Coffee, coffee…. Focus on that for a second.  Having coffee in the morning, with the Nurse.  The conversations […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

11:22

Somewhat of a circle around the tower, my mind and mood.  Nothing negative, won’t let that happen anymore. […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

Office… Trying to get in front of clients.  Sending emails, one site visit scheduled.  Lunch being catered to […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

10:49 Moving like a deer, quick, bouncing, nearly airborne. Everything music.  All types have sound.  Met another team […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

1-2-24 In the office.  Listing what I want done, after the Nurse telling me that she has a […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

1st work day of ‘24… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

2024

11:38 Day very much in motion.  Coffee done.  Shaved, ready for day. Laptop low.  Ready for week.  Still […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

23:44… Nurse gets called into work. These are the

last words of the 2023 story, whatever it was, so much to recap so much inventory so many […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

Answered. New stories. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

from journal…

Sitting in this Fairfield Peet’s and writing for the first time is perfectly timed, right before the 1st […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

12-31-23 Peet’s Coffee.  Fairfield, CA. Bringing the Nurse a coffee at work.  After that back to Vacaville, writing […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 10 months ago

14:24 Day mellowing, and with an almost immediate shift. Raining still. Some business to do tonight, some of […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Wine and its new stories.  Its new instruction.  What I’m thinking about in this renewed wine story of mine.

Looking through the Facebook memories, and it’s all wine.  Walking in the vineyard, tasting something new, or even […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-29-23

….. Stressful start to day.  Just me and the big kids.  Have to get Henry at 1300.  Stressful […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Thursday December 28th, 2023:  In the loft, meeting, work started for day. The MSP definitely feels like an ER or jamming ICU today. Should be getting some coping strategies from the Nurse, or… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

14:49 Meeting done, day tomorrow planned.  Will need to wake early.  No thinking about it now.  Another picture from the BR Cohn shoot xmas eve, playing with colors in editor. Last e… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-27-23 –> 09:03 – In meeting.  Latte.  Rain.  Nurse left a bit ago, dropped me off here at the loft.

Tickets are again the primary aim today.  And I’m feeling SO alive this morning, for so many reasons. Photog project being given a sharp shove, but lovingly, today. Move money…. DONE.  Nurse a… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Nurse on her way over.  16:23 and already getting dark.  Took Henry’s stuffed Monkey to

Coffey Park, saw Emma and Jack for a bit.  Emma smiling uncontrollably and skating on rollerblades, gliding over the concrete to me for a quick hug & kiss.  Jack coming out to say hi, hug me an… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Today. 12/26/23 | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Old notes…

Visit the post for more. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-26-23 09:53 …..Committing to 10 tickets today, and then I’m calling it. Have to snap out of this somehow.  What can I do… forget the negativisms.  All of them.  Don’t speak … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Another shot from the Dutcher Crossing days.  Distracted by the colors, what I just wrote for the vvv wine blog.  Lazy xmas day, but not.  Me here with laptop and phone and wine iPad… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Putting together plans for BottledauxPhotog, which is what I’m calling it now.  Not ‘Photography. 

Starting with wine and Sonoma County…. Blogging, short posts.  Bringing max down from 199 to 115.  Words, word count I mean.   Sue tells me we’re tasting a Pinot tonight… interesting as Pinot is ra… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

4/29/16 | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-25-23 Xmas.  Just like that it’s here. Looking at vineyard pics from yesterday.  They look good from what I can see but won’t know more till I download them and edit. Memories, two yea… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Xmas Eve, meditation and missing kids.

Latte at Noto, breakfast too… hungry and wanted to treat myself. Putting more into the writing this morning. The kids and how sweet they were last night, this morning… how excited they are about Xm… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Cold and gorgeous morning in Sonoma County… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-23-23 Henry off to his appt, me back here with big kids thinking about the new year, what I want to do.  Laying out a REAL, no BS plan.  Using what I have.. camera arriving yesterday, … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

In those

crazy Kunde days…. ❤️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-22-23

Into the day… In love with the present.  Couldn’t write yesterday but now have too much to say.  Plan for new year still being written.  Photog and the wine industry, the dominant do… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Recently…

Zen. Music. Animation… Placement. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

20:15… Finally back with my kids. Seems like forever.  Jack can’t stop saying he loves me, how he missed me, how it’s “so good to talk to you, Dad…” Emma nearly knocking me over with a running… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Made my first therapy, or counseling appt a bit ago.  Am I excited?  I don’t know…

more interested to see how this affects me, what tools I pick up for “the toolkit” as Dad says.  I know I need to do this, for the reason maybe of just finally making the appointment and seeing if … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

In office.

Slow start to morning.  Talking and writing myself out of a little mood.  Not sure what caused it.  More than likely how much I miss the Nurse.  Has to be it.  Keep busy, like she advises.  That’s … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

……..

15:00 Day calms.  So quiet in the condo.  Still feels weird without the Nurse here…. Learning to keep […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

09:43 Another meeting in 15.  Standup meeting where we let each other know what our day looks like, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-19-23

Settling in, text from the Nurse.  So sweet and full of expression and truth. Need some revenue generation […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

20:53

….. The Nurse is my dominant note.  It’s obvious.  Raining.  In office.  Rarely am I down here this […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Might need some fresh air in a bit.  Have things here for lunch, but….  No idea.  Just write it out, Mike. 

What I say to myself once, twice, a few more times.  I know one day much later in […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

10:50 Thought about writing myself a ticket, but no.  Just doing what I would have put on that […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

09:10 Pummeled by new tickets.  First reaction is stress, then the next eagerness.  Like I’ve been challenged, like […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Looking through old pictures.  My son Jack, my dad… time in my face tonight.  Need another glass.  Yes, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

The Nurse sending me content, ideas… from single dad life to being divorced.  Every layer of new life and realization…

Keeping my Beat MY beat.  Not listening to anyone, too many contaminating and horribly horrible people trying to […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Scribbles… Writer always. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-17-23 11:24 Day starting.  Late.  Football and more sequestering. Pendulum my thoughts this morning, from one project to […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

12-15-23 Emma’s birthday.  My little girt.  8.  Not sure how….. feeling sick and the covid brain and it’s […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

10:24 And another meeting.  And yes, there is one after this as well.  Somehow have to fit in […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 11 months ago

Home…

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