{"id":2510,"date":"2012-10-07T23:31:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2012-10-09T23:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:01:46","slug":"wine-tartan-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"Wine, Tartan, Cel&iuml;diluh, and fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/life.alanv.org\">life<\/a> has gotten an update bringing it up to the beginning of this month. I had quite an eventful last month, it seems. But it&#8217;s also been an eventful last week.<br \/>\n(Also, because I was sick of referring to the sections as &#8220;stats&#8221; and &#8220;life proper&#8221;, they are now called &#8220;photo stats&#8221; and &#8220;photo journal&#8221;, which hopefully will be easier to refer to. So yeah&#8230; the photo journal has been updated.)<\/p>\n<p>Besides the usual Thursday board games, we went to Yubin&#8217;s this week for a wine tasting (with 5 different cheeses and 4 different kinds of crackers), and it was pretty awesome. Yubin really knows her wines.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/100712wine1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/100712wine2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/100712wine3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/100712wine4.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/100712wine5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend was also C&egrave;ilidh Weekend (AKA Homecoming) and so there was the usual chili cookoff. I wasn&#8217;t able to enjoy it as fully this year (had to work starting at noon, so I just grabbed a bowl of chili and a burger and went upstairs to work), but I got my mug, so I continue my streak of having every year&#8217;s mug.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/100712chili.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was also the opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/modgethanc.com\/\">Vincent&#8217;s<\/a> exhibit of photographs at the Trinity Gallery. It was kind of awesome to see&#8230; yay gallery shows by people we know!<br \/>\n(Photo kind of related&#8230; it&#8217;s bblum biking home on the way to the opening.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/100712ben.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today was Tartan production. I had done a crossword for the paper last week, but it was a really crappy one. This week, Greg helped me and (after one failed attempt and a couple times of giving up) we ended up with a reasonable crossword that is reasonably dense and rotationally symmetric. Hopefully we&#8217;ll do even better next week with finding more common words.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/junk.alanv.org\/images\/emilydaniel.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week was a 66th monthiversary and an associated dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/pointbrugge.com\/\">Point Brugge<\/a> which has really tasty mussels (and reasonably good, but very oily, fries).<\/p>\n<p>Life continues to be good. :)<\/p>\n<p>I really should be pursuing more personal side projects, but I&#8217;m kind of a fan of this whole &#8220;fill my life with friends and events with friends&#8221;, so I suppose it&#8217;s not all bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>life has gotten an update bringing it up to the beginning of this month. I had quite an eventful last month, it seems. 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