Belated recommendations from Sonoma:

- Dessert wine: Mayo Family Winery's 2006 Late Harvest Gewürztraminer. Acquiring more of this was a key reason for our choice of Sonoma for our most recent wine region trip.

- Cheese: Rumiano's Peppato Aged Dry Monterey Jack with Peppercorns and California Mission David Jacks' Habanero Jack -- also by Rumiano ( Read more... )

I've been in the USA continuously since January 2007 ( Read more... )

Tonight, I took Nicole (nicolerego) to the Moss Beach Distillery and proposed to her (with this ring).  She said yes.

Looked at LJ this morning to notice that a large chunk of my friends had done this in the past day, so here goes...

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.

( The picture )

At roughly the same time as syncretin, I submitted my DNA to 23andMe.

In May, syncretin received his results ( Read more... )

Had an extremely bad experience with Fox Rent-a-Car tonight at San Jose airport tonight, which is unfortunate, because they're generally one of the cheapest options.

( Kinda long. Rather rant-ish. )

Round 1 to me, narrowly ( Read more... )

When I left Australia, I had a reasonable amount in superannuation, most of it in 'capital' funds, and a smaller amount in foreign shares, having switched a large amount out of stock market funds and into capital at pretty much the right time (just before the local stock market started falling ( Read more... )

A few months ago, nicolerego's cat, Midnite, moved in to stay with us. Shortly after, we bought her a little cat bed to curl up in. Despite our best attempts, she wasn't at all interested ( Read more... )

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