Wine Stains
Hippocrates is a man after a woman’ heart. He recommends red wine as a diuretic, to purge fever, disinfect wounds, and as a great source for vitamins.
Subsequently I drink a glass of Merlot before I go to bed. I love the wine’s deep burgundy color, though I need to be careful where I sip because I have beige carpet running throughout my house. Wine stains are a bitch to clean-up, which is why I use burgundy throw rugs as an accent color. I am also very careful not to place the glass next to my computer. Particularly the week before I go to my MFAW residency at Goddard College in Vermont. A glass of Merlot can be really expensive. The last time I did this, one of my three cats knocked the glass over. I thought my computer had a virus. Hippocrates was wrong, wine does not purge a computer’s fever. Fortunately, the Geek Squad came to my rescue.
“There’s the culprit,” my personal Geek said after he had dismantled the machine and pointed to the red stains and still wet puddles. He sniffed, and sniffed again, “Merlot -- RayLen 2007 – a fruity red Carolinius wine. Notice how the wine gels on the keys?”
I am impressed – he knows good wine and speaks the language of computers. Until he hands me the bill. I cried. Take my advice, never, ever set a wine glass down by your laptop. I had to take my daughter Kristen’s laptop with me to Goddard College, and it did have viruses. She had surfed through You Tube, among other web sites and downloaded LimeWire – the scourge of parents. (sigh) My 277 page book disappeared and when it re-appeared, the words looked to be in Greek, or was it Geek?
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