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TAKE TIME TO SMELL THE ROSES (AND
TASTE THE WINES!) I know that
it’s been a while since I’ve submitted an article when I see Wino Bob enter
a guest log entry like “anyone knows where Wino Wally is?”
Well, Bob, I’ve “been to the mountain top” to paraphrase a famous
quote. More specifically, I just returned home from an exhausting at
times, but rewarding, eight month assignment in Albuquerque, New Mexico (where
Sandia Peak at 10,728 feet is accessible by car or tramway) with
a number of trips to New York City. Although
my columns don’t show it, I’ve submitted a number of restaurant reviews from
those cities and, surprisingly, Albuquerque has choices other than Mexican.
I also spent a fair amount of time with Schneido, Murpho and Wino Warren
who are world class gentlemen, scholars, and sometimes wannabe Winos (Schneido
and Murpho couldn’t take the Wino Bob name since we already have a Wino Bob,
so Schneido and Murpho seemed liked the next best choice.
This also should serve notice that those of you with fairly popular names
should get on board with writing articles for WinoStuff before your favorite
Wino name is taken.) Now that I’m
home and with a little more free time on my hands, I’m ready to tackle all of
the creative ideas flowing within and smell the roses (or is it rosé?).
Of course, any submitted by any of our avid readers are welcomed as well.
You can write them or just email an idea to me and I’ll try to follow
up. My golf links was one of those
emailed ideas and I’m going to work on expanding them soon as well (that’s
the stuff in winostuff; some of us golf once in a while). Meanwhile, what
you can look forward to over the next few weeks:
(1) daily diatribe and drivel that I find as I’m going through all my
wine periodicals since December and catching up with the latest, (2) a few more
restaurant reviews as soon as I can find my matchbooks with the notes regarding
dishes and wines consumed, (3) a review of eRobertParker.com (I know, I have
procrastinated big time on this one), (4) another “now that it’s Spring, we
need to look into some white wines since Bob and John are Big Red guys”
contest, (5) an article about all the research into the health benefits of red
wine (we’ll ignore the detriments since we can exercise some editorial
discretions…said another way, we get to choose which way we look at this issue
and it ain’t going to be evenhanded), (6) maybe an article about my upcoming
golf trip to Ireland where I’ll try to find restaurants that winos can enjoy
(but may only find a pub or two!), (7) a few tips about starting wine clubs, (8)
an update on wine cellar management, (9) comments on the Masters, British Open,
U.S. Open, PGA, and Ryder Cup golf tournaments this year (cut me a break, Wino
John, one of us has to do it), and (10) a discourse or two of my choosing.
You won’t get comments from me on movies, books (unless their wino
books), or political correctness (remember, I’m the financial guy in this
partnership and good numbers are always correct). Wino Wally P.S. Tax returns were the first priority before beginning my new writing odyssey and they’re done, out the door, and registered (electronically, of course). I recommend any electronic program like TurboTax where you can upload scads of info from employers and banks as well as last year’s return data and then submit the entire return electronically. Use TurboTax and Quicken and you can download tons of financial information for your return (but this isn’t as easy as it might seem, you’ll have to conduct your setup carefully). These programs also make sipping a glass of wine or two during return preparation much more enjoyable since swearing and sweating is reduced substantially. |