I recently discovered that the skeleton wears a size 5XL t-shirt, so we've got a whole wardrobe now.

Ladies and Gentlemen, after eleven years and three months, Above DNA has finally drained its Galliano bottle.

If you walk into any bar and look far to the side, on the top shelf, there will be a bottle of Galliano liqueur. You can tell how long the bar has been in business by how much of that bottle is left. That's because that bottle was purchased with that bar's very first liquor order, and they never re-ordered it. They bought it because their liquor distributor rep told them that this was a standard thing that every bar has, and either they believed them, or the rep threw it in for free anyway.

It's not a bad liqueur, it's just that nobody has ordered a Harvey Wallbanger since Airplane was in theatres.

It's up on the top shelf because the bottle is 18" tall, and most other bottles are between 10" and 12".

So if the bar's shelves are spaced 20" apart, you can also tell that someone made the terrible decision of: "What's the tallest bottle we have? I guess that's how tall our shelves should be." Some high-end tequilas also have weirdly tall bottles, but they are very much outliers.

Since every bottle has to has its own custom shape because reasons, my strong suspicion is that most liquor companies are fundamentally in the glass-blowing business with a side-hustle in liquor production.

This time it was by what appear to be a pair of slithering fucking Jawas. I guess our efforts on hardening our front doors was successful, because this time they pried up the pizza roll-up door, which (until yesterday) I would have characterized as "extremely difficult".

Unlike the last guy, they didn't pose for a selfie for us.

This is calling into question whether we should even have ATMs at all. We have to run some reports to be sure, but if there's now going to be a multi-thousand dollar burglary tax a couple of times a year, it's not obvious to me that the money we make in ATM service fees covers that any more.

This is very annoying to me, as someone who pays for everything in cash when possible (partly out of a reflexive-but-futile do-not-track instinct, and partly because I'd rather that all of the money go to the business instead of around 3.5% of it going to parasitic middlemen in fees).

Also extremely annoying: three weeks ago I put out a call for donations, as the DNA Lounge financial situation has again gotten extremely dire. We got a few thousand dollars in donations, which, while not enough to keep the lights on, was definitely helpful, and means a lot to us.

And now that money and more just walked out the fucking door on Sunday night.

This constant "two steps forward, six steps back" shit is just exhausting.