• Chit chat: Hot inside and out, thanks for thoughts about Smeagol, mom has a new cat
• Title voting: please join the Facebook fan page
• Tomato bounty: have the kids do it kids pick 30, my sister’s on Twitter, turning tomatoes into sauce, resisting the telling of boring green tomato story, kids pick 50+
• Parenting by proxy: hiding objects from the baby, tiny theft, important parenting moment, modern adult angst, sad little girl, the apology, mom approval, Shelly’s mockable angst
• Hello Kitty: Boys calming down, taking Norbert the extra mile to breakfast
• Tech Talk: Twitter celebrities, (iPhone), family devotion in bios, stop the positive thinking
• Shameless plugs: Voice acting in When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth
• Feedback city

Link-O-Rama: Shelly’s Podcast Facebook fan page, all star cat wrestling on YouTube, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, Pizza Go Here, Tastes Like Burning

• Farewell, Smeagol
• New Orleans, part two
• Geeking out about gin
• Frank’s clothing (optional)
• Old reliable dinner
• Absinthe rules: don’t set it on fire!
• Swag shipping: fearful of TSA swipeage, schlepping to the FedEx office, self-packing, abortive bribery, waiting for the box and the St. Germain cough syrup
• And now it’s time to play “What stupid crap is on TV?”, MJ’s missing, orgasms, Fox News, the shipwreck channel
• Cocktail book buying
• Last drinks: Frank’s cocktails, Shelly stumps the bartender
• Travel day: airplane travel is teh suck, NOLA airport gumbo thumbs up, (cat acrobatics), cat debris
• Frank addresses his public: slow social networking, detailed and technical potato feedback

Link-O-Rama: Sazerac, Joy of Mixology, French 75

• Chit chat: what date, cute companions, voicemail rescheduled to next show, how to pronounce New Orleans, podcasting beer
• Pre-New Orleans cocktails: quick drink, unplanned delays
• Training for the week: power outlets, reclining seats, cold, swampy scenery
• Settling In: Resting up, free Internet, minimal registration packet, cocktails in the hall, (Frank sleeps), swag hag, (Frank sleeps), project run-n-hide preview, tasteapalooza
• Cocktail tour: famous bar and restaurant landmarks, Frank enjoys a cocktail, mardi gras segregated?
• Cocktail tweetup: free booze at Bar Tonique
• Educational boozing, spirit tasting…SCARY, famously rude people, rum zacapa is YUM, no recipe cards :(, (Rowan drops by)
• “Drunks” in the lobby: promoters, Tales is not a trade show, rampant sponsorship
• Spirited Dinner: menu, Frank enjoys the giant gin bottle, the ice cube people, free food

• Chit chat: Holiday greetings, begs for voicemails, podcasters, please include your phone number, never make excuses for not doing a show, Shelly makes excuses for not doing a show, title picker
• News: New news bumper, tiny toms, Kids will tomato sit, plants become monstrously big, Facebook Frank, mom will probably go online, sister wants to Facebook with mom, coffee quality disruption,
• Hello Kitty: Desktop freeway for Rowan, brother love, or something else?, walking Norbert to breakfast
• Cocktail talk: Annie’s, my cocktail party, headed to Tales of the Cocktail
• Feedback city
  

  
  Link-O-Rama: Tipsy Texan, Shelly on MacVoices and Maccast