What started out as a small gathering for Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago ended up turning into quite the event. As usual, my inlaws were hosting and since we were only planning on about five or six people, it didn't seem like such a big deal. I think the plan was just to have a traditional meal, but then @mrsbozz's sister texted the group and said they would be willing to come up from Ohio for Thanksgiving if uncle bozz (not my real name) was going to smoke a turkey breast.

I've actually been sitting on this content for a little bit now. There are a number of reasons, but none of them are really that important. That doesn't mean I still won't share them with you. As many of you know, the day after Thanksgiving is often referred to as "Black Friday". What you may not know is that the third Saturday in April is a day known as Record Store Day. It's a worldwide event that brings special edition and early edition vinyl records to collectors.

Sadly, I had grown all too familiar with the screen above. I would actually rage hit the refresh button hoping for a different outcome, but it always remained the same. It's actually been going on for quite some time now and just when things would get better, they would get worse again.

It's safe to say I had a couple of surprises I woke up yesterday morning. Through the night we got about three to four inches of snow. Sure, it was nothing like the northern part of my state got over last weekend. Something like 43 inches across two or three days. Then I looked at my news feed and discovered that Bitcoin had jumped up above $100,000 USD finally. Sure, it dropped back down to something like $90,000 by the end of the day and now we are sitting at $98,000 or so.

When I went to bed around 9:00 PM EST last night, I really didn't expect to wake up this morning and see that BTC had jumped over $100,000. Let alone a quick run up to $103K or whatever the new ATH is. I'm sure you have a feed flooded with posts about that milestone this morning. I'm also sure that we probably haven't seen the last of sub $100K prices for BTC. With that in mind, I'd rather talk about whiskey today.

Believe it or not, for once this post isn't about crypto. I know it's probably easy to go there when you hear the words "currency of the future", but nope, that's not what this is about. It's actually probably a bit of a misnomer to describe what I am talking about as the currency of the future. In fact, it has probably been a currency long before currency was ever a thing. It's been traded, discovered, sought after, and hoarded for millenia.