Personal and Professional Musings
Wednesday was not an awesome day. Thursday was marginally better and today….well, today is still up for grabs. The reason Wednesday wasn’t awesome, downright atrocious, in fact, was because I tweaked my back something fierce and I haven’t ever experienced such acute pain in my life. It started out at the warehouse where I was…
Marc Kreydenweiss Les Charmes Kritt Pinot Blanc (2006); Alsace: Let’s start with the fun facts. The “Kritt” part of the name is from the word Kritter, which is how the vineyard site was labeled on old maps of the area. “Les Charmes” is fancy French-speak for “the charms” and the label art represents the delicacy…
I read once that Mets’ third baseman David Wright (perhaps you’ve heard me talk about him?) keeps a notebook in which he writes down all his at bats and the pitchers he faces. He documents his at bats and the sequence of pitches he is thrown and what he did with them and it undoubtedly…
I asked Ida to downgrade (see below) and hot damn! She’s a tropical storm, working on depression. For my CA readers: It’s just a little rainy and windy but I’ll survive. Looks like I owe her a fruit basket. Megan, maybe we can get a group discount. I’m going to crawl under some blankets now.
I wanted to take a moment to write an open letter to Tropical Storm Ida, which, according to all reports, is gaining on hurricane status as it makes its way to the Gulf. Dear Ida, I don’t know if you know this or not, but I’m new to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.…
That’s all this week.
I love football season. I mean, I love baseball season but the two are different. There is something about the smell of football (shoulder pads, mixed with sweat, mixed with grass) that I love. I especially love it under the lights. I love baseball just as much, but in a different way. (I’m not sure…
…but I’m impressed. As a member of a family of quarterbacks, and, in honor of Friday night football, I give you this nugget I saw online tonight:
