Kevin's musings

On the transitory nature of wines.

Drinking a nice bottle of merlot tonight and it got me thinking. Sure,
with the mass produced vats of wine there are a number of
bottles of each particular wine made, but still each one is it’s
own particular grapes. Even if there are 10,000 bottles of some
particular wine “batch” bottled, you have to think after a few
years most of those bottles are either gone and drunk, or
sitting in some collectors basement. So, enjoy the unique bottle
of wine that you have. Those grapes and that yeast fermented for
you!

Side note: the wine I had tonight was a 1997 mendocino merlot –
Sketchbook collection. They have a
website
which is pretty unimpressive. I was hoping they would at least have
images of the labels. The label is surely why I got this
wine. It has a old hound on it (looks white with brindle spots)
saying “don’t wake me – I’m old”.

A word about D&D:

I’ve been playing in a D&D game (most) every tuesday night for a
while. It’s really been quite nice to do some role playing
again. I really missed it. Exersizing your imagination, your
ability to think of what to do in weird/tough situations, and
hang out with cool people are all quite nice. D&D isn’t
something I remember too well, since I last played 1st edition
AD&D and started with basic D&D. In a lot of senses the system
itself doesn’t matter, the role playing and figuring things out
is the important part. I do prefer
GURPS over D&D as a
system, but I guess in the end it doesn’t matter.

Speaking of
GURPS
as soon as I get my new copies of the 4th edition books (just coming
out now), I am planning on running a game here. Probibly monday
or wed night. I have a few takers already, but could use a few
more. Anyone interested? Drop me an email.