Meg's Food and Wine PageOnly Connect!(Untitled)- January 29, 2004 Computer problems are what have been keeping me from blogging, this time. Hopefully they will soon be resolved, and I'll post back....I'm thinking of moving to typepad, too -- Radio is among the (many) things that make my laptop crash. Chief among those is of course age (4 years is a long time for a laptop!) and operating system (yes, I'm still on Windows 98, and I also just bought a digital camera last week, and my tv is so old I needed an adapter to plug in the DVD). Anyhow, the...http://blogs.salon.com/0001848/2004/01/29.html#a90 (Untitled)- January 14, 2004 I Award Another Wine Book a Gold Star It&146;s January, ing freezing cold and windy again, no business to be found around town, no heat on in my apartment yet, and I have a large and unsightly facial blemish in the middle of my forehead. But, I am in a wonderfully happy mood . . . all because I bought another wine book today. . . I know, I know, like I need more. But this book so totally disarmed me, when I was in the bookstore doing &147;research&148; on wine books for my...http://blogs.salon.com/0001848/2004/01/14.html#a89 (Untitled)- January 10, 2004 Home alone. . . . As much as I hate it when I lose my constant companion (and soon-to-be husband!) to these long wine-buying trips he goes on at least once a year, there is something nice about having the time to look around and contemplate who we are, separately and together, while I am home alone in the much quieter and emptier apartment. So it's just the cat and me, here, sitting in the sun (thank god for these south-facing windows, because it is seriously...http://blogs.salon.com/0001848/2004/01/10.html#a88 (Untitled)- January 9, 2004 Monkfish with Sunchokes and Mushrooms, or. . .There&146;s a warm spot Just here, in front of the electric space heater. Maybe I&146;m just crazy, but it is rather cold in this apartment. Our heaters haven&146;t been working well all winter, and now the real January cold we&146;ve all been waiting for has arrived, this is a problem. Our very nice landlady has had the plumber out twice to bleed the radiators, which helped both times, but the system just isn&146;t working..http://blogs.salon.com/0001848/2004/01/08.html#a87 |