Achievement Unlocked: Brooklyn Bar

I have found my home bar in Brooklyn.  Its a lovely place, only a short 40 minute walk from my apartment.  They don't serve Captain, so I guess I'll survive on whiskey.

Drinking alone is still...meh.  In addition to attending things that Colleen invites me to, drinking alone seems to be the one other thing I'm supposed to do in order to meet people in a new city.  And, other people are probably great at it.  Maybe everyone else on the planet was born with this social gene that makes it really easy to make friends in bars.  Me, I show up in a bar, and there's like 3 people there.  Like in the entire building.  Including the cook.  Sometimes one of them might want to talk to me, a little.  I don't know.  I'm tempted to read but I've been told not to do that.  The apex of my socialization is often a short chat with the bartender about whether the Gimlet I ordered is going to be more of a Gin or more of a Vodka kind of situation.  And then that's pretty much it.  I stumble home a few hours later, sleepy, $80 poorer and wake up to a terrible hangover the next day.

So, next goal:  find a home bar in Manhattan, so that I can start drinking before I even get on the train.  I mean I also need to ramp up salsa dancing more, start going to a martial arts class (preferably a flavor of karate that is effective against cops), and maybe start climbing again.  Oh shit, and something about volleyball.  We can call those stretch goals though.  I should also probably take up Colleen on one of her invitations, but so far I have misunderstood or forgotten every one of them, so her patience is probably gone where I'm concerned.  I'm pretty sure she's only trying to hang out because she doesn't remember how annoying she thinks I am.

p.s. I was exaggerating earlier.  There's usually like 5 people in the bar, not 3.