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Had a fabulous day in Seattle yesterday: toured Chateau Ste. Michelle (took lots of photos), test drove a Bugaboo, bought a shirt to replace the one I’d forgotten to pack (thus enabling being dressed right for dinner), ran down to the Admiral Viewpoint and shot a bunch of photos of the skyline, and then […]

After a long, long Friday night of staying up burning CDs for the rental car, and a long, long Saturday of airplanes, airports and power naps, we arrived in safely in Seattle and found our way to wolffire and gr0m1t’s (very lovely) house without incident. After a bit of catching up we walked to […]

…1982 Chateauneuf du Pape.
(My wife is soooo awesome…)

Mood:happy

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In accordance with the principle that the Internet is mostly filled with photos of people’s cats doing cute things, here’s Valentine, perched daintily on the laser printer in our office.
Pop on over to Flickr for more photos of the cats being their adorable little […]

I’ve found my Livejournal “friends page” to be increasingly cumbersome as a feed aggregation and reading service. Liz has fallen in love with Pulp Fiction and uses it religiously. PF is great for reading JL friends–since it can remember cookies, one can see all of one’s friends’ friends-only posts. But Liz tends […]

I have 44 people signed up for my wine presentation on Sunday for Saturday College (yes, I know Sunday for Saturday College is a bit weird, but that’s the only day that works). I can not believe how many I have signed up!

Mood: shocked

Life has been good lately. Getting things done around the house, personal goals meet and studying is going well. But at the same time, life is very funny.
All I can say is if you are a female and in the wine businesses, it is time to stop drinking the water. […]

Just got the news from my dad that my grandmother Pirnat passed away. I am not too surprised, as she’d been taken to the ICU yesterday with bad GI bleeding, but it still hurts. I’m feeling strangely disconnected from it all; I expect the grief will catch up to me once I’ve […]

Goals for now to mid-June:1. Take and pass the CSW exam. (Got the score and I passed, so I’m now a Certifiable wine geek, or Certified Wine Specialist)2. Finish remaining 2 papers. (2 done)3. Work out 3 days a week. 4. Study for and pass Unit 3 Exam. (69 days away!)5. Finish Competent Communicator with […]

In a very special episode of ClePy, we were joined by guest star Drew Robbins, a “Developer Evangelist” from Microsoft. Drew gave us an overview of IronPython, did a number of live demos, and fielded a wide array of “interactivity” from the group. He also gave away a Zune using Python’s random.randint() […]