- 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
Link-O-Rama: Tales of the Cocktail, French 75, Sidecar, Pimm’s Cup, App Store Pundit, Red Fish Grill, Kold-Draft Ice