Wine

Time Always. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

7:39.  Home from dinner with self at KC’s, veggie burger with no bun, fries, wine.  

Great day at Orin Swift.  Wrote a little in phone, will xfer later.  Now in office.  Quiet, no music.  Sent something to lawyer, and need thoughts before work week. Stressing no more.  Why.&nb… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Throne Linen

Half run school Demented, knowing the right Ear style side Invented, glowing in blithe  Talk, accuse, repeat Convenient formula for  audience Sonoma to DC, any office that Will subscribe … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Power nap for lunch and a quick peanut butter sandwich, chips.  No money spent so far today.  Good.  Save, gave self allowance for tomorrow though I don’t think I’ll touch any of it … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

In a training.  About pricing, objection handling….

Busy morning with kids, running a little late.  Not too much, but enough for some stress, angst in getting logged into work. I’m going ALL in with this new sales story.  More than knowing what… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Started to feel tired, now with coffee I’m alive again.  Sad, but true.

49 outside, too cold to run.  Rest an excuse and one I’m embracing.  Starting running week, five days straight, Saturday after kids leave.  Also need haircut, again.  If I can afford it.  Kidding. … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Prospecting but telling myself that’s NOT what I’m doing.

Should get on the phone today, make a few calls.  Why not. Latte almost done, lips like desert cracks, thirsty ground. Call with Kerri, she calling me… telling me she’s not doing the radio show any… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Don’t see contacts and just “contacts”.  Yes, log all information and contact methods, but get to know the character, their story.  Anymore, refusing to say ‘sales’.  It’s not, at le… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

12-1-22

….. 9:23, nearly forgot I had to pick up my car from the collision replace place in Santa Rosa.  Did that, got latte, and in chair. This office is a goddamn mess and it’s stressing me.&n… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Writing…

Where I am, what I’m doing, who I am. The NOW. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

California Table

Different beach, cars light Neighborhoods listening, gust Gate golden, half moon | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Back from date with ME at the Himalayan spot on the Green.

Tired when up this morning but site walk enlivened me, and anticipation of it.  Home now, working here tomorrow.  8:40 present time.  Not much writing today, but…. Here I am.  Missing the kids… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Sip of water, and not looking at the clock.  Getting sick of it.  Literally making me sick.  Each minute gone is another step to an old age.  Pessimism, that’s what time does to… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Far too fast It all goes Only more love | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Being in the office is driving me batty. 

No slander against the office and those in it.  They’re my prime learning beacons.  Just need to get out, be seen, start face-to-face conversations. Still coughing, congested, tired.  Already … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Working from home, feeling sick.  Hate this time of year, and at my age now this is what I associate with it.  Infuriating.  I don’t think ‘Holidays’, I think ‘there’s something goin… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Writing in journal all day.  Tired from night with my littlest Beat, Henry. Trouble sleeping at beginning, but later tranquil, consistent.  Keep asking self what I did wrong. Prospecting … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

The sound of some voices, idle-headed lewdster… ignored

Bathtime for kids, successful as always.  Henry objecting at first but then getting in with his sister and loving his Daddy Spa hour. Fast broken just ahead of 15.5 hours with some granola, the pea… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Work… what I want to do for the rest of my life.  What I want to be known for, remembered for.  Writing, wine, health, being a dad… business.  Creative.  A lot of things I guess… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Relaxing Sunday.  4 shots made here in house.  Think I’ve finally quit or significantly cut back on Noto and Starbucks.  Watch though tomorrow morning me head to Brooks Road first thing. Henry with… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Nearing bedtime.  They’re all slowing.

Just back from Cravin’s, their favorite and only preferred candy store. Me reheating one of Ms. Nichole’s chocolate chip cookies for Henry but total fathering fail, him getting chocolate all over h… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Back from the Green, kickball and a little football, pickle and then some other game with no definition or goal.

5:48, making dinner in a bit.  All day out, to Sonoma and back then some lunch here at the loft, break and let food rest then well over 90 minutes of football, then to the Green.  Resting, collecti… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Ages, soon greater numbers. Nothing I can do.  Be more than just fully present. Henry running in here from climbing on his sister to either say hi or just check on me, not sure. Chess last nig… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Kids up, triple espresso.  Harmony.  No disruptions or scuffles.  

Great night sleep for little Henry and I, Jack waking a little early, curiously.  Total zen in poz loft condo. Second floor now, to be expect.  Jack talking with one of his friends over that g… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

The big kids…

In a fierce chess duel tonight. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

4:17

Settled in with kids.  Trip to sports store for some wishes of theirs, then play at the park, grocery shopping and lunch pickup, more playing outside now hanging in loft, relax.   Tired, feel like … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Just

Clock append slow Watch Or don’t Drive to there Quicker leaf Wind Rain press She knows it Truth avoid Tok over tick Stop and sit Coffee copied Lots explained angle Skies Events boast dimes More pla… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Wrote a poem and I know I need to write more, others, capturing everything I’m going through, or seeing not just going through.  Work, the commute, how dark it is in the morning.  The kid… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Street Luminous Fall

It’s talking to me, repeatedly Some message meant only for me Emirate talk, purpose and place Kiln emotions, kiss and walk Verses to me and the drive Sonoma vineyard concert Quiet cordon, leaves wi… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

11/25/22

Back at loft, latte and zen. Another idea for startup, connected to present prop tech story, no elaboration now.  Too slow still, caffeine needs to do its job.  Leaving to get kids soon. A little o… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

In office.  Still sniffling and with a little congestion, not sure that’s what you’d call it but either way I’m fine and functioning and about to dive into receipts and budget and some anchor … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Anyway… where is this, my story, my activity and sales story with the prop tech co, going?  I don’t know.  And I love that I don’t.  Just save, keep the winery and tasting room as a symbol, a sough… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Caught my thinking, then thinking more, then I stopped.

That’s the obstructor, obviously.   Shower then laundry, then walk to Noto, where I am now, waiting for a quad shot latte, needed after a night of on and off sleep. Heading to parents’ around 3 or … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Think it’s kind of silly we have to work today, but…. It is what it is, as people say.   Back at the loft, working in kitchen.  Too cold in the office.  Triple espresso made here like yes… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Back in the Nook Office.  Thinking of City Lights Books, driving home.  

I always seem to stop at that light.  What is it, Columbus and Broadway?  Either way, I think of my son, Jack… how his mother sold me on that name.  I was opposed to the name Jack at first, foolish… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Little Kerouac….

Always making me smile. ❤️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

11/22/22

Not much written yesterday, nothing posted. Soul injured, but I’m writing way through and out of it. The kids are watching, and reading. Teaching them through me teaching me. Yesterday site walk te… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

And Mud Talk

Get it out quick, fire No need to think or make sense Delusion glimmer | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

5:31 ready to leave, I think.   

Receipts and notebooks, journals in bag.  Sipping espresso before Starbucks.  Yes, I’m going to get a latte.  Mentally not ready for commute and being in the city, certainly not driving in it.  Cou… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

The obvious is not obvious

At all There is more to acknowledge Appreciate See and feel, study We wish for so much when the want doesn’t need to be wanted It’s here, present, in front of you. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

#vinolit

In every step and syllable. Postmodern promise….. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

11/20/22 – 8:12

Woke feeling fearless, grateful.  Everything 2023 will speak. Heading out the door to St. Helena, the new tasting room story.  People probably in town for Thanksgiving so could be busy.&n… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

……..

3:48 Up from a 90 minute nap, almost 90 minutes, put on some laundry, make espresso, come down to office to collect. From earlier, running errands and what not, two valuable pieces of perception. 1… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

My son and best friend…. Little Kerouac. Jack Patrick Madigan…. Love him and learn so much from his brilliance and curiosity. Grateful. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Do two things right now….   Take some of Henry’s toys upstairs to Emma’s room, their hangar.  I’m sure this reads like someone with OCD, I’m sure.  If so let me know…  Always do… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Henry making me take him upstairs to get a toy car

and one of those PJ Make figures from his sister’s room, where the toys are.  We come back down so he can play with the car pushing it forcefully so it dashes across most of the loft floor.  He los… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Off a quick call with a friend, Lexi, asking me to do a favor for her get a bottle of olive oil from Davis Family.  Told her I was planning on going tasting today anyway and this gives me the … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago

Saturday.  Finally.  Shouldn’t say that, and like that, I know.  

All days are stories and have something for me. Henry asking for help with his show, always pressing a button nd exiting out of it and needing me to find what he was watching and where.  Break… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 years ago