For the time being have been permanently disabled until I can find a more effective way of blocking spam.
I’ve posted great wine finds before, but not often enough and I keep forgetting the really great ones that I drink.
So, I’m stealing an idea from the lass. I’ll start blogging my wine choices.
Tonights selection: Rodney Strong ‘01 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
I’m a big fan of a good pinot noir as my keeper shelf will tell you. This one did not disappoint! Very light without being too fruity or dry. Not too strong either. Meal selection was poor however. This wine would have gone great with a nice grilled chicken breast or steamed salmon. Not so much with Tri-tip. Finish was perfect without being bitter. Picked it up at Trader Joes a few weeks ago for about $15, which makes it that much better!
Definitely worth getting if you fancy a nice pinot. Looking at how much is left in the bottle (about a glass worth that I will probably finish before bed), I’d give it an 7.5 out of 10. Not as good as the ‘01 Acacia Carneros Pinot, or the Echelon (both run about $25-$30 a bottle), but really really close.
I posted the following over here already
Ok gang, completely not MINI related here, I just wanted to let you know. I’m pretty sure that the only way you have of actually spamming my comments is to visit the site and manually enter you junk into the comment form. I’m sure you are just clicking submit and moving off to the next site. I’m also pretty sure that after you visit you aren’t able to come back unless you find another open proxy to use. Pretty sneaky, but your spam still doesn’t show up. All I’m saying is just save yourself the hassle and time with this one. Oh yea, you can pretty much skip any website that is powered by WordPress. Go and bug the blogger kids for change eh?
What I really meant to say is you are all a bunch of lazy, pancake eatin’ mother f’ers! You are f’ing up my logs, hogging my bandwidth and in general just pissing me off! KNOCK IT OFF!
Now, if you would like to continue to post your links to any of my sites, I’m sure we could work out a rate schedule that would benefit all parties.
Not wanting to waste to much time getting home tonight, I’ll pulled out all of the stops and used all of my super secret shortcuts. Cut 1 full hour off my, of late, commute time. 55 miles in 2 hours baybee. I RAwK!
Google is starting to index iTunes links. Don’t believe me? do a search for “drop it like it’s hot” with the quote in that little box in the top right corner of your browser window and check out that first link. (thanks jSchwa).
So, the last time we met was about 8 days ago. That was roughly 2 days after the last big storm. Some things to note…
~Since last Monday I have spent over 40 hours commuting from southwest Riverside County to Central OC
~More swift water rescues have happened. Why are we saving these people? I say leave ‘em to the Darwin Awards people.
~Someone really hit the lets-piss-off-db switch at the office. I’m honestly starting to think they are doing it on purpose and to that end resumes are going out like spam.
~State of California put a man to death. His only request was a glass of pineapple juice. For sure I would have gone for a Double Double and a King Fat Combo, but that’s just me.
So, to the lame ass commute of mine. I live in Lake Elsinore. For those of you not familiar with the town it is the piece of shit car capitol of SoCal and I believe we have more meth labs per capita than any other city within’ a 200 mile radius. Quite impressive to be sure, matched only by it’s geographic location. As the brochures say “Nestled in the shadows of the Cleveland National Forest…” which is to say the town is located approx. 1 hour north of downtown San Diego and about the same distance from Pasadena (on good traffic days, both counts). While it’s really not as bad as I make it out to be, there is 1 small problem. To get out of this valley to go either west or north there are only 2 routes. The first is to take I15 north to SR91w (yes, that 91). That’s ok, except that route is used by well over 500,000 other drivers, and almost all of them at the same time.
The other way out is via SR74, aka Ortega Hwy. While not the fastest way from point a to b, traffic moves and there isn’t as much of it. This road supports, if I had to guess, more than 10K cars a day. There are ways south (I15) and east (I215 and SR74), but to use either of these routes to get to the OC would take the better part of the day, so they aren’t really practical.
Anway, the last big band of storms that rolled through here did a little bit of damage to Ortega Hwy. To the tune of 2 weeks worth of repairs, if I’m lucky.
I honestly don’t know how much longer I can do the 3-hour-each-way commute. It’s killin’ me.
Checked out iTunes today? If yea, go to the essentials section. MAJOR improvements that are actually pretty cool.
Poking around a bit, I was able to recreate a playlist from one of my 6th grade dances. No, I didn’t download the tracks (yet), but for you youngsters (ok, younger than me) out there, I thought a little music history is in order…
- Copacabana - Barry Manillow…I know what you’re thinkin’, but back in the day this was a swingin’ track!
- Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey…how in the world do you think they made so much money? They were *the* rock band back then.
- Every Woman in the World - Air Supply…many a pre-teen butt got touched for the first time to this song I’m sure.
- Centerfold - J. Geils Band…Do I really have to say more?
- Eye of the Tiger - Survivor…Actually, I still hate this song and hate that Starbucks used it, kinda, in a commercial.
- Queen’s Another One bites the dust, Crazy little thing called love and We will rock you/We are the champions…That last one was actually best at the roller rink! ALL SKATE, CHANGE DIRECTIONS!
- Physical - Olivia Newton John…Yes, your favorite grease star actually was a singer! I preferred Xandu myself, but what do I know.
For those of you wondering, I did do a survey of the yard last night and other than some newly sprouted weeds, everything is good to go. I did not do that project yesterday, but that’s mostly due to the wiring guy flaking out and it’s no longer raining!
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