Caution: Hard Hat Zone
Well, looks like The Nut House isn't gonna be as "divey" as originally planned. The Health Dept. is making me strip the entire interior. Seems there's mold throughout the place, guess that's why it was such a deal.

So, I've got to choose a new interior on top of everything else, any suggestions? I'm not putting a ton of money into a place that might get busted up on a regular basis. I thought about tileing the walls so I could just hose the place down every morning, but the noise level would be deafening. Vinyl & formica? I could cover the walls with vinyl, would they get sweaty? Does anyone have any experience with that(S&M chamber maybe)? I'll drop by F&S today and get some swatches.

If you drop buy & I'm out, there's a cooler on the back deck with some beer, just keep the cooler in the shade and don't take open cans off the property(the neighbors are already a little pissy about the construction noise).

Inga, sorry we missed Midsommer. I'll make sure we have little Swedish toothpick flags for next year.

Oh...I need a drink for Bastille Day. It could be an actual French drink, or a French themed drink(nothing insulting, we are aiming for world unity). For example, green beer isn't really Irish but Irish themed -kinda. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Gotta go look at juke boxes now.

Chinquapin

Under Construction
Welcome to The Nut House.

After scanning the Tripod/Lycos R&R page, I feel I must state that there will(hopefully)be massive roleplaying on this blog.

Dearest Tripod/Lycos,

Chinquapin will participate in none of the following at The Nut House:
1. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content, or select any member or user name or email address, that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
2. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that promotes illegal activity, including without limitation the provision of instructions for illegal activity.
3. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that exploits the images of children under 18 years of age, or that discloses personally identifying information belonging to children under 18 years of age.
4. Harm minors in any other way.
5. Make any sexual request on behalf of a minor or make any sexual request of a minor.
6. "Stalk" or otherwise harass another.
7. Collect or store personally identifying information about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes.
8. Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Lycos Network official, employee, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
9. Employ misleading email addresses or falsify information in the header, footer, return path, or any part of any communication, including emails, transmitted through the Products and Services.
10. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or regulation or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).
11. Upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that facilitates hacking.
12. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, service mark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party, or contributing to inducing or facilitating such infringement. This prohibition shall include, without limitation, the following forms of software piracy:
1. Making available copyrighted software or other Content that has had the copyright protection removed.
2. Making available serial numbers for software that can be used to illegally validate or register software.
3. Making available tools that can be used for no purpose other than for "cracking" software or other copyrighted Content.
4. Making available any software files for which the user does not own the copyright or have the legal right to make available.
13. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas that are designated for such purpose.
14. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material that contains software viruses, worms, trojan horses, time bombs, trap doors or any other computer code, files or programs or repetitive requests for information designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or to diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of the Products and Services or the Lycos Network.
15. Use automated means, including additional computers, software and scripts, to enhance play in Lycos Network games and promotions.
16. Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, or the like to download data from any Lycos Network database.
17. Conduct your own contests and promotions.
18. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content regarding any raffle, contest or game requiring a fee by participants.
19. Modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, link, display or in any way exploit any Content from any Lycos database, including, without limitation, by incorporating data from any Lycos database into any e-mail or "white pages" products or serviced, whether browser-based, based on proprietary client-site applications, web-based, or otherwise.
20. Sell, distribute, or make any commercial use of data obtained from any Lycos database or make any other use of data from any Lycos database in a manner which could be expected to offend the person for whom the data is relevant.
21. Create and maintain a Lycos Network web page (including, but not limited to, an Angelfire or Tripod home page) that (i) redirects to another web page or (ii) stores or hosts content for remote loading by other web pages. For example, you cannot create a Tripod home page, post pictures to the Tripod home page, and have other web pages call the Tripod home page page to retrieve those pictures.
22. Create and maintain a Lycos Network web page that contains hyperlinks to content not permitted on the Lycos Network.
23. Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in a chat room, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Products and Services are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges.
24. Interfere with or disrupt the Products and Services or servers or networks connected to the Products and Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Products and Services.
25. Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law.
26. Use the Products or Services to sell, purchase, or offer to sell or purchase any registered or unregistered securities.
27. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material that is false, misleading, or designed to manipulate any equity, security, or other market.
28. Disobey any Lycos employee or representative or interfere with any action by any Lycos employee or representative to redress any violation of these Terms and Conditions.

I see nothing about Happy Hour-thank God.

I'll be signing contracts, applying for licenses, interviewing help before the holiday weekend(U.S. Independence Day). With any luck, we'll have the grand opening for The Nut House on Bastille Day weekend(July 14-18).

One of the goals of The Nut House is to establish as many international drinking holidays as possible. We Americans(isn't nice we citizens of the USA are so inclusive of an entire hemisphere) have embraced Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick's Day, and that leads me to believe the 1st step to a true global village is to establish drinking holidays representing all the cultures of the world(play "We Are The World" or "It's A Small World" here).

Gotta go pick out some neon, Oh-Happy Canada Day!

Chinquapin