Back From Vacation (aka What is the deal with this blog?)

I have been back from vacation for two days now, and my apartment is still a disaster. Completely for lack of trying. I'm exhausted. The only thing I was able to do is clean the cat box. Because damn. Other than that one accomplishment, I am still walking around in a fog, trying to figure out what the real world is about. I spent the last week at Burning Man. First time. More on that later.

I did just launch right in without introducing myself, or really explaining what I am going to be posting about, and arguably most importantly, what your expectations should be of me.

I'm not going to post regularly. Just whenever I feel like it. But I will try to at least be weekly. However due to intermittent vacations, there may or may not be periods of nothing. And I may or may not let you know in advance. I'm sure there's some joke about vacation or serial killer that I could make here, but I'm tired, and are serial killer jokes really that funny? Oh, I'm sure you'll be religiously browsing by daily, eager for new content only to be greeted by the same stale, rotting, moldy post, and your hard drive will start to stink like day-over broccoli every time you swing by, due to someone having forgotten to refresh the blog, and write out a fresh bouquet of whatever-the-crap this is.

I will try to keep to wine-related topics, however I am a gold-medal digressor. I try to be conservative when it comes to my personal life, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. And with all that is going on in my life right now, I'm bound to turn to you, oh blogosphere, to rant, or cry, or just bitch. Cause sometimes, you gotta.

So here's a bit about me: I am a gay man, and I'm married, bitches. It is a civil marriage, not sacramental--we are both atheist. We married in 2008 when it was legal for all couples in the US to marry equally. I'm not going to launch in to politics--indeed will try to keep the subject away entirely because wine and politics don't mix--but I will just say, I feel you either believe in equality or you don't. But we can disagree. If you look past the parts of my life you disagree with with, I'll agree to look past that ugly-ass sweater you insist on wearing. You know the one. Tragic.

My husband is a wonderful, understanding, saint of a man, who puts up with my insanity. He is amazingly patient, and just a wonderful, caring person. I also compose music. I also have a day job at Universal (corporate--not the theme park, so don't hit me up for tickets). I am trying to make music my full time job, as I have a degree in oboe performance, and I love everything about music. I also like working out and I do my best to live a healthy life. But I also like drinking alcohol, and in particular, wine. And I love cheese, carbs and fat. In fact if there is some kind of melted fat into which carbs can be dipped, I'm there.

So I'm not a crazy health nut, just reasonable. And I try to not preach. Everyone has to do what they think is best for the reasons they feel are most important. I like to be healthy, to sweat, and to eat a lot of high-calorie foods in large quantities. If I didn't work out, I'd be like those people who have to have walls taken out of their house so they can go shopping for a mu mu.

So what did we learn? Me: post when I want, gay, musician, workout, like real food and wine drinky drinky. You: still here for some reason, ugly sweater, reader I like, also wine drinky?

Good. I think we understand each other.