Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
So yes, I’m getting ready to leave Seattle tomorrow. It’s strange to have been in a hotel room so long I actually unpacked my stuff. The weather took a turn for the warmer, and now I’m down to a tank top to wear on the plane because I ended up going through all my warm …
Spotty posting due to lack of free hotel internets. Yes, it’s quite annoying. At least when I’m back in Seattle, I can count it as a business expense. I’d left off at Saturday morning, when we left Seattle for Portland. The drivers here in the Northwest bewilder me. Hubby says it’s because I have an …
Hubby and I are in Canada now, so I haven’t been able to Tweet since this morning, infernal addictive application. If you’re interested, you can follow me @RandomOenophile Our journeys began Friday, when the day condensed to make it difficult for us to get out of the house in a comfortably early fashion. At least …
Wow, I’ve been a slacker, at least in the blogosphere! The good news is that my practice has experienced a growth spurt. Or at least it did before Memorial Day. Now, between post-holiday malaise and some random maladies going around, I’m having a fairly quiet week. How have I spent my free time? Trying to …
Talk about timing! Hubby and I are working on our plans for our upcoming trip to the Pacific-Northwest, and Jess decided to taste Oregon and Washington wines as part of her Thursday Wine Series! I know we just took a trip to California, but I have a conference in Seattle the second week of June, …
I was excited to have the opportunity to attend a dinner last week at Violette, a French restaurant just west of I-85 on Clairmont. The funniest thing was, until I got the invitation, I hadn’t even noticed it was there, although I’d heard of it, and I drive by it almost every day on the …
I never thought I’d say this, but today, instead of reading my blog, I would rather you turn off the computer, put down the Blackberry or Sacred Useless-But-Entertaining Application Platform (otherwise known as the iPhone, the new techie drug of choice), perhaps even stop trying to get your Android phone to tell you which way …
I somehow ended up being double-booked last Thursday with an office happy hour at 5 Seasons Brewery at the Prado in Sandy Springs and the wine tasting at JavaMonkey. I was the only one at the office with a potential conflict when we decided on the date, and since getting my colleagues together after hours …
I always get a kick out of irony. Sometimes it even kicks me back. Last Sunday started way too early, as Hubby and I decided to hit the 8:00 Easter Mass so as to minimize exposure to fussy children who were hopped up on the Easter candy they’d been downing all morning. We returned home …
Tomorrow is Easter, and I’m so ready! Our Lenten sacrifice was to give up meat aside from one day per week, which was usually Sunday. If you count it out, the 40 days of Lent don’t count Sundays, which are “Feast Days,” so that’s why. It was fine for the first week and a half, …