We’re wine drinkers.  Some would argue we drink more wine than is strictly necessary, but I like to think of us as having a Continental perspective on the whole thing rather than an American one.  It may be delusion, but it’s a happy one, and one that put me in a unique position to help a friend of mine out when she said, “Everyone please save your wine corks for this massive project I want to do.”  I delivered unto her a substantial array of corks and then never got out of the habit of saving them.  Forever.  As it turns out, corks really build up after a while.

I decided it was time to bust out the accumulated corks of my life and “do something with them.”  I found all of the little caches of cork I had around the house and weighed the result.  “Five pounds of cork!” I declared to my friends.  “That,” said one friend in particular, “would be an awesome name for a blog about juggling a high tech career, kids, family, house, just everything.”  Because, I mean, once you finish coping with all of that, what are you left with?  Of course!

I don’t know where this is going.  At the very least, I hope it’ll be a place for me to write where I have a little more ownership of my words than I feel on Facebook.  With a little bit of luck, people will find something that they need, even if that’s just a bit of a laugh.

And incidentally, if you have any ideas on wine cork related crafts, I’m all ears.  I have about 4.5 pounds of it at my disposal.