Lunch IPA

Met my wife for lunch at Mad Mex. Mmmm... they have a yummy chimmy changa. Had a tall Titan IPA to wash it all down.

Location: Mad Mex
Event: Lunch with my Lovely Wife
Amount Spent on Alcohol: $6.00
Tax Spent: $0.60
2008 Cumulative Drink Tax: $47.43
PAT Usage: 0

Normal After Work Round

Stopped by SoHo with a couple of co-workers after a late night of creating proposal. Got there around 11:30pm and stayed for an hour. Had three beers and went home

Location: SoHo
Event: Drinks after work
Amount Spent on Alcohol: $16.50
Tax Spent: $1.65
2008 Cumulative Drink Tax: $46.83
PAT Usage: 0

Bew Pub

Met the wife and boys at John Harvards Brew Pub after work - had a nice dinner complimented by two brown ales. I highly recommend their brown ale. Good stuff.

Location: John Harvard's Brew Pub - Wilkins Township
Event: Dinner
Amount Spent on Alcohol: $13.60
Tax Spent: $1.36
2008 Cumulative Drink Tax: $45.18
PAT Usage: 0

Pens Game and Fat Heads

Went to a 3pm Pens game with my brother-in-law. For some reason, when we get together we always find beer and plenty of it. It was a good game, but the Pens lost in the shoot out. We managed to mysterously find ourselves at Fatheads after the game eating a pile of wings. Oh man... Fatheads has the best wings on earth.

Location: Mellon Arena and Fatheads
Event: Pens Game and Really Good Hot Wings
Amount Spent on Alcohol: $42.50
Tax Spent: $4.25
2008 Cumulative Drink Tax: $43.82
PAT Usage: 0

Eleven

Went out with some coworkers and their spouses for an excellent dinner at Eleven. I highly recommend this place, by the way. While they have a fantastic wine menu, we opted to stick with beer. And boy did we. The food was great, the drinks kept coming, and the conversation was pleasant. Lot's of laughing - all the way around.

Location: Eleven
Event: food and festivities
Amount Spent on Alcohol: $38.50
Tax Spent: $3.85
2008 Cumulative Drink Tax: $39.57
PAT Usage: 0

Blast from the Past

OK... my buddy calls me last minute and says that he has tickets to Gene Loves Jezebel - a flamboyant alternative, new-wave band from the '80's. In case you didn't know, I was a skateboarder back in high school and listened to all kinds of crazy music - from early alternative to punk to ska to hardcore.

So, anyway, I didn't have anything to do after the traditional church fish fry - so I said, "sure, I'll meet you there". The show was at Clube Diesel - the opitome of cheeze when it comes to venues - and the crowd was full of middle-aged ex-alternative rockers. It was a fairly unsightly crowd of people that used to congregate at the Upstage Lounge or Metropol back in the day.

Anyway, the show was OK. It was enjoyable enough and it brought back a lot of memories. They certainly played all thier "hits". Afterwards, we walked down to Dee's to play some pool and pound a few more Iron Cities. Had a nice night out with my high school buddies.


Location: Club Diesel and Dees
Event: Concert and
Amount Spent on Alcohol: $28.50
Tax Spent: $2.85
2008 Cumulative Drink Tax: $35.72
PAT Usage: 0

Couple of Beers After Work

Stopped in at SoHo and bought a round for the crew before heading home. Much needed alcohol

Location: SoHo on the Northshore
Event: After work round of booze
Amount Spent on Alcohol: $22.25
Tax Spent: $2.23
2008 Cumulative Drink Tax: $32.87
PAT Usage: 0