Without transportation or funds, it gets to be a bit difficult to go out
-- like, it pretty much never happens for me.

But my good friend Jennifer asked me to go out last night to a bar/club
to hear a really interesting variety of local women artists.  I tried a
beer from Italy, Old Speckled Hen from England, and topped it off with a
good ol' St. Pauli Girl from Germany.  The music was fabulous, ranging
from bluegrass, to folk, to rock.  I was very happy to get to hear Donna
Mogavero again; she's a local whom I haven't heard for awhile, but who
is absolutely excellent.  She mentioned something about some terrible
incident in her life, but didn't go into detail.  Come to find out, she
fell on stage last year and broke her hip and shattered her pelvis!  I
stopped by her table last night to say hi, but had I known then, I'm
sure we could have had one heck of a commiseration conversation!

People there were really nice; in spite of the cold, there were smiles
everywhere.  The waitress was absolutely awesome; I have no idea how she
kept track of so many orders and zipped them to their appropriate
patrons with such speed.

All in all, a wonderful evening.  And we're going out again tomorrow!  A
mutual friend who has her own natural beauty products business is having
her yearly open house, so we will get to visit with Kris, and sniff the
delightful smells of her herbal products while eating some nice
munchies.  Sounds good to me :-)

Ginger-lyn
who *really* should get out more

obCats:  It sounds like Pinky may be just what Jen's friend needs.  I
emailed Jen some adorable new photos of him; still keeping my fingers
crossed, though I will miss him terribly when he finds that one true
forever home.