standards are slipping ...
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ramtopsI opened a bottle of Premier Cru Chablis tonight (well, it is my half century today ..), and it had a *plastic cork*. I'm sure lots of people will tell me these are better for all sorts of reasons, but I don't like them.
we're not doing anything to celebrate my birthday today - we have a *major* site launch to be ready by Wednesday morning, and I woke up with a very painful chest, which is turning itself into a nassty cold.
but we shall have friends round on Friday, then off to dinner on Saturday with cdc and Liz, WANOLJ, and then over to Ciren on Sunday to collect a kitten cage from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
valkyrie_k and landsmand.
so tonight is a mega takeaway from the Chinese that delivers (god bless 'em) and a DVD or summat, before dragging my sniffly self off to an early grave^H^H^H^H^H bed. No presents - himself and I don't do birthday/dead prophet's day presents, preferring to a) eschew the commercialism, and b) buy what we want when we want it (if we can afford it, of course).
oh, before I go, one of my birthday cards fromperlmonger was a "Congratulations on the Arrival of Twins" thing.
no, I'm not pregnant - but TWO arrive at the beginning of December, god help us.
right then - now to write up the extraordinary thing that happened today.
we're not doing anything to celebrate my birthday today - we have a *major* site launch to be ready by Wednesday morning, and I woke up with a very painful chest, which is turning itself into a nassty cold.
but we shall have friends round on Friday, then off to dinner on Saturday with cdc and Liz, WANOLJ, and then over to Ciren on Sunday to collect a kitten cage from
valkyrie_k and landsmand.so tonight is a mega takeaway from the Chinese that delivers (god bless 'em) and a DVD or summat, before dragging my sniffly self off to an early grave^H^H^H^H^H bed. No presents - himself and I don't do birthday/dead prophet's day presents, preferring to a) eschew the commercialism, and b) buy what we want when we want it (if we can afford it, of course).
oh, before I go, one of my birthday cards from
perlmonger was a "Congratulations on the Arrival of Twins" thing.no, I'm not pregnant - but TWO arrive at the beginning of December, god help us.
right then - now to write up the extraordinary thing that happened today.
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Many Happies
Date: 2003-11-03 11:59 am (UTC)Re the liquid, it may well be the case that plastic 'corks' are better for the contents, but like screw-rops I find that I associate them with downmarket plonk and not with a premier cru of any description!
cheers
Date: 2003-11-03 12:40 pm (UTC)thanks - this is a big PLC jobbie, with all sorts of clever stuff like live share data and so forth. My word, but I've learned a lot while we wrote it! I'll be glad when it's launched - then we can have a few days off before we have to quote and implement Phase 2!
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Date: 2003-11-03 12:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-11-03 01:08 pm (UTC)Have a virtual Dark and Stormy.
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Date: 2003-11-03 03:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-11-04 01:41 pm (UTC)