Well. Seems about time that I get myself a blog as well. I used to have one where I posted my ramblings on EF, but that got closed a long ass time ago. However, every now and then I do miss posting about what makes me tick as a person, so this is as good a moment as any to start blogging again. I attempted some other blogs, like a technical blog, which I do admit got a bit of attention when I released some free scripts and tips and tricks, but overall, I ended up using it too little to be of any real significance. I also attempted to do something with Dutch proverbs, but ended up tossing the towel on that soon, too. The biggest issue starting a blog is always finding a witty and catchy title. Something people will remember and that's thus easy to find. I've been meaning to start a blog about whisky, to compliment the whisky business Lykke and myself run. The business was started two years ago, but other than myself and an ex-colleague, we're not having too many clients with it. I have a bunch of other domain names registered that point to it, and while trying to come up with a clever name for a blog, I ended up registering www.ihaveadram.com. Now for those of you not in the whisky-know, that might require some explanation. In Scotland, which is whisky walhalla, the native tongue is Gaelic. The Gaelic term for a shot of whisky is: a dram. So there you go. I have a dram. It's absolutely perfect. It's easy to remember, it's catchy, it's a pun (a form of humour I absolutely love), and it relates to whisky. Now all I need to figure out is how to actually get that famous MLK quote, and have "dream" replaced with dram. I'll name my blog here the same, and thus have an excuse to have a regular wee dram while I pour my soul into bits and bytes. Slinte!
I have a dram speech --- the original is rather long so I took a section of the refrain and rephrased it. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face poor distillations from cheap manufacturers, I still have a dram. It is a dram that deeply warms the hearts bellies of its imbibers! I have a dram! One day this dram will become an ocean, its alcoholic levels rising while preserving true peaty and oak barrel flavors! For all flavors are created equal! I have a dram, and one day single malt and double malt will meet together without fear of cheap corn shine and celebrate solemn distilled brotherhood. I have a dram, and through that dram even the state of inebriation, a state met with swiveling ankles and unpredictable sidewalks, hailed taxis and lost car keys, blackened eyes and unrecalled memories, this state will be met with smiles in succession as person by person is led into an alcoholic oasis! Yes that will be justice. And it is for that justice that I begin. I have a dram today!
