I took Monday off work to recover from the weekend.
Saturday, I went down to Greens to stock up on table wine. I drink two types of wine: Cheap, but good stuff for drinking alone, and more expensive stuff for when I have company. How do I know what cheap stuff to buy? My friend Michael is the wine buyer for Greens and I just ask him what he is drinking. Then I buy a couple of cases of that which is what I did. He also had a closeout deal on a good Barbaresco so I bought four bottles to put in my cellar. It won't be ready to drink for at least four years. I also bought a case of white wine and some rum for the next time my brother-in-law comes to town. I'm pretty well stocked up on wine for the next three to four months.
Since Michael's wife Cindy was out of town, I invited him over for dinner at GOC Central. It was my usual dull mundane Saturday night dinner. We had smoked salmon with a bottle of Sancerre. Then we had a salad. For the main course it was filet mignon, baked potato, and corn on the cob. Michael brought a bottle of Pinot Noir to drink with that. We then finished off with a couple of glasses of grappa.
Sunday was the annual Sommelier Guild Banquet. I posted the menu earlier. The food was very good and the wines worked out well. We had two wines with each course. One was from California and the other was from France. This was a good side by side comparison of French to California using the same grape.
I slept in on Monday. I got up and checked my site hits and I noticed I had one of the best weekends ever. That's the trick then. Post boobage on the weekends. I also had to play some whack a troll. Trolls, besides being assholes, are usually pretty stupid. This guy was also French so he had three strikes against him.
Speaking of whack a troll, I notice the Israelis are playing a pretty good game of whack the head Hamas dude. Hamas has appointed a new leader but for some reason they do not want to tell anyone who it is.
Come out, come out whoever you are.
Monday afternoon I planted some more veggies in my garden. I got the tomatoes in last week and this week I planted some beans and cucumbers. I can start looking forward to some fresh veggies in late June.
After a nice weekend and a Monday off, I feel pretty mellow. I'm really in too good of a mood to rant about anything. I've even started posting a cute animal series.
I'm sure that something will piss me off real soon and I can get back to my grouchy old self.
You can count on it.
Posted by denny at April 19, 2004 08:47 PM