Ramblings

Dammit! Thanks Site Meter for hosing up my statistics. I now have the pleasure of passing 150,000 hits not once, but twice. And today's statistics summary is a hoot.

Last Hour 24
Today 303
This Week 81

So I've had 303 hits today, but I've only had 81 hits this week. Yeah. That makes sense. I guess I shouldn't bitch since it's free.

Saturday night, Michael, Cindy and I went out to eat at a wine bar in Dunwoody called D'vine. We were checking it out to see if we could hold a Sommelier Guild tasting there. Nope! Too small. Anyway, we started out at their house and had some salmon and champagne. I gave the night some excitement by falling as I entered their house. My walking is really going to shit lately.

After our dinner we came back to GOC Central and finished off the Dean Delamain cognac. This was the bottle that I won from Michael on our bet about Dean getting the Dimocrat nomination.

I'm gonna start eating out more since I'm gonna have to help find places to hold Guild tastings at. Oh no! I ended a sentence with a preposition. That brings to mind an old joke.

A new college student trying to find the student union stopped an English professor and asked, "Where is the student union at?"

The professor replied, "Young man, one never ends a sentence with a preposition."

The student then asked, "OK. Where is the student union at you pompous asshole?"

Rim shot!

Anyway back to restaurants. A while back, we had a blog meetup of some Atlanta bloggers. One of the reasons for the meetup was to kick around the idea of putting together a group blog with the tentative name of Peach Tea. This was the brainchild of the Lady Jessica and Greg Greene.

Group blogs are hard to do especially with bloggers who have jobs and their own blogs. There just isn't enough time to do justice to two blogs. I know, I have been in group blogs before. So the group blog is in limbo. The blog was to be about Atlanta and not necessarily Atlanta politics. For example, I was thinking about doing an occasional restaurant review about restaurants where the Guild had had tastings or restaurants that I went to for potential future tastings.

That reminds me. I'm thinking of putting up a blog roll of people on the left that I like personally. I don't agree with their politics, but I would enjoy sitting down and having a drink with them. Greg is one and I really enjoyed sitting next to him at the blogger meetup and Marieke is another. My only misgiving is that some of my readers would go flame them. These are nice people. They just have a different world view and see things differently. They are not the enemy.

Now don't think I'm mellowing out here. I still have a devout hatred for Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy and John Fonda Kerry. These are definitely not nice people. These are people who have tried and are still trying to destroy the Constitution and our freedoms.

I'd like to bitch slap that asshole John McCain also. Him and his bullshit campaign finance reform. That law is unconstitutional and the Supreme Court should have declared it so. There should be no limits on donating money. The only thing we need is full disclosure of who is donating and how much. And John, if you are gonna defend Kerry, why don't you just switch parties, you asshole?

OK. I really didn't have anything to write about tonight and the above was just a bunch of brain farts. Better stuff tomorrow. I promise.

Posted by denny at March 21, 2004 10:28 PM