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The week from something
Jun. 1st, 2007 10:42 pmI'm sure my sister will tag this as catering to my OCD tendencies, but I have just downloaded wine tracking software and logged all my wine, and sorted by maturity. Firstly, I love having my own laptop. What started out as a random thought, hey I wonder if there is software out there for this, ended up in a number of hours work, and me feeling like I might have control over the wine for the first time in ages.
For any of you worried about just how much wine is involved, I'm currently talking about 60 bottles, which given I like to age my reds for at least a year before drinking and preferably 2 years, is not really that bad. Although I make no promises that it will stay at that level. There is, after all, a trip to france planned soon. (although I have my suspicions that the trip to Tuscany will be far more fatal)
(my sis has nothing to comment about, while I may have bought her readerware, I didn't make her go through all her old receipts for the last 3 years and add in the values of each book in her library, geek!)
I think it would be best if I don't comment on the work situation. I try very hard not to make the place of employment (putting gainful in that sentence would just be sarcastic) identifiable, for very good reasons. Given the press of the last week, anything I say will be obvious. Except Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The news that a NZ power company switched off the power to a household with a woman on oxygen, who subsequently died, is all over the UK press. While I think this is appalling behaviour from the power company, I also think there are probably a number of other issues going on, namely that if she was that dependent on oxygen, she should have been in hospital, so there was clearly a failure in after care support. I think this family, who have clearly struggled to support themselves without resorting to public funds have been let down in a number of ways, and in a country as small as NZ, thats inexcusable. I was amused that when the PM came to give her condolences to the family, she snubbed the execs from the power company waiting outside. When the PM is pissed off enough to snub you, then you should be expecting serious government investigation as revenge.
And finally, the issue that has consumed LJ for the last few days. What a mess! Talk about good intentions being on the road to hell (I'm sure I've mangled that quote) Although it certainly seems to have spurred fandom into action, which is wonderful. Given that lurking is no longer an option, I've made a new pledge to comment on stories I read and like enough to bookmark. As those people who have tried to get me to beta know, my comments tend to be of the vaguely unhelpful variety, but I'm sure with practice I'll get better. My job for this weekend is to track down some of the stories I've read and loved and add a comment.
For any of you worried about just how much wine is involved, I'm currently talking about 60 bottles, which given I like to age my reds for at least a year before drinking and preferably 2 years, is not really that bad. Although I make no promises that it will stay at that level. There is, after all, a trip to france planned soon. (although I have my suspicions that the trip to Tuscany will be far more fatal)
(my sis has nothing to comment about, while I may have bought her readerware, I didn't make her go through all her old receipts for the last 3 years and add in the values of each book in her library, geek!)
I think it would be best if I don't comment on the work situation. I try very hard not to make the place of employment (putting gainful in that sentence would just be sarcastic) identifiable, for very good reasons. Given the press of the last week, anything I say will be obvious. Except Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The news that a NZ power company switched off the power to a household with a woman on oxygen, who subsequently died, is all over the UK press. While I think this is appalling behaviour from the power company, I also think there are probably a number of other issues going on, namely that if she was that dependent on oxygen, she should have been in hospital, so there was clearly a failure in after care support. I think this family, who have clearly struggled to support themselves without resorting to public funds have been let down in a number of ways, and in a country as small as NZ, thats inexcusable. I was amused that when the PM came to give her condolences to the family, she snubbed the execs from the power company waiting outside. When the PM is pissed off enough to snub you, then you should be expecting serious government investigation as revenge.
And finally, the issue that has consumed LJ for the last few days. What a mess! Talk about good intentions being on the road to hell (I'm sure I've mangled that quote) Although it certainly seems to have spurred fandom into action, which is wonderful. Given that lurking is no longer an option, I've made a new pledge to comment on stories I read and like enough to bookmark. As those people who have tried to get me to beta know, my comments tend to be of the vaguely unhelpful variety, but I'm sure with practice I'll get better. My job for this weekend is to track down some of the stories I've read and loved and add a comment.