I've met one of my drinking goals, reducing my wine collection to fewer than 80 bottles. (Yes, I have drinking goals.) I opened one for dinner at home on Monday and finished it last night. Meanwhile I also brought a bottle to a dinner party on Wedensday. My collection now stands at 79 bottles.

Of course, since my "drinking problem" is really a ( Read more... )

I figured I'd do a check-in on my drinking problem (i.e., buying wine and liquor faster than I drink it, so it accumulates) so I looked back in my blog. Three months ago I had 86 bottles of wine on my shelf. Today I have 88. Pretty much holding steady. In the liquor cabinet I don't keep a total count of what's there but there is definitely more ( Read more... )

I've been working on whittling down my wine collection the last several months. I a) dropped my last wine club membership months ago, b) haven't visited a winery in over 6 months, and c) have made steady, if slow, progress on drinking the wine I already have despite d) finding it hard to resist buying a few bottles a month at great prices at Costco ( Read more... )

Why is all the rum gone?


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Last night I finished off two bottles of liquor. No, I didn't drink the whole bottles, I merely finished off the last bits of each.

I have an uncommon drinking problem, you see. It's not that I drink too much, it's that I tend to buy too much and then don't drink too much ( Read more... )

This past weekend Hawk and I celebrated a joint birthday party. Together we are now 86 years old! We hosted a potluck dinner party. 20 of our friends joined us.


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♪ Ninenty-nine bottles of beerwine on the wall, Ninenty-nine bottles of beerwine ♪

With recent wine tasting trips (such as last weekend's and the one the weekend before) and whatnot, I've added 25 bottles to my wine collection in the past two weeks, bringing its size to 99 bottles. Yes, that's quite a bit of new wine, especially as I consume 5-6 ( Read more... )

After a busy week at work last week I hit the skids this weekend. I sat around like a slug Friday night and most of the day Saturday. Today I met up with friends to visit a few wineries in the Livermore Valley area ( Read more... )

I finally finished a 1.75L bottle of Skyy vodka this weekend. No, I didn't drink it all at once. I've been working on it slowly, over time. It's been so long I'm not sure anymore but I think I've had it for 15 years!


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Today I packed away the bottles of wine I bought during my wine country trip last weekend. Here are the final tallies:

1. Prior to the trip I had 84 bottles of wine in my house. The fact that this was well below 100 was part of the reason I even considered another tasting trip. At times over the past few years my collection has peaked at upwards of ( Read more... )