You Can Always Trust Vodka!

I Have trusted Vodka many, many times.  Let's see...
1.  That time that I thought I could jump off the balcony into the backseat of my friends convertible (result=Broken Ankle)
2.  The time that vodka kept telling me to go home with that beauty at the bar who was giving me the eye (result = went home at 2 with a 10 and  woke up at 10 with a 2.)
3.  Once, Vodka made me walk home from downtown after I lost my wallet and had no $$$ (result = Got lost, passed out in a ditch, woke up the next morning covered in mud and still 2 miles from my house.)


There's been others, but I don't remember them as well as those three.  As you can, see, I have trusted the Vodka and it continually lets me down!

Happy Paratrooper Day!

Aug. 2 is Paratrooper Day in Russia: 

Officially, the day is celebrated with cadet marches and memorials. Unofficially, the elite troops start drinking at sunrise, then head off to city parks to brawl. Migrant workers from Central Asia have been targets of violence on past Paratrooper Days, and the Federation of Migrants of Russia issued a public warning to avoid parks, train stations and commuter trains, and anywhere else paratroopers might be celebrating on Thursday. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow similarly sent out an announcement, saying that while the majority of the celebrations are “jovial and peaceful,” Americans in Russia would be wise to steer clear of “any large crowds and public gatherings that lack enhanced security measures.”

And in order to protect the drunks, Gorky Park fountains are drained to help keep the drunks from drowning.