Wrote earlier…

And after a 12+, actually 14, hour day…. Too tired to write. What stood out and spoke to me from day… Lunch spot in SF, 2nd time there. Traffic out of SF to OAK. Building in downtown Oakland, the c… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

11/16/22 – 5:56am.  Some time to self before the road.  

This hour is harsh, but I’m more or less used to it by now.  Tried turning on some music but Spotify acts strange just when I don’t need it to.  Event tonight in Oakland, will just make an appearan… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

11:51 Have a zoom meeting with this new networking group.  

But don’t know where to find the link.  So… may not happen. Sitting down after working and standing for close to an hour, now tired.  Another 10oz cup made.  May have lunch in a bit. No o… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Coffee

More | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

(note)

…….. Everything is something that teaches. Everything around you can be seen as a positive chord. Everything is music, meant to contribute to your beat. Too often we just give in to nay… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Thinking about a tasting room.  Ugh, hate that phrase…

… Then what do you call it? My wine story, speaking loudly this morning and in a way I can’t dismiss or just put to the side for sake of work.  Know I need to, I’m trying… Short stories … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Halfway through the month… already? 7:43 have been here about 10 minutes I think.  Might be the earliest I’ve landed at the office, and in SF since this new story started. Aim for today is to … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Thoughts collected,

Before they leave. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Mom and Dad’s, writing in the Nook Office as I used to before the 228 days.

More than merely motivated.  Fiery, eager, assured of my presence.  Knowing this Road is the correct one.  Hate that word, correct.  I’m present, closer to my little vineyard an… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

There will be no

interfering with my pursuits. It’s my story and I decide all Roads… Thankful bank. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

After lunch with little Emma and soon after  Jack, more level and more of a character Composition useful.  Acknowledging, what I’m now practicing.  More than some trie mention of awa… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Single dad note

Some days test you. And test you more. You learn. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Emma and Henry enjoying cereal behind me at table.  Me, not feeling much like a parent, like I missed something, some course or…..  Ridiculous.  Again, humor.  It’s my day off a… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Not much sleep last night with Henry getting sick twice and both in my bed which was entertaining.  

Not much sleep last night with Henry getting sick twice and both in my bed which was entertaining.   Sheets washed and comforter now washing.  We slept downstairs, he on couch and me in D… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

6:17 back from field trip with to Sonoma Square, all those historic spots. 

Then visiting my Mom and Dad at the kids’ request to see my sister’s dog.  Grocery shopping at Safeway and surprisingly coming in under budget by a few bucks.  And I was surprised ‘cause there was … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Back from ‘bucks.  Took Henry and Emma, Jackie staying and playing his game.  Tell them the agenda for day, and get approval.  Guess Emma changed her mind post-Daddy breakfast. I’m g… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

No idea what I’m doing with the kids other than grocery shopping.

Dry cereal for breakfast, completely uncommon.  Sounded nice.  Not sure why.  Henry hungry, demanding waffles, then another, and while the third one cooks insists on a graham cracker.  Just as he’s… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

All three here.  Kerri’s birthday today… 

and no day off for me, which I still find strange working for a prop tech/security company based in DC.  ANYWHO…. Home and thinking of dinner options.  Have stuff here in house, told them Daddy Doo… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Kids ready for the most part, meeting over.  Cold down here in the office.  One more cup.  Getting into the Field later..  Haven’t run since my last pathetic 3.25 or whatever it… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Veteran’s Day.  Working from home with kids. 

My parents pick them up later.  2:45 call with SE to work up quote for the 818 Van Ness prospect. Not in the mood for this new story, not with the kids here.  Not anything they’re doing, just what … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Jack asks for V-bucks, however spelled and written, I buy. Why not.  Want him to enjoy his time here, and his life.  Seeing him smile is the ALL… my little poet, my Kerouac.  My litt… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

9:46

Not sure if I have work tomorrow, Veteran’s Day.  Maybe I do, but I don’t think so given the company is based in DC basically and provides security for government entities and building I think. Any… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

2note2self

(rewrite of a 2012 poem) ….. Journalist curved attitude Terse in Fits Even when bored – lessons leave Pattern please Behind journal waves Supposed graves 2B funny For all money, wonderi… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

At the courthouse.

That how to be a juror video. Oh my god….. Just tell me if you need me or not. I want to be dismissed and take a nap. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Debating on whether or not I take the laptop to jd. 

Yes, of course, one Mike says then the other is more along the go of, “Just take notes, write it later, when you get home.” But I know I won’t, I’d say to this latter thought-shape. Enjoying the co… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

More laundry on.  Nearing 9:30.  Three hours.  Interesting having me come in at 12:30.  In no mood to go down there, be around all those people, the crowd, that uncomfortable ro… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Thursday November 10, 2022

Jury Duty.  Finally got around to doing all the receipts piled on desk.  First thing I did.  Don’t have to be at courthouse or that admin building in Santa Rosa till 12:30.  Dreading it like you wo… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Wednesday.  Perfect drive down, not much traffic and didn’t arrive as late as yesterday.

….. Bought two new journals at the Walgreens on Front Street I think.  Two fancier ones with leather on outside.  One for me, the other for Kastle.  First real site visit today… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Sales is…

Not sales. At all. Loving conversations, people, being a friend and resource, not a robotic rep. Sales is also selling yourself. That your goals need to be of more altitude. And that they are emine… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

I go

back and forth when it comes to sales. The actual word. Why do we have to say it over and over? Fixate on it, like it’s some all-solving monosyllabic song, or incantation that takes you to some car… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Conversation with Stanley, my SE.  Weird having someone other than Ditter or William as my SE, but…. Here I am in the new story, he giving me some counsel on certain things and prospecting app… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

After a long drive down from traffic and a little tussle with this laptop, it

locking me out for some reason, then the laptop camera not working on a Teams call.  The day is interesting and testing my patience a bit. Breathing… will have list of 50 prospects done by EOD tomo… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

They teach

EVERYTHIBG When they try to sing | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Crazy drive home and what I can only say is a

storm in comparison to any perceived storm in the past few years… Somewhat of a white knuckle nerve-racking drive but even still it was relaxing listening to the music. I thought about going straig… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Not only embracing the fact that I’m new to real estate, multifamily, and prop tech, but celebrating it.  Using it to start conversations… seeking education and shared experience.  Like m… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Day 16:  Know exactly what I want done today. 

….. Been in office for about ten or fifteen minutes.  Settling in.  Aims are simple, getting in character.  Sipping rest of latte.  Conversations…. Start more.  Coupl… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Writing my own maze to solve other mazes…

11/7 Been up since before five. Had some coffee, after getting dressed, and I’m now down here in the office about ready to head to San Francisco. Some thing about me has changed, with this new sale… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Note…

Something valuable in every it. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year ago

#vinolit

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


@bottledaux.com | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year ago

Taking a night, break

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


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Last year…

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


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago