> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://thedailyeudemon.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Friday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/43516/
- Published: 2017-09-01T07:10:26.000Z
- Updated: 2017-09-01T07:10:26.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![IMG_3150](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_31501-225x300.jpg)

Brews You Can Use

A sad BYCU. We take Michael to college today. Life marches on inexorably. It beats not marching, of course, but it's still melancholic. The occasion will no doubt call for a few drinks this evening, once we get back and plunk ourselves down after a long day of driving and unpacking.

Michael is number four, so we have now shipped off more than half of them, leaving us with just three. I told Number 5, Meg, that Marie and I are empty-nesters. When she protested on grounds that we still have three kids home, I told her, "Yeah, but all the cool kids are gone." She simply reminded me that I used the same line two years ago when we packed Jack away to college land.

I've been drinking a lot of gin lately. I think it's because of the tonic water I buy: Fever Tree. It simply tastes far better with gin than vodka. There's supposedly a Mediterranean Fever Tree tonic that is meant for vodka, but I've never found it. Vodka is still preferred if I'm mixing something more elaborate than tonic, but for a quick drink, gin and tonic has become my go-to.

I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend. Just as Memorial Day is the first step to summer, Labor Day is the first step to fall.

Melancholic, indeed.