The AirFrance lady refused to check my bags all the way through insisting that I would have better luck just getting them at CDG and running to check them in again with US Air even though the airlines have agreements to check bags through. I ran. I missed the mark for baggage check by 2 minutes. They would have checked me in but the luggage was already closed. So thanks, AirFrance person.

I am now going to take today’s identical flight. We’ll see how it works this time.

The collage travelogue I’m working on is very satisfactory. I’m using any kind of free literature I find laying around while I move about the planet. It’s very fun to put things in a light that is so tainted by the sort of corporate and commercial images we’re bombarded with on a regular basis. It’s also neat to see how my attention will fall on a word or image. Ah, introspection. The best airport pastime.

I made a sister video to accompany the barrel music video. It wraps up the barrel trifecta with a couple of shout outs and an answer to one of the questions I got from the Vayniac forums.

I got written up by a Master of Wine living in the Languedoc. Juliet Bruce Jones dropped the O’bomb when talking about noteworthy vineyards in the Cabardes region of France. Thank you, Ms. Jones.

Read more here: http://www.aude-vie.com/page19/page19.html

Also, we’ve been getting some good feedback from the Vayniacs at the winelibrarytv.com forum. If you’ve never checked out Gary Vaynerchuk, do so. I won’t guarantee that you’ll love him, but you’ll have an opinion. And one of the many nice things about his wine reviews and his rabid fans is that you can access them for free unlike elitist publications that don’t even have issues in bookstores/newsstands/libraries.

I’m gonna be heading back to the Vineyard midmonth and I’ll there for a few weeks. That means I’ll finally get some video footage up for you to see. I’ll also get to see the various projects my parents have worked on in my absence. These include a finished tasting room/living area and a barrel-aging room decked out with oxoline shelving units!

I’m posting this from Blogger. I might be able to set up a blogger account that syncs up with www.ovineyards.com this way. If you’re reading this, it worked! Yay! Happy days.