Merry Christmas, guys.

Me and my parents, sister and her boyfriend, aunt and uncle, and grandmother all opened presents together in my grandmother's living room and then ate copious amounts of turkey and various associated festive foods.

I got the duty traditionally held by my, now late, grandfather - setting the table and choosing the wines. With my family, these are not especially easy tasks given the hundreds of china patterns and dozens of silverware patterns and tablecloths (and associated other stuff) that my grandfather accumulated during his life. He was also a certified sommelier who published a prominent wine guide for a couple decades there and kept a thousand bottle cellar. I don't know a damn thing about wine, but my grandmother is under the impression that I can tell whether a 1970 Chateau Mouton Rothschild (roughly a $500 bottle of wine) is corked or not based on the fact that I know what I'm doing when it comes to beer (this is more than can be said for anyone else, however, which makes me the de facto expert). I'm scared to death that one of these days she'll expect me to give the word on one of the real bottles from my grandfather's "prized collection" (all valued at around $1,000/bottle to well over $10,000). Something like one of the bottles of '82 Chateau d'Yquem (~$6,200) I think I could handle; Semillon is supposed to be sweet and I can understand dessert wine. However, the difference between a perfect 60 year old dry red and an overaged/corked/vinegared/whatevered 60 year old dry red is less clear (as in, I can't tell the difference unless it is straight-up vinegar, which is scary when ######ing around with bottles that are worth as much as my car and could be laced with botulism for all I know).

-Pufer

This post has been edited by Pufer: 31 December 2007 - 01:28 AM

Yeah, I live in the desert. Granted, it's been cold as hell for the past week or two, but we just put on jackets and spend most of our time inside.

I've never understood sweaters. Where are all of the sweater-wearers living where sweater wearing is bearable indoors? I mean, I could probably pull it off in my room where the temperature rarely gets above 60 (15.5 C for Lek) in the winter or my bathroom where the temperature usually hovers around 48 (8.8 C), but I usually just wear a short sleeved polo shirt and shorts while kicking around at home. Don't most people actually heat their homes/schools/places of work off in colder climates? 68 is about right as far as I'm concerned, why would you want to screw up perfect interior weather with a sweater?

-Pufer

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