

[shaddyr]

God, now I want toast too. Prollyt should have water.

words!

[oldtoadwoman]

Okay, i have a respectible word count going. I've even shoehorned in a couple of prompts. nwo if I can jsut figure out what this sotyr is about.

Re: words!

[torino10154]

You've done the important part. *nods*

[torino10154]

I'm finally having some dinner then I'm going to start the drinking and writing. :)

Dinner is salami, fresh mozzarella and roasted peppers on a baguette.

[lightofdaye]

dinner of champions

[lightofdaye]

Good night all, thanks for keeping me company and putting up with me.

good luck to everyone with writing and surviving.

[torino10154]

Night! Thanks for participating!

almost there

[oldtoadwoman]

I just need to figure out how to end this thing and I'm all good.

Re: almost there

[torino10154]

Woohoo! Iv'e started mine so yay. lol

[torino10154]

I ahve written Wrods! :D

writing

[oldtoadwoman]

Go you!

I'm jsujt STARING at mine willing it to reach a conclusion. Nohtings happening and I'm telling teh characters to DO SOMETHING and they're just like, "Nah, don't wanna."

I’m here!

[songquake]

Heyyyy…
So I am here and will be chasing my sushi dinner with ouzo, which I first tried while traveling in Greece. Yum! And when I run out of that I have some rum on hand. International drinking FTW!

I also anticipate getting drunk super quick, since I already feel underwater with allergies/sinus congestion. Haven’t had any Benadryl, so as to drink safely. Because priorities.

(And am late due to facilitating a 2-hour national Zoom call from 5-7 EDT. But I am here!

Re: I’m here!

[torino10154]

WQelcome welcime!! So glad to see yoiu!!

[torino10154]

I think I'm going to hit the hay. Sorry to miss the latecomers.

Feel free to announce your arrival and departure so folks know who is here.

Don't forget to drink lots of water when you're done drunkening.

[songquake]

Sleep well!

[ride_4ever]

Just now arriving here at close to 10 PM Chicago time. My regrets to all who have been posting comments for hours, but I can only cope if I go forward from right here rather than backtracking.

For those who don't know why I've been missing so far today from FWF: My laptop was in the repair shop all week because I was having crash dumps and artifacts. I was so worried about not getting it back in time for FWF, but I got it back yesterday, so I thought all was cool. Then when I got it home I discovered that the repair tech had only done a partial job and that there was still something wrong with it so I took it back and hung around the vicinity of the repair place for many hours, dreading the thought that if they didn't get it right I would be losing over a decade of fannish stuff, vids and docs and fanart. Now I gotta say THANK FUCK it's all fixed with everything saved and the laptop functioning so I can be just late for FWF rather than absent.

I was gonna make cocktails during this FWF, but with this late start I gotta move faster on the drunkening. I'm working on drinking this whole bottle of Huckleberry Wine. It's a fandom-related bottle in that every year when I go to Con*Strict in Henderson, Nevada a few of us fen stay a day longer than the con and go to some of the wineries in Pahrump. This is one of the bottles from Pahrump.

computer

[oldtoadwoman]

Oh, ugh, that sounds super stressful. I'm done with my drunk fic and am in the process of sobering up (which for me means I'm now in that phase where I want to eat everything in the kitchen), but I'll be loitering online for a couple more hours.