Monday

July 31, 2000

"The thirsty earth saoks up the rain
And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
The plants suck in the earth and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair."

Abraham Cowley, Drinking

The label....

the cork, I think.

Work Day

Work is getting more and more difficult. I enjoy it. I do. It just interferes with things I enjoy more. That's it. Doesn't help that colleagues are retiring. That we have the usual struggles of a mature business at work. But I get a new charge occasionally out of it. A new idea. A glimmer of hope of implementing it and making a difference. Keeps me going. Mondays are hard, though.

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Lunched with my parents. It's just as I imagined when I found the house. I'm able to pop over and have lunch and visit with them.

Gave Dad a ride to the in-laws after work to get his Buick. That's the last thing of theirs that isn't at their house. Excepting a few things they have here that I keep discovering.

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To change up my habits, I worked out at our club after work. Did the machines before the bicycle, too. Then just watched the convention and read all the papers of the day and finished Sunday's. And did the Monday crossword. Then I went to bed at a reasonable hour with a book and put off computing until the morrow.

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I'm still playing with pictures I took of the Big Night. I noticed while blowing up the dead soldiers pictures that the Cheval Blanc cork had 1966 on it...the year it was bottled. I love my high res digital camera! Unless, of course, that's really the Yquem cork that got matched up with the Cheval Blanc lead in my picture. Aren't wine snobs a bunch of bores? It's all about savoring a moment, after years of waiting, when the wine hits the air and has a life of a few glorious hours.

I got some prints made yesterday, too, and discovered pictures going back to March on that roll of film. That's an interesting phenomena that is missing with digital...unless, of course, you don't download them.

I really hate the polemics of politics, don't you? We got both sides this night. Because they let Ann Richards comment and she made a strident speech and then you have all those Republicans cheering ever sentence that Laura and Colin said. (Well, OK, they weren't all that warm to some of Colin's statements.) I like Laura. I really do. I like Ann in a lot of ways. But politics. Yech.