Disaster narrowly averted

Although it really shouldn't be season-specific, I associate the end of the year with a nice Stilton and a glass or two of proper Port. I started on the Stilton while I was out of town visiting, but now I'm back in London I was about to spoon out another piece when disaster struck! No Port!

Sorting through my drinks cupboard led to plenty of Cognac, Whisky ( Laphroaig, Scapa, and 'visitor'), Rums, Vodkas and liqueurs, but Port was obvious by its absence.

With great relief, however, a visit to the wine racks in the hall presented me with a bottle of white Port and an unopened Tawny Superior, Quinta do Infantado, which I must have put there after my last visit to Lisbon, which means it has spent quite some time in bottle — about nine years in fact! Anyway, with Port and Stilton alongside my chair, and a movie showing on the television, I shall now take my leave of you …

Servers and alcohol

Today I successfully moved my MySQL databases from a server in Pittsburgh PA to a server closer to home, UK along with one of the sites which uses said databases as a check. All good. To celebrate I had a couple of glasses of nice red wine with dinner … "One glass I'm anyone's,
Two glasses I'm everyone's,
Three glasses I'm no-one's." Except I'm here on my own tonight. Oh dear ;-P