let them drink wine

had a wine tasting party last friday. i guess about 40 or so showed...we counted 25 empty wine bottles the next morning. the sterling 2001 cabernet was the winner, but since that was our contribution, we disqualified ourselves. a sterling 1999 cabernet tied with the toad holllow zin for second, and brian and kathy shared the stash of minis...brian choosing the amber drinks and kathy the clear. i was surprised that the boone's farm blue hawaiian didn't fare any better than the one sympathy vote that it got.

the cat got into some stray cheese that was left around and puked from one end of the house to the other. fortunately tracy saw fit to clean it up as i continued to slumber. i napped on the sofa until 1 or so on saturday and then got ready to go to biloxi for a christmas party. after dinner and drinks we threw some money into the coffers of the casino....they looked like they could use it better than i. spent the night, had a shitty breakfast, and made it home before noon.

made a pot of chili and put a fire in the fireplace. brian and melissa came over after they put skyler to bed. brian and i sampled the bushmills black label that nitram brought as my christmas gift. did a side-by-side taste test with the bushmills white label. the black bush is so good. i need to have nitram over for a taste or six.