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Yesterday I had a trade tasting, I tasted 42 wines.
Today, I had two trade tastings and I dragged Mike to them. The first one we tasted 33 wines, the second we tried 65 wines. Mike is now really pissed off that we missed 100 wines by 2.
I might have another one tomorrow.
Yes, I […]

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Thursday continues with a stop in Zell (home of the famous Zeller Schwartze Katz), a scenic drive along the windy Mosel, and our arrival in romantic Beilstein, a place out of time, instantly charming. We check into historic Hotel-Haus Lippmann, home of the […]

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This is another half-day post as about a quarter of the photos we shot for the week were taken on this fifth day (Thursday) in Germany.
Our day begins in Worms, with a visit to the Martin Luther monument (the largest in Germany), a return […]

Almost a month ago I went on a tour of German wine regions. When I decided to do a wine tour of Germany I had some vague expectations, a lot of Riesling of good quality of various levels of sweetness with a few additional varietals tossed in. With a full week of appointments […]

Bloody hell, it’s been almost twelve days since I’ve posted any new photos from the Germany trip. Harrumph. I guess that’s what happens when I let myself get distracted by other things: houseguests, complete disassembly of the office/computer space to prep for painting, work, catching up with Tivo (I can’t believe I’ve […]

Lately in our house we’ve had a number of chats regarding the label of a “wine snob”. This label was placed on me a few weeks ago which did not make me happy, and I was soon told I was overreacting.
From Merriam-Webster:snob : one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association […]

Just a very quick update to make sure all the moving pieces are still functioning correctly… I’ve spent the afternoon moving pirnat.com’s web and email service from Gemstream to Webfaction.
Reasons for my switch include (in no particular order):

Email access over SSH
HTTPS for their webmail client
SpamAssassin is just a checkbox away!
Can publish website changes using […]

Since I can’t concentrate on my writings, I thought I’d check out some wine podcasts.
Cellar Rat from alt.npr does Ratcast is a lot of fun, informative and addresses unique topics. about 30 mins.
Grape Radio from GrapeRadio.com is again a lot of fun, is very educational, they have a great podcast on the MW program. about […]

My recent vacation photos hiatus is in part due to spending last weekend being all responsible and grown-up and stuff–Laura, one of my nieces, came to visit us for the weekend. Note the use of the word “my,” a big step for me, as for most of the past seven years, the girls have […]

Taking a bit of a break from Germany photos and work to close some Firefox tabs and share some linky joy:

Forthcoming surge protectors designed for cable management — finally!
Interfacelift has some really cool backgrounds, especially for folks with big or wide screens.
Frustrated with the rigid online interface for making a flickr badge? Make your […]