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The Budding Wino

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A couple months ago, GFI, Modigli and I hit up a local place called Wine Steals, their new location in Point Loma.  While there, I sampled a wine called Saxon Brown. It was white, but I had no idea what kind of white it was… chardonnay, pinot grigio, what?  In any case, it was delicious and my favorite of the several different varieties we tried that day.  I didn’t end up buying a bottle, but I can’t recall why since I rarely leave there without one.  (Their prices are fabulous… great wine for low prices, hence the name.)

I’ve been looking for it ever since whenever I go to the store. I’ve tried various grocery and specialty stores, though I didn’t try the Bevmo, the Church of Liquor. Since I didn’t know what kind of white I was looking for, I was having a hard time browsing for it.  There’s a lot of white wine out there!

Well, just now I was perusing one of my daily stops, woot.com and it’s sister site, wine.woot.com.  And lo, there was Saxon Brown. Yea, verily, I bought myself the weekly special on the spot. And then I stopped talking all bibley.  I’m so excited! This was posted on the 12th and I just lucked out that it’s the weekend and they didn’t switch it yet because with Woot, once it’s gone, it’s gone.  Woo hoo!

I’m not a fancy know-it-all wine person. I just know what I like and this stuff was delicious. I highly recommend the Semillion, but I’m looking forward to trying the Syrah Rosé, even though I haven’t had a blush since 1995.  If you want some, get it while it’s hot!

Bag Lady

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Mobile Edge Pink Komen Milano BagI will have this bag come hell or high water.

I’ve been on a search for a stylish laptop bag that doesn’t look like it was made to either 1) scale Everest or 2) hold Jimmy Hoffa in one of many secret zippered padded wireless media compartments.  Some of those bags are so complicated! Straps and pockets and zippers, oh my!  I don’t want to have to be tutored by NASA before I can store my computer.  I do want a little extra space so I can store my peripherals and maybe a notebook… paperwork, that sort of thing. But nothing that requires an allen wrench and and a secret decoder ring.

Sure, I’ve found some cute ones, but they’re all for those laptops made in Lilliput.  WTF?  I see all these people at Starbucks with their weensy little laptops, typing away on something that looks more like a Speak n’ Spell than a PC.  How do they type on those things? All my code would look like qoikng[wpnq-[rqgpbnpEN if I had one of those.  Not to mention a neck that tilts at a 90 degree angle. I’m 5’10 for pete’s sake.

I bought this pink and black cheapie job at Target to hold me until I found a sturdier bag, especially for travel, but it’s again, made for the 14” or smaller screens.  I would have kept on using it because I like the style alright and I like the inside a lot, but I’ve got a 15.4” screen. It’s proving to be difficult to find a decent, cute bag.

Of course, I finally find one I really like (mikey actually picked it out — “That’s SO ’Moxie‘, babe.”) that’s reasonably priced 4 days before I leave for SXSW and now I have to see if they’ll ship it quick like a bunny.  Chop chop!