Back in the poz loft office.  No need for dinner after the sliders.  Tonight thinking bed early.  Listening to the Eric Hilton list again.  Been a go-to of late.  Not sure … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Food not here yet.  Nearly done with glass, will order another.  Not in the mood for pinot or anything red.  Thought about it, but….. Wine is my beat.  That … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Saturday November 5th, 2022.

Just wanted to write out the whole date for once.  Day any everything.  In office, kids picked up, first latte from Café Noto in a while.  Some aims for day, but no harsh self-emphasis and pointing… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Getting close to bedtime.  All three of the kids here, FINALLY.  Henry sick last weekend, and then me with covid weekend before.  Or was it the weekend before…. Losing track of time … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Again getting a shot of that gratitude.  With the coffee, working at the counter here.  Love my office but needed a change of consistent visuals and actual chair.  The other day work… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

#vinolit

Love. Music. Art Me. FOREVER. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

The wine story, looking through all my pics,

seeing a metal pipe (I don’t what you’d call it, the winemaker/-ing term for…) in barrel, filling.  Racking as they say. Back from lunch with an AE at the last company.  Things over there stil… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

11/3/22

New day.  Working at home.  Going back and forth between four journals, possibly five.  Work journals and then mine own on this laptop for example and then the RECORD book.  Sle… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Taking a night, break

Need collect Relax and see More of the scene And its poetey | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Last year…

My littlest …. Tired, just wanting cuddles. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

3:54 Mom and Dad here soon.  Kids upstairs while I do a little work down here.  They negotiate Roblox monies, or something.  This goes to Jack, then this goes to Emma.  Warned J… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Note

Stories never stop, they only show more intensity in providing for the main character. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Reviewing past notes…

Tracking the new and Now-Mike Madigan. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Ready to run a couple errands with them.

Jack much better, thank EVERYTHING. Latte almost done and wanting more caffeine but resisting. Already starting on NaNoWriMo effort.  400+ words… a sales story but completely against sales. Be… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

1 Day, 1 Year. Ago.

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@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

11:14

Little chill time, as Emma said “Today’s our chill day, and tomorrow’s Monday Funday because it’s Halloween!” I want to be like them, more playful and just taking all scenes as they land. Dad teach… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Sales and what it is, what it’s perceived to be.  How they say at this new company “No one wants to talk to sales people…” So I’m not doing that.  I’m approaching this as a writer, blogger.  That’s… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Jack with a fever but feeling better.  

….. Yesterday’s Emergency care visit, shaking me but the later composed and better.  Just what I thought, he has some virus, take tylenol to keep down fever and wait it out.  Rest o… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Day and a year ago…

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@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

10:51

Night talks to me. Simplify, it says. New ire, love. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

10:26.  Holy shit it’s late.  

….. Back from Mom and Dad’s, Jack with a little fever.   99.7.  Chewable kids ibuprofen to bring down fever hopefully.  Me with barely any energy to write but lifted by writing… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Working in loft still,  Jack relaxing on couch and feeling better.   Me on Diet Coke number 2.  There, just opened it and took a sip.  Dinner at Mom and Dad’s tonight, Henry sta… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Some portions of learning the technology are a bit convoluted.  

And it’s my inexperience with it, not the instruction.  I’m learning, and yes there’s a learning curve but I only need to know the tech so well, as I found out as an AE at Sonic.  Just slow.. ask q… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Training over.  Emails sent, Jack home because he didn’t feel well this morning.  He’s feeling better now, and I’m in a bit of a cruise control.  Excited to be back in office on California Street, … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Big kids here, my heart heaping.  Got a couple things with them at store… 

Quick snack, now they relax in the loft on couch while I finish a couple builds here in office.  Feel like it’s been forever since I’ve seen them, and it essentially has.  Nearly two weeks is a for… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Taking a second, reviewing notes from the first training this morning.  On sales, from a sales guy in real estate, New York-based during much of his stories but now in Jersey.  Talking ab… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Working from home today.  Just finished two trainings and on break till 11:30.  

Have two calls to make, my first sales calls responding to inbound leads.  Clearing desk, simplifying and trying to go as paperless as I can.  Remove clutter, simplify and singularize and consolida… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

8:47

Didn’t think I’d make it down here to the poz loft office, and definitely didn’t think I’d make ti over 1000.  And a haiku.  9 of the 1000 set for project. I’ll go upstairs in a minute but not with… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

9/1000

(No title) ….. Calm, because the street Has so many songs, renew All it, a love nudge  | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Needed.  As are the cheater glasses.  Need to wear them.  Don’t want to, having an urge to resist but I can’t, I’m tired and put them on.  And you know what, I’m not fighting an… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Interesting day, for sure.  I don’t know if interesting is the word.  Who cares wha the words is, kept me engaged.  More of this new story which is turning into an adventure, obvious… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Influential

Table | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Scars Learn

My eyes, decide fire Message, check it, don’t want to Angry happy court | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

9:17… some chill house, and the exhaustion is catching me.

Thinking bed sooner than forecast.  Looking through old Sonic pics, President’s Club trip and other… time just passing and I know there’s nothing I can do to stop or augment.  Just be present. Mess… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

10/24/22

Haven’t had a long day like this in years.  LOVE it.  7:55, bed by 10:30, latest.  Driving from SF stressing about time and how this schedule rearranges and condenses EVERYTHING.  Not as much.  So … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Bakery Call

Morning, quantity Receipt, count Everything needed Desperate Rushes and visit, take quick pic | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Headed to Napa.  Tomorrow, early early wake.  Soon as I’m back on this side of the mountain, dinner, prep, then sleep.  No movies, no lounging and music listening.  The new syst… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

4:31 – Out of shower, short nap, at desk with a glass of SB, thinking about the week ahead.  

….. Time and my  place in its skips.  Coltrane on, thinking about walking to the Green, getting out of the house.  Still having that feeling of restlessness and slight incarcer… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Clothes, new shoes at Target as I didn’t want to fork over the price for the expensive shit at Macy’s.  Lunch at Lupe’s, switched out more laundry now time to rest.  Possibly a power nap then back … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

After this entry promising to attack the kitchen, clean, get it out of my head.

Looks like the wind has stopped, weird.  Sipping this latte quicker than quick… Thinking about taking self to lunch in Petaluma, some new spot on the river.  Can’t remember its name. … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

First walk to Café Noto in over a week.  First latte.  Wind, lots of it.  Started laundry, putting away clothes later, my laundry and Chardonnay party.  But now, nothing much to write or report.  P… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Sensei Language With

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@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

12:36 Another meeting at 1.  Then a break.  Break from coffee.  Listening to a virtual meeting, one recorded months ago.  Going to do well here, I know.  I’ve decided so, b… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

One meeting down and another in 15.  Metaphor of drinking from the firehose.  Somewhat applicable, hate the way that sounds and the thought of all this water coming at me.  Don’t fee… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

8/1000

(No title) ….. Just bobbing my head Humans interest me no Today and never | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Journal writings, one line reading how I’m teaching myself to write all over again.  

To not care, just put everything to page.  Dinner done, light dinner, rest of gyro and an Oliver’s mini-Caesar wit no chicken.  Now some Mourvedre and Thievery Corporation the more music after in o… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

Test in progress.  Hoping for negative.  Training all day, didn’t sleep well.  Miss the kids and kept thinking about them, Jack and how he’s doing with his most recent covid stint.  Break over in 1… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago

1:17 not hungry for lunch, took a shower instead.  Have a call any minute, till then collecting and looking through notes.  All this technology, new technology anyhow I’ll speak it. … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 years ago