Several Reasons Why I Have Only Blogged Four Times in the Past Six Weeks!
I've become a pathetic blogger and have received numerous e-mails from my readers complaining about my lack of blogactivity.
There are several reasons I have been inactive:
- I am in France
- I had house guests for two weeks
- My two children visited us and we took time off
- I toured the Loire Valley without an internet connection
- I traveled twice to Alsace to see my in-laws
- I spent huge amounts of time shopping and barbecuing for 14 house guests
- I received endless phone calls from the Pacific Northwest from 9 pm through 11 pm
- I have arthritic pain around my thumbs and it is painful to type
- I have been drinking great older wines from my personal cellar and feel no particular compunction to share this experience over a blog
- I'm hostile, aggressive and don't care
- I've been blogging so long, don't forget I personally invented the wine blog, that I fear constant activity will land me a profile on Tom Wark's wine blog
- Now that Alice Feiring's book is out, the battle has been won and I no longer need to crusade for real wine
- My home's sewage system overflowed when we had the 14 house guests and we had to have an emergency vehicle come here from Mâcon.
- I spend my afternoons fishing on the Saône River
- My main interaction with wine is through the vignerons we work with and the wines we import, not my blog
- I've been busy mounting and dismounting the new tent I bought at Decathlon
- I read Neal Rosenthal's autobiography three times since mid-June
- I read Eric Clapton's autobiography since I came here
- Eric Clapon finds he has digestive problems when he tours and he doesn't have to eat huge meals at vignerons
- Imagine how I feel! Clapton doesn't have to eat andouilettes!
- I don't get daily e-mails from Rick Franco
- I have been enjoying my dog Buster, who has had a burst of youthfulness out here in the Mâconnais
- I am demoralized by my feud with the Grocery Guy
- I'm an old man and it is inappropriate for someone my age to be blogging
plus: that Raclette!