Thoughts from Howard Yermish about technology, music composition, wine, bicycling and being human.
I always love to see that wine is actually good for you. This study is specifically about longevity. Of course, please drink responsibly.
New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging
Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human life span, a new report suggests.
Today was one of those days. With guests staying with us, I shut down my desktop machine, an old dual-processor G4 from 2002. It is quite noisy. When I went to power it up this morning, it didn’t. Nothing, nada, zip. Uh-oh. Usual tricks didn’t work either. Double uh-oh. So I walked away to try to enjoy the rest of the day as we were throwing a spring version of my daughter’s birthday party.
From my laptop, I needed to print a couple of pages for the party. I got out just enough before the printer informed me that it too was done. “Yellow Toner Empty,” it informed me. And it is one of those lasers that once one of the cartridges is empty, it won’t print anything. Ah well, I’m trying to go paperless anyway.
After dinner, I put my iPhone onto the charger since I was done for the day. About an hour later, I went to grab it off the charger and it was BURNING HOT! Seriously. I couldn’t physically handle it. The charger was pretty darn hot too so I unplugged that as well. AAAAAHH!!!
I managed to do something to get my G4 breathing again, and it is thankfully humming (wheezing) away. My guests will simply have to deal with it. New toner for my laser printer (it needs yellow and magenta) is about $120 per cartridge. The iPhone has yet to regain consciousness.
Time for a glass of wine. Okay, two glasses.
Check out this moment with Wine Library’s Gary Vaynerchuk on “The Big Idea” at this link.
”People are always talking about what you’re doing now… To me, it’s not what you’re doing now, it’s about where you’re going.”
- Gary Vaynerchuk
And Donny Deutsch responds…
“The difference between staying small and getting big in what ever you do in life…it’s the people, stupid. Invest in people and it will always come back.”
When I lived in California, I didn’t drink wine. Now I live in New Jersey and I love trying many wines. Thanks to some old fashioned laws leftover from prohibition, shipping wines to New Jersey is a pain. And, many other states suffer with similar problems.
What does this mean?
It means that I cannot order wines from around the country. In fact, you probably cannot either. So if you want your wine, get involved.
Maybe this should be the wedge issue in the next election. Thank goodness for Wine Library, but unless I make the two hour drive, I pay tax and shipping.
Last night, our family and the friends we are staying with had the privilege of having dinner with wine maker Andy Troutman and his family. Since I’ve been a little bit obsessed with wine for the past 18 months, I seriously enjoyed the whole experience.
Andy’s house is at the Winery at Wolf Creek, somewhere near Canton, Akron, and Cleveland, Ohio. Andy and his wife Deanna had a nice spread of different foods and cheeses, and of course, wine. We started with a tour of the vineyard, which included meeting some of the goats (they are experimenting with goat cheese), walking the upper grounds and then to the winery. It was very cool to see all of the different equipment, the large tanks, barrels, and such with Andy describing the process along the way.
After the tour, I tried a whole bunch of different wines from the vineyard and purchased a bunch to take home with me. (My official tasting notes will be on Cork’d as I drink them.) Then it was back to the house for more wine and food and laughter.
Both the adults and children had a blast for hours and we went through A LOT of wine. I’m a light-weight as I usually have one a single glass each night. Needless to say, over the course of the evening more bottles than adults were opened and finished.
Andy was great. He actually helped teach me about certain types of tastes in wines that I could pick out from the wines we were sampling. So, I consider the evening educational.
Today, we are heading home from Ohio, but will stop at Troutman Vineyards to pick up a few more bottles. If you ever are in the area, make sure to stop in, say hello and try a few wines.
Since my 35th birthday back in November of 2006, I have been on a quest to expand my wine tasting palate. Like everything that I do and similar to my father, I make my interests into obsessions.
In my house, I’m the only one that drinks wine. The kids like to smell the wine, usually claiming that they smell “strawberries on the edge.” Their training will have to wait a bit longer.
My goal was to try a different bottle of wine without repeating for a whole year. Having one glass per night as recommended, each bottle lasted about 4 nights. I kept my tasting notes and reviews on Cork’d, a social networking site for wine lovers.
Along the way I was inspired by WineLibraryTV, a great video podcast where host Gary Vaynerchuk tastes 2-4 wines, 5 nights per week. His podcast is fun and very educational, if not way over the top.
As of this post, I’ve tracked 134 wines in my Cork’d journal, which doesn’t include wines at friends houses or at restaurants or tasting events. What have I learned? I really enjoy tasting different wines!
So the plan is to keep going with the no repeat philosophy for as long as I can manage.
