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Of WordPress templates and the Plaza barman’s cure

So I’m still playing with templates - it’s not really been hours and hours, but it is on the “not fun” side of things. I’m trying to decide if I liked calendar display enough to bring it back. It served some function to help me recall the date and the world at large, but was very hard to alter design-wise. Devoted readers might recall the calendar remained a pale blue on the old install - I never took the time to hack it apart. We’ll have to see how badly I munge things together. I’m still hacking away off a site design done for me by my good friend Erich Schmidt of Pixelbrew (not Google) - where he did a mostly table-free CSS design with a three column layout. The defaults only have 2 columns, and that just seems like wasted space (elegance schmelegance).

Back in the fort, Mike looks worse and worse. I’ve no idea how he feels because he’s sleeping most of the time. But he’s got the death under his eyes and big black splotches. So far I’ve had no symptoms.

I’ve been plying him with a modified never-fail Plaza Hotel Barman’s Cure, which I had at the Plaza in NY while at some bubble era Internet conference. I was getting a travel-cold and went there for soup (we were staying at the Palace for gods sake, poor .com fools, so the Plaza would surely be top of mind for these guys). I had a nice bisque and a glass of wine, but it wasn’t really doing the trick. So chatting with the bartender I mentioned I was fighting a cold and he said “I know what you need!”, and started bustling. He made this tea concoction which, I swear, went straight to my toes. It hasn’t done that since, but that could be because I’m not a Plaza barman. Or maybe it was because actor Jeremy Irons was in the bar (looking average-Joe, but still with a cool voice).

Anyhow here’s the recipe:

Plaza Barman Cure
Earl Grey teabags + Honey + Lemon + Jack Daniels + Cinnamon
Brew the tea, add the lemon and honey to taste (lots of it). In this case, the modifications have been no whiskey and adding cinnamon sticks and dried orange peel to the teapot.

Enjoy!