Yellow Tail – Shiraz – 2007

September 3, 2008 at 1935 · Filed under alcohol

Oh, Yellow Tail, you saucy wench. In the two months I have been exploring the red wine universe, Shiraz has eluded me. I had a glass at a bar, where I tried (and liked!) my first Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon, but the Shiraz left me traumatized. “Oh, God,” I thought, “this tastes like the back of my dog’s ass.”

However, a nasty bottle of Chianti (what got me drinking wine in the first place) that tasted like wilted tulips taught me that every type of wine has its bad apples. “Try Yellow Tail!,” my wine-guzzling friend encouraged. “It’s my favorite!” However, this is a gal who mixes an entire container of wasabi into her rice, so I think her taste buds burned off ages ago.

What the hell. I went for it. And damn, it was good. I mean, it didn’t make me want to swill the whole bottle or hump a wall, but yeah. I liked it.

Fuckin’ koalas.

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Dinner post.

September 2, 2008 at 1956 · Filed under asstarded, being single, food, other crafts

Normally, I don’t find dinnertime (especially my dinnertime) fascinating enough to blog about, but this dinner involved BACON.

First, I had to prepare the bacon. I arranged six 3/4-strips of uncooked bacon in a weave-like configuration. Why weave the bacon? Because I’m fancy like that, that’s why. Also, I read about it somewhere. Credit where credit’s due.

I then cooked the bacon in the oven according to the package direction. Usually us hacker types don’t follow directions, but when bacon is involved you can’t be too careful.

While the bacon was baking (AHAHhahahaha,) I prepared two eggs:

You may be asking yourself “how did she get those eggs so square?” I’ll tell you– four years of graph theory. That’s how, bitches.

Finally, the bacon was done. I toasted two slices of bread while I marveled at the bacony glory:

Assembly time. Behold! Dinner:

I’d like to let all you gentlemen out there know that, yes, I am single. Perplexing, isn’t it?

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