Wednesday, July 29 2009
It's a decoy . . . this must be a trap!
Faithful readers may wonder where I've been. The answer is, ON VACATION! Yep, I get to go off-leash a few weeks a year and I chose the last week of July and the first week of August for my time off. Things get very busy for me from about the middle of August, with retailer and distributor conferences and prepping for Limited Edition travel season, so if I don't get my holidays in right around this time I have to wait until January-ish to take any time off.
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Tuesday, July 21 2009
It comes up fairly often: "Just what do you do at work, Tim?", and not just from my bosses. My job is very difficult to explain or pin down. Yes, I do some drinking on the clock, but a lot of the time I sit and stare at a computer screen, or a pile of books,or reports, sometimes I talk to people on the phone or by email, and I have a lot of meetings, and all of it is about beverage alcohol in one form or another.
Trust me, I'm an actor!
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| Posted by Tim AT 6:51PM
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Thursday, July 16 2009
If you can't trust a guy in a dress and a pointy hat, who can you trust?
From the 'all things old become new again' file, Decanter reports Liquid Cocaine Found in Bottles of Bolivian Wine:
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| Posted by Tim AT 11:40PM
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Tuesday, July 14 2009
My, that does look stormy
July 14th marks the 220th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. The assault on the Bastille, a fortress and prison that held political prisoners (held under shadowy 'lettres de cachet', the equivalent of the Canadian 'security certificate') as well as a large stock of gunpowder and ammo, was the first step in the establishment of a constitutional monarchy that preceded the First Republic of France.
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Wednesday, July 8 2009
Norton, the Pinnacle of Wit?
It's been a slow drinking season lately, what with . . . gee, I dunno. I cannot for the life of me think why I'm not drinking as much as I should. Maybe I should ask my doctor if I need to get some help staying on my strict wine regimen.
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| Posted by Tim AT 6:10PM
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Tuesday, July 7 2009
"What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell,' avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history' - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
Born on this day in 1907, Robert A Heinlein had an enormous influence on my life and helped shape the person I am today. At the tender age of four-and-half I figured out how to read (I suspected that people reading me stories were holding out on the good stuff, and I was right--there was a world beyond 'Harold and the Purple Crayon') and within a couple of years I had a big-boy library card that let me take out books from the adult section as well as the kiddie stacks (God bless subversive librarians, sneakily letting kids read for themselves. Hug a librarian next time you see one.)
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Thursday, July 2 2009
Don't be fooled by all the pretty, fellows: she's a sharpie!
As a social gadfly and quasi-public nano-celebrity I have a very large circle of acquaintances, colleagues and co-conspirators. My actual circle of friends is much smaller, and I cherish the ones I have all the more for it--including great pals like Melissa (that's her above).
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Katy M
Posted 4 years ago
I'm loving English Rules Bocce. Excellent pics - you do live in paradise. I'll take yer extra zucchini!