Sangria de Cava and Summer Plans
So obviously I don’t write for this as much as I thought I would. Also, to be fair, once I really got going with this semester I didn’t even read as much as I thought I would. But I’ve got a whole two weeks of summer vacation here before my next class starts, so I might as well write through them because once you spend every weekend for 6 weeks writing you can’t go to back to Rainbow Six all day without feeling guilty.
As I sit here writing about The Grid by Gretchen Bakke I decided to mix up a little Sangria de Cava from the Columbia Café down in Tampa. The Columbia Café is just about one of the only things Tampa does right, and this drink is by far the best part. A bottle of Spanish Cava (Spanish bubbly), half a bottle of Grand Marnier, an orange, a lemon, and a lime.
The Columbia Café sits downtown in the Tampa Bay History Center, next to the Ice Palace (it’ll never be the St. Pete Times Forum or the (shudder) Amalie Arena to me), and along the admittedly very nice Riverwalk. The Café is basically the exact same menu from the famous Columbia restaurant in Ybor City, but half the price and also not in Ybor City. If you go, try the Salteado, or Cuban-style Chinese food.
Anyway, this post is a bit of a “for real this time!” for me. Books, beer, and the future has a ton of potential so this summer, for real, once a week. I’ve read enough books now that I can just go back and pull one of the shelf and write about it. Like the one I’m writing about now (or next, whatever) The Grid. I read this last summer, but never got around to writing about it. So see you next time when we talk all about why the electric grid sucks and we’re just a tree branch falling on a wire away from the stone age!
Books, Beer, and the Future 