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After a day of tasting French wines, what do I have for dinner? Pad Thai with Mango Smoothie.

Mood: silly

Is it bad when I see on the weather they listed Friday as “Nice Finish” and it took me a few moments to realize they were NOT talking about wine?

Mood: amused

It turns out I’m not going insane! those damn Toyota ads really are using “What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor”. Unfortunately, while this confirms my sanity, I fear that it also means the rest of the world has gone completely, utterly mad.

Mood:relieved

- Tasted 16 wines, did ok. – Not happy with the way they changed the tasting porition. They give you a sheet and you check the boxes. So let’s say you think a wine is Med-High Body, well, if master key says it’s High, no points for you. WTF?!?!?- Hotel is [...]

The lovely folks at LEGO have brightened my day with what is a strong contender for Best Thing Ever: using their software, you can design and order custom LEGO models! The icing on the cake? There’s a Mac version as well as Windows. (Sorry, no Linux version, but two out of [...]

So on top of being stressed out about the huge project I’ve been working on that might or might not launch this week, which kept me in the office until 9:30 PM on Friday night, and Liz being gone for the week for her class, and being ignored by the cats, this week has decided [...]

Tonight for dinner, I had a wine from a new country! From Slovenia!
It was a Rumeni Muskat Kogl 1542, Slovenia 2000.
It was very honey, with minerals hidden in the back with a light to medium body, lightly fizzy.
Importated by USA Imports.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND trying this. It was so good!

Mood: bouncy

Just got back from dropping off Liz at the airport. For the next week, it’ll be just me and the cats while she’s immersed in her class and exam preparations in New York. It’s really, tremendously exciting that the time she’s been preparing for for so long is finally here, and I know [...]

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…of being brain-smashingly cute.

Mood:amused
Music:Radiohead – “Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)”

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