Saturday, August 29th, 2009
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9:50 pm - Cheap wine of the decade
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I'm starting to think that the key to finding good wine at $10 is to avoid any variety that has its own section or aisle in the store. I've found a few Maryland bottles I trust, and a lot I don't (I'm already putting myself on the hook for another wine journal entry!?). This entry is for Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. What's working to make this varietal cheap?
- You have to remember a nine-syllable name. Not even Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has that many.
- It's an Italian table wine. Chianti has already sucked the oxygen out of that arena in the American headspace.
- It's a fairly soft, accessible wine. Most people who look for less-well-known wines are already bored with the major names, and want something that pushes one edge or another of the Why Wine is Interesting space. M d'A sits in the center: soft tannins, dry but with plenty of fruit and spice flavor.
- M d'A has much less pleasant association. Jerry Lewis telethon unpleasant.
Why do I say decade? Not because it's that good. Just because, when I find a series of good affordable table reds, I want to stick with it. M d'A will hopefully carry me through many years.
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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12:06 am
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
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8:00 pm - NaNoWriMo
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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9:22 pm
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I own a wii. My wife is upstairs watching TV, I'm downstairs watching History Channel. I love my life some days.
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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8:15 pm
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I'm on the laptop and watching Good Eats. My fiancee is on the DS Lite* and listening to her iPod. I love my life some days.
* Still on the lookout for a Wii.
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
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11:01 pm
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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7:52 am
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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5:43 pm
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Today is a big day. Laura got her first piece of mail at this address. It's spam from a company that got her information from The Knot (purposefully not linked), but still, she's practically a resident.
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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7:08 pm
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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6:13 pm - lolproposal
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
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7:40 pm
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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7:45 pm
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
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1:59 pm
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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6:41 am
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Journalling always tastes better when I'm within smelling distance from the ocean. Laptop perched on a railing over a surreally foggy Ocean City, waiting for breakfast and a full day of handbell ringing. I'll be enjoying it for another 8 hours, though not with the salty air. I think that might be bad for the brass. Pity, this is certainly my favorite weather ever.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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8:27 am
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I'd make this a poll, but I've still only sent livejournal money once, and it wasn't on my behalf. Besides, essay form is better. Today's subject is the non-word "Trapaise." It's been a persistent part of my vocabulary for decades. But apparently, the entire time, it was supposed to be 'traipse'. Google has 48 citations, most in the 'traipse' use. Does anyone else know of this usage, or used it themselves?
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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10:54 pm
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.jpg) Big Break is coming to Kaanapali! Just down the road from Kapalua, which I talked about at the start of the year. It's one of the very few reality competitions that actually features an activity I've done, so it's great fun to see how they challenge everyone. The glass-pane-breaking and wall challenges are infamous for a reason, they're just close enough to real-world situations to be useful, but just strange enough to be interesting. Also, the competition brutally merit based. No vote, no politics. Get the ball close to/in the hole the best, and you can always survive. I really liked the Cut system that some recent shows have had: the points from reward challenges were totaled from show to show, and the low 3-4 people at the end of each show go to the elimination. Interesting way to bring in the fact that golf is a game of consistency, even while the show celebrates the uncertainty of each shot.
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
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5:07 am
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And home. Note to LAX: If you lead me to believe that I will be arriving at gate 66 and departing at gate 68a, please to not be putting us at gate 81 instead.
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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5:03 pm - Trip Home Liveblog
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4:45, Arrive at airport. See that departing flight isn't delayed, but arriving flight serving as departing flight is posted delayed 25 minutes. United website gives delay at 17 minutes. This reduces our layover from 35 minutes to 10-18 minutes. Weee.
5:01, announcement that the arriving plane will land in 10 minutes.
5:14, plane spotted on tarmac
5:18, passengers deplane. Fuel truck comes out.
I'll post more updates if and when I get access. Probably not from SF, unless we don't make our flight.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
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9:51 pm - JIG victory
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Jayisgames poker night has been running for free on Saturday evenings for about a month. This tourney had about 35 players. And I happened to have won.
Immediate benefit: 1 month of 'power player' play at Triplejack Poker. This gives me more personalization, and more prize-winning opportunities, if I have the time to use them.
Future benefit: A seat at the championship tourney on May 17th. Should be several prizes up for grabs, including a Nano and a DS. This is really quite cool. First time I've won something at poker with something actually on the line. Maybe one of the first times I've won a prize with some monetary value for winning a game. I'm really quite averse to gambling myself, since games are supposed to be relaxing and inconsequential. But hey, winning works too!
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
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8:59 pm
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My mom: "Who's Lou B_____, and why would he add me as a Facebook friend?"
I love my geek parents.
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