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We have hot water!! One never realizes how important that is till it’s gone.
I made it through two very cold showers too!
Had a wine tasting all day today, made it through 74 wines. Or at least that’s how many I think it was. And I spit them all! Yes, I [...]

Back safely from Germany without incident; even our luggage made it with no hassles. I was shooting 100-300 photos a day, so expect steaming heaps of flickr before too long.
Of course, that will have to wait until I feel clean again. Our hot water heater apparently got very lonely while we were away [...]

Hotels stayed at: 6Hotels with air conditioning: 1, stayed there first and last night, but it didn’t work very well when it was REALLY hot.Average temp first 5 days: 34 C
Wineries visited: 9 Meetings with wine makers at winery: 4Wines tasted: 84 (not including things outside of winery meetings, like dinner or lunch)Rieslings tasted: 71Oldest [...]

The horrible bookends.Trip was great. Amazing, wonderful, will write more later.Getting there, hell.Getting home, not bad, but once home found hot water heater dead.What a girl would do for a shower.*sigh*

Mood: tired

I can say quite assuredly that few things in my life feel quite as good as activating “Out of Office” mode in Outlook.
*deeply satisfied sigh*

Mood:happy

I got my ass kicked by someone and finally put up a website.
It’s found here: Drinkable Grape
More info will come in August, but just needed to toss something up ASAP

Mood: accomplished

In some sudden fit of temporary insanity, Liz gave her blessing–nay, encouragement!–to the purchase of an all-Mike camera, partly for tooling around Deutschland during the times where I don’t get to be part of her elite viticultural circle, and mostly for trying to redevelop a long-dormant hobby.
I spent most of today going through the manual [...]

Just catching up on the Tivo. Just started watching Project Runway from Bravo “Road to the Runway Season 3″ and Steve Rosengard is on it!
I went to high school with him. He’s the one who designed my senior prom dress!!!! SHOCK!!
Steve didn’t make it to the show, but did make it to [...]

At Monday’s Clepy meeting, I presented “The Joy of Optparse”, all about why optparse is your friend (assuming of course that you want friends that manage command line input for you). We had a brief bit of round-table discussion after that, then adjourned to the local TGIF for munchies and beer. Even though [...]

It’s 86 mins into the Portugal v. France game. After this game, I have 2 more, than, I get my life back for 4 more years. Good news on the finals, they are Sat & Sun, so no more interputions in work or school.
I’ve spent most of this game doing research alcohol drinking [...]