ritaxis | Playing with fotobilder (1592 words)

I have no idea how you access this from here, but I did put up some pictures. The point was that I wanted to show off the label for the 2003 wine which I finally bottled today and not a moment too soon as I am a week almost behind in racking and sending this year's wine to the secondary but I got a little bit incolved and threw in some other labels I made and a picture of a couple of pipers with cold hands and the sun in their eyes.

So it turns out that I really do need new glasses. And it turns out that double-sided poster tape doesn't really stick photo paper labels to wine bottles very well. And that I can spend a good half hour scrubbing a dozen bottles with dish detergent, Method, bleach, baking soda, and egg shells, and still not get all the adhesive off the outsides or all the sediments off the insides. (actually, fourteen bottles)

The nice fellow says I should probably already be calling it vinegar, but it's not. Really, it's quite drinkable. Or at least cookable-with. As I will prove over the next few months.

It has taken me another week to not quite finish chapter 16, most of which time I have spent not writing because of pain and hassle. But I did nearly finish the chapter today. Our guy is busily getting thrown out of Forager Girl's apartment, and the next Wish is about to happen: Winston's going to wish he could afford an apartment of his own rather than live with such spoilsports as his roommates who don't want him to bring home homeless losers on a repeat basis. And then: chapter 17! Who the heck knows! I've got to get my guy to lose the money he has in his pocket before Chapter 18, and I have an idea for how to have it happen, but I'm worried about it. I actually like Oakland, and I don't want to add to the disrespect the city gets.

This is the first time I have used the rich text mode and I'm noticing all these squirrely little buttons. I know what most of them are, but they make me feel lightheaded.

I think I could use the add-image if I knew what the URL of the fotobilder gallery is.