• Chit chat: why we sound different, drink check
• Oregon trip: (Rowan stops by to chat), hanging with friends, the Rose Parade, Lost Lake, the beer store and its neighborhood, crazy Texas liquor laws
• Kitchen Konfidential Kompleat?: down to the ground, slidey mesquite floors, chipped granite(, five-burner stove goodness, small oven, can’t finish the slideshow, Frank’s brass furnace
• Cooking fun: smoked turkey gumbo, holiday chili
• Winter garden: spicy lettuce, drying peppers
• Holidays: Hosting Thanksgiving, Christmas toys
• New computer: DIY home theater, hacking Frank’s email, new obsession
• Cross-examination in the community
• End-of-year vacation: outings with kids, travels to Denton, Frank finds a Felker
• Tech Talk: iPad Mini critic guys a Mini, new Google Maps app has issues, iTunes 11 sucks
• Cocktail Talk: Whiskies of the World comes to Austin, donga punch, volcano bowl, planning the spring tiki crawfish boil, 26th anniversary coming up, Jack’s car
• (Beggin for) Feedback city

Keep in Touch: Shelly’s Podcast Facebook Fan Page

Link-O-Rama: Belmont Station, German smoked beer, For Whatever Reason, Mackie 402-VLZ3 mixer, Rode NG2 shotgun mic, MythTV, Bar Congress

• Chit chat: drink check, awkward segueing
• Prolific gardening: the squash sickness, milspec tomato cages, planting at my sister’s, (pause to waive at the neighbors), sharing the produce, walking sticks eat our mint leaves
• Kitchen Konfidential: the date is set, driving to get the mesquite, surprising the wood, sorting the boards, another “thing you can get in the back of a Prius”, cabinet fixin, no kitchen for a month, finding tiny ovens, Sears is cool (who knew?), new freezer, granite is fun!
• Potentially stalking podcasters in Oregon

  Return to the studio
  
  

• California: Shelly the film geek, seeing 2 rare Spencer Tracy films, travel tips, lunch in Santa Monica, whisky bar, booze sexism, dinner in LA, double-decker tourist, wandering into a Beverly Hills hotel, more incredible whiskies, North Face snobs, rare movie night at the Billy Wilder Theater

  …and out to the porch
  

• Drink check: sipping Zacapa 23 and the Ardbeg Alligator, Japanese whisky
• Thyroid surgery: hospital virgin, medical payment unpredictability, upsetting stuff while groggy, talking to the doc, recovery, my smiley scar, pie and lentils
• Observing the natives on our street: drivers and children and cell phones
• iPad stand goodness: podcast with a mic mounted on a microphone stand
• More ruminations on the murder of walking sticks. and crawfish boils, and more cats
• Thanks for Web site help
• Feedback city

Link-O-Rama: Balvennie Smash cocktail, For Whatever Reason, The Flatus Show, Gag the Manager, Life of Spaguy’s Wife, GigEasy, The Daily Pint, WhiskyCast, Tucker Professional Web Services, GeekFit, Beatweek, Overheard at Disneyland, Disney Day Trippers