Day 623: Chocolate cider?!?
Nov. 29th, 2021 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeOn Mondays, we often eat a quick dinner with DG at the First National Taphouse, downtown, before the 6 pm Magic event at the nearby game store, and today followed that pattern. We can sit fairly far apart from the others, and on Mondays very few people are there until the musicians start showing up for open mic night. J usually orders a cider with his dinner, and he prefers the berry-flavored ones. Today they had two berry ciders: a blackberry-ginger cider and one described as chocolate-marionberry. Chocolate! We tasted them both, and the ginger was too strong, but the chocolate (more cacao, really) went very well with the marionberry, just as it does in cakes. So that's what he got. I loved it!
In addition to my tiny sips of cider (and two glasses of water) I had a bowl of chipotle-potato soup (creamy and spicy) and a large soft pretzel with three dips: beer-cheese, banana pepper, and apricot mustard.
J had invited another Magic player to join us, one DG and I hadn't met before, so he and DG were happily discussing the game with him, when G. showed up and came over to chat with me. (In addition to a psych professor, he's a singer-songwriter, in the style of Bob Dylan.) I tried to explain Magic to him, but he was having a hard time picturing cards that weren't standard playing cards or tarot cards, so when I was at the game store I bought him a pack and took it back to show him. He opened it and glanced through, but then the event was starting so he put it away. One of the other musicians was showing off his knowledge of Magic by loudly talking about a card called "M-O-X" worth "twenty-five-hundred dollars." (There are indeed several cards with "Mox" in their name and I wouldn't doubt that one is that expensive, given that Black Lotus is worth about $10,000.) It was fun to expand G's horizons a little bit.
In addition to my tiny sips of cider (and two glasses of water) I had a bowl of chipotle-potato soup (creamy and spicy) and a large soft pretzel with three dips: beer-cheese, banana pepper, and apricot mustard.
J had invited another Magic player to join us, one DG and I hadn't met before, so he and DG were happily discussing the game with him, when G. showed up and came over to chat with me. (In addition to a psych professor, he's a singer-songwriter, in the style of Bob Dylan.) I tried to explain Magic to him, but he was having a hard time picturing cards that weren't standard playing cards or tarot cards, so when I was at the game store I bought him a pack and took it back to show him. He opened it and glanced through, but then the event was starting so he put it away. One of the other musicians was showing off his knowledge of Magic by loudly talking about a card called "M-O-X" worth "twenty-five-hundred dollars." (There are indeed several cards with "Mox" in their name and I wouldn't doubt that one is that expensive, given that Black Lotus is worth about $10,000.) It was fun to expand G's horizons a little bit.