Goal 86: Santa Fe Wine Festival

This is a bit outdated by now, but I've got some catching up to do, alright?

On July 3rd and 4th, the Santa Fe Wine Festival was up and running. I had never been to a true wine festival that wasn't Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival, and for a peasy little price of $13.00 for entrance and wine glass, I thought it a great way to spend the day.

Goal 86: Refine my wine tasting palette

At the wine festival we were given the wine glasses, and simply went from booth to booth, getting samples and tastes of wine from around New Mexico. We tasted lots of excellent wines, from dry sparkling whites to dark chocolaty desert reds. Whit decided she liked dry wines much more, while I always knew I was a fan of the wetter wines.

Also while at the wine festival, we sampled some foods, and even got a free back rub with some nice natural rubs. I bought some goat milk feta cheese in oil, that was pungent, salty, and delicious.

Summer Starter

The USA is a new and old place now. It's an old place with new perspectives.

The summer is going to be much more than disappointing, that is to say that it will be excellent. I'm only going to outline my top four plans now since I'm moderately unmotivated to write right now. I'll present it in list form.

1. Work and the Future

I'm working at SNL this summer. It's a good job, and I'm having a lot of fun with it so far. It's super normal hours make it possible for me to have a life outside of work too. I won't be posting much on work though since I'm fairly certain I'm not supposed to. For the future, I'll be preparing for the GRE and checking out grad schools.

2. Weekly creations

I'll be creating things every week. Whether it be graphically designed, crafted, or begotten, I'll have something posted up here by Sunday morning every week to display. I'm not saying it'll be good stuff, but hopefully it'll be neat. Here are the first two weeks':

Week Ending 6/28: Pink Frogger

Made for a photoshop contest.

Week ending 7/3: Pencil Holder

I wasn't given a pencil holder at work, so I had to make one out of my tape dispenser box.

3. (Re)Designs

I'm planning on redesigning my website, ScholarDesign.com, and making some changes to this blog. I'll also be doing some designs for various clients, including myself, if that counts. Finally, I want to print and bring some of my digital work into the realm of Newtonian physics.

4. Exploring New Mexico

After exploring the United States and Europe, I figured I should take a little time to look deeper into what The Land of Enchantment has to offer. This is an interesting task because I've already seen much of New Mexico through the Boy Scouts, yet I can hardly place any of my camping trips on a map.

That's that. Hopefully you'll look forward to it (all one of you).