Author Archives: Alan V

Wine Tasting in Sonoma

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Today Sharon drove Richard, Victor, and myself up to Sonoma to do wine tasting and awesomeness.

Brunch at the girl & the fig featured humongous french toast stuffed with lemon cream and covered in blueberry sauce.

We visited four wineries (or at least their tasting centers): Sebastini, Chateau St. Jean, Kenwood, and St. Francis.
Kenwood has a 2009 Yulpa White Zinfandel that I really, really like.
St. Francis had an awesome tasting menu with food accompaniments. I could eat entire loaves of their sweet baguette. Nom. The pork and cheese were also really good.

Tweeted photos exist.
Tasty tasty food.

So overall it’s been quite the awesome (and busy) weekend.

Tons of thanks to Sharon for driving today and hosting yesterday, and to Charles and Matt for hosting yesterday.
(Alternately, tons of thanks to Sharon for driving today, and to Sharon and Charles and Matt for hosting yesterday.)

Because it is midnight and I didn’t get as much sleep last night as I wanted, photos (from yesterday and today) will have to wait until tomorrow to be posted. Check photos2 tomorrow evening (or subscribe to the RSS feed or follow the LJ account).

10 days to the move. Scary. Exciting.

Party

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People came over today for a pre-party with hot tubbing and games and food. Afterward, we all went to the farewell party Sharon was throwing for me.

Lots of cake (Mission Minis, a huge red velvet cake, a vanilla cake I baked), tasty booze (St. Germain!), rock band, pop song karaoke, and philosophical discussions about life and computing and the universe and razors.

I’m so incredibly lucky to have so many awesome friends. :) Thanks to everyone who came.
(Particular thanks to Sharon, Charles, and Matt for hosting.)

Photos will be posted at some point to photos2 when it’s not 3 AM. (If you follow the RSS feed or LJ syndicated account, you’ll get updated automatically.)

RSS Feeds

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So, as I posted in my last entry, photos2 now has an RSS feed.
jgrafton created a syndicated account for it, which you can find as alanv_photos.

I spent some time today fixing up the feed. It now properly displays build dates and published dates for galleries.

Zeke today suggested Yahoo pipes as a way to combine various feeds. As a result, there is now a combination feed for my journal and photos that will display the last 6 entries (from either).
http://pipes.yahoo.com/alanvdotorg/combined
The pipe has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to for easy access.

Yay RSS!

Fourth of July

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I had a Fourth of July. We ended up not watching fireworks (except for virtual ones on the projector that we quickly grew tired of), but it was an awesome time anyway.

In totally unrelated news, photos2 now has an RSS feed, in case you want to follow updates without having to go through the trouble of checking my main website (which already syndicates everything).

My Fourth of July in pictures:



















Life and Lobos

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It occurs to me that I never posted photos from Point Lobos. They are now up on photos 2.

Shawn and I went portraiting on Tuesday. Photos are at portraits. Not so great, but the Embarcadero at sunset was really pretty and they’re more candid than usual, so I suppose they’re just different.

Also, life has been updated to bring it up to date.

Yay lots of photography.

T-minus 22 days to leaving California. Exciting. Terrifying. Awesome.

Here’s a Jeremy drinking wine, as usual.