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



- Joe Dressner 8-02-2008 8:38 am


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