standards are slipping ...

[ramtops]

I 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 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.

Comments

Many Happies

[vampwillow]

oooh! I never seemt of keep track of date things, so many happies a little late in the day (and good wishes for site launch too)

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

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

> good wishes for site launch too

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!