Good Friday - Acquiring alcohol

Lyaiera wrote: »

I like to think with a pint. I've written novels sitting at a bar with a pint of stout, and pencil and notepad. It's not so much the booze, although the mind lubricating effect of one or two beers certainly helps. It's the atmosphere of the pub. Especially a pub at this hour of the day, when it's mostly empty and the barman/barwoman will occasionally hustle up to you to ask how you're getting on. As well as the act of being perched up next to the bar counter, with a tall seat forcing you to be right on top of your notepad. The acceptance in a pub for shying away from people, and not being cheery and social is a big plus. You're allowed to contemplate the deep things in life, even if you're the shallowest thinker imaginable. Instead a café seem to require some amount of sociability, and looking like you have it together during your chatty chat with your bestie about the latest ska. No plumbing the depths of the unthinkable in a café.

I've been learning to program. I've had many failed attempts, but get further with each stab at it. I've actually implemented something this time, and now I need to draw up a design document to give me some idea of where to go with it and what to do to make the game fun. I'd like nothing more than a quiet bar, where I could sit with my notebook and plan out the game. But today is not the day for that. Even if I could only have a coffee in the pub, the dark, worn wood surroundings are what I need.

I'll have to find a café somewhere, with a comfortable seat for hustling up close to the table.