bars, beers, blogs.... and the beatles.

Well...

I never know how to begin.

Anything, really; least of all a blog.

Specifically... is this a blog about bars? About bartenders, bartending... or just some unassuming, sometimes drunkenly (it's realistic) assuming psychological game of scatagories writ from the mind of someone who probably should not be given yet another forum to make himself known.

What's the reason? Hell, what's the rhyme?

I never know how to begin these things....

So I'll start like this:

On the walk home tonight, I saw a man, clearly intoxicated, possibly insane, smack the back of a bus as it drove off. I couldn't tell if in his mind, the public transit vehicle was an enemy, or some ship that he himself were christening to give it safe voyage.

These are the things I think about.

Lately my life has been an endless series of invoices and inventory. Of making best attempts at creativity, but feeling creatively stifled by a lack of sleep and too many hours on the grind. The life of doing the job; or the lifestyle the job entails.

Which came first, the alcoholic or the gig?

I first thought about this whole blogging thing by listening to two of my best friends, who have blogs of their own, go on about the positive things it can do for ones career.

But I wonder; can I actually blog about cocktails?

I honestly don't know. I don't think about cocktails outside of making them while I'm making them. Typically. Sometimes I get a splash of inspiration and get that electric rush of wanting to rush to work and make it and see how it turns out. And usually, albeit sometimes it absolutely turns out to be the biggest piece of shit-swill one could ever imagine; sometimes it's a smash!

But I spend almost 60 hours, often times more, thinking about work, and bar tending, and cocktails, and menus, and cost, and orders, and my staff, and so on and so forth and so forth and so forth....

I don't think I can blog about any of that.

So I'll blog about something else.

What it is, I don't know yet.

Perhaps I'll figure that out in the 2nd post.

Hi, my name is Casey.

I'm a bit of a functioning alcoholic, a novice bar manager, a helluva bartender, and a pretty good guy who's just started a blog.

Oh, the possibilities.