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  1. I didn’t know that. Our biggest wine budget friend was in charge of the fantasy football draft location that year and his birthday fell on one of the days of our 4 days/3 nights. His being a fairly successful investment banker based in Houston is a nice addition to the group of high school friends, but I guess that he covered more than just the accommodations that year (house with guest house and pool on 3 or so acres right outside of Healdsburg). I had no idea that any of the 4 group tastings we did had cost anything. I just thought that if enough of our group purchased wine at the end of our tastings that the tastings were free. Having wealthy friends has some privileges.
  2. Best Chablis style Chardonnay in Sonoma County (that I have tried) came from the husband & wife team of Ceritas wines. https://www.ceritaswines.com/ You may have to be on their email list to have access to their wine… and you may have to visit their winery to get on their list, but their various Chardonnays are fucking fantastic. Light, slight fruit, medium+ acidity, some have a slight sur lie presence on some of their wines, but never beating you over the head with new American oak (the worst characteristic a white wine could have in my opinion)… just pure quality.
  3. 👏👏 Definitely NOT “every year”. Either: Aay) 2 years after/before each Winter Olympics or Bee) the year before the Winter Olympics.
  4. Russians face off in one match and Germany’s neighbors face off in the other. Tauson has the most unfortunate jawline on the WTA.
  5. Other ladies are employing the Ostapenko method of going for it. Yesterday Yastremska did it in the first set (but lost it in a tiebreaker) and then today young Mirra busted out a can of whoopass! DOWN goes Iga… Again. 😁 75 points vs 52 points is an absolute route in tennis
  6. Three Russian-born girls in that bottom bracket. Mirra played an hour long match in the morning while Stearns played about 2 1/2 hours. Then they played each other after Iga’s 2 set match. The on-court interviewer asked Peyton about having to play again after such a grueling match and Peyton said: “I’m made for this.” No one is made for that. At least not anyone currently on your. Mirra basically had a practice session and Stearns played a full match in the sun and 51% humidity. She did well, but that outcome be Andreeva had to have been the surest bet in the entire tournament.
  7. But first… Yamstremska’s nipples are taking center court. Hitting record and going back to sleep. Windchill appears to be 3°F in my barrio of Dallas. Will sleep well.
  8. Zheng has absolutely lost the plot. She was hitting unforced errors all over the place in the 2nd set and her first serve percentage has fallen as her efficiency off of 1st serves. (She won 91% of her first serve points in the 1st set.) Stearns up a break at the start of the 3rd set, but looks a little wild on her own serve. Just saved a break point and now has an ad point to go up 2-0.
  9. I see him out Kremp walkin’ on Sundays at the park.
  10. The Tennis Podcast was talking on Sunday’s or Monday’s pod that Elena Rybakina’s former/future coach is still banned from the tour for one year. Despite Rybakina saying that she doesn’t believe that he should be suspended, after they initially parted ways, he was suspended for emotionally abusive behavior towards her. 1) He screamed that she was stupid. 2) He told her that if it weren’t for him, she’d still be in Russia picking potatoes. Also, Rybakina’s manager has been fired and this ex-coach is handling those duties. Oh, and they are also sleeping together. Which is another thing.
  11. 🇨🇳 Zheng (7) 4 🎾 🇺🇸 Stearns🤘 3 Zheng appears to be decidedly better than Stearns and Stearns is being questioned by a team of physios, so the Tennis Channel has gone to a second set of commercials. Checking her blood pressure now.
  12. I think that she did Amanda a solid by beating Coco. Now Amanda’s tank job in the first round doesn’t look so obvious. 😁 Plus, being compared to post-COVID lockdown Sloane is the ultimate diss.
  13. When I signed up for T-Mobile, one of the things was “1 Year of Apple TV”… And then almost immediately everything on Apple TV went behind an Apple TV+ paywall. I basically gave up on All Apple programming because fuck them, that’s why.
  14. Napoleon

    SXSW 2025

    Are these intentional bands? Domestic bands? A mix? Just Texas bands? I don’t keep up with music like I keep up with sports and football recruiting… but I think the fact that I haven’t heard of one band on that list is pretty revealing as to how much effort I put into to following new music. Same questions for…
  15. If she needs a massage to work out some lingering issues, I am available. ✋🤚 Smart move by those ladies.
  16. That sounds awesome… and makes more sense (to me). I have a friend who worked for McKinsey a long while ago and he put in for a shift at their Amsterdam office because his mother was/is Dutch and had cousins in the city. It was a 12 month gig that stretched to 18 months, I think. It was before he had kids, but he proposed before he went to bring his girlfriend, because she would only go as a fiancée… Who knows if he made the right decision? 🤷‍♂️ But consulting has its privileges.
  17. I like Amsterdam. I have been 3 times (‘92, ‘97, & ‘00). I can’t imagine what to do with 21 days to plan in that little city. Were you there for work? There for an operation? What did you do to fill the days?
  18. “Good clean ball strike.” “A couple of big ball strikers.” Don’t know if I ever want to bump into Badosa or Sun in a dark alley, but they are playing now. Badosa won the first set. Sun just blew her first opportunity to break Badosa in the second set. (Paula is having ball toss issues in the breeze.)
  19. Night shots?
  20. I have no idea how this woman is still ranked in the Top 30. It seems like she hasn’t won a match in forever. #29 in the rankings
  21. He has an AUTOIMMUNE thing…. ALS, MS (which another friend has and he is kind of the easy-going somewhat frail dad that plays the dad/granddad role)… When your immune system doesn’t recognize your own body, it isn’t as simple as taking Jardiance to lower your A1C.
  22. Having fucked a girl with ALS for a while… I can tell you that he’s NOT going to “beat it”. (The disease, not his meat.) He will likely be able to take some medication that weakens his immune system so that it isn’t crippling him all of the time, but he’s not likely to ever tour again. He may get to the point where he can occasionally play at an event, but 65+ year-old people with weakened immune systems do not risk touring. He’s really lucky that the nerve pain hasn’t hit yet The girl I was dating was a doctor that had become a professor, but then had to retire from that because the standing and presenting was no longer possible. She was an English major in college (Ivy League) so she started working on research projects. The other people did the research and she typed away from home making the information understandable, because most doctors suck at writing. Even typing away from home became too much and now she just does what she can, takes tons of pills at different times of day, and hopes that something is discovered. All this and she currently is only 54 years old and only leaves her building for doctors appointments.
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