I take ONE DAY off from checking the Bitcoin price and this is what it does to me?? I need to speak to the manager.

YOU DO NOT PROCESS ALL ALCOHOLIC DRINKS IN THE SAME WAY. If you feel horrible after you drink, audit what you are drinking and find something that works for you. If you don't have a problem drinking in moderation, you do not need to quit drinking entirely. Switch to low intervention wine Switch to blanco tequila Fuck, I even feel solid after drinking a nice whiskey in comparison to beer, shitty wine or mixed drinks.

Many drinks have been debased, but quality still exists. You know it when you get it. View quoted note →

Sulfites do not give you wine headaches. Your body can process Histamines. It's the combination of them that leads to feeling flushed, congested or getting a headache within your first glass or two.

"Sulfites" give me headaches when I drink wine. I hear it all the time, but something never rang true to me. If you have a true sulfite sensitivity you would have an asthma-like reaction to drinking most wines or eating dried fruit. The key thing is: YOU WOULD KNOW TLDR at the bottom👇 My thinking on this has been that if a wine maker adds a ton of sulfites, they are probably adding a bunch of other additives. Since wine ingredient labeling is extremely opaque, you could be reacting to "anything" and without meeting your winemaker, it would be very difficult to ascertain which is giving you an issue. My advice to people negatively affected by wine has been 3-tiered: Best) Meet your winemaker and ask questions Better) Drink Low Intervention or "Natural" wines Good) Default to French/Italian/European wines generally Now, I'm back to the initial 80 IQ statement being correct. SULFITES DO NOT CAUSE WINE HEADACHES, but they do absolutely decrease your body's ability to process histamines. Histamines + High Sulfur lead to your body having an allergic response Your body produces histamines naturally as part of your immune alarm system causing blood vessels to dilate, tissues to swell, flushing and congestion. Thats the entire mechanism behind allergic reactions and why you take antihistamines to treat them. I'll go into the science of all this more in another thread TLDR Histamines exist in wine and "sulfites" decrease your body's ability to process them which leads to allergic reaction-type symptoms. This works QUICKLY. If you feel hot, congested or get a headache within the first few glasses you are having histamine issues. Quick solutions: White wine -> Lower Histamines Low Intervention wine -> Lower Sulfites DAO Enzyme supplements -> Help process histamines Allegra -> Safest Antihistamine with alcohol (last choice)

Taste matters, but is ephemeral. When it comes to quality wine, how you feel afterwards is the #1 quality indicator.

Beer makes me feel like shit compared to wine, but now I feel like I need to drink it more. Call it, Opposition Research

The 2026 grape crop looks incredible so far, but we have a long way to go before harvest in October. Here is a list of things that could go wrong: - Grasshoppers - Skunks/Racoons - Birds - Low Water Year - Early Freeze (Fall) - Hail Storm What I'm doing to combat each👇 My #1 focus: GRASSHOPPERS Grasshoppers eat the stems leading to the grape clusters damaging the plant's ability to ripen its fruit. They are difficult and it looks like a bad year for them. Well, they're actually easy if you want to go put poison out in your vineyard, but I'm not gonna do that. There USED TO BE an easy organic solution, but the only factory that made Nolo Bait just happened to *checks notes* BURN DOWN a few years ago. There are organic sprays that I may look toward, but they are more about deterrent than elimination and I question their effectiveness. For future years, I could re-fence my vineyard and get turkeys, but I won't get to that in time for this year. My plan is to keep the vineyard mowed more than usual so they have a worse habitat and spray later in the year if I need to. Skunks and Racoons These become an issue in the month before harvest as the grapes begin to ripen and they can eat large chunks of the vineyard overnight. I am armed with a .22 rifle and a live trap and as long as I am vigilent about defending my holy land, this seems to work well enough. The life trap is because we've caught all kinds of things in it and want to be smart about the death penalty. Birds can be equally as devastating as skunks/raccoons, but are not as consistent of a problem. I do not net my vines and will invest in this as soon as it becomes necessary. That said, we've only lost a large percentage of a grape crop due to birds once and that was in the strange year of 2020 when California wildfires pushed a small bird off its migratory pattern into my vineyard. We haven't seen that type of bird since and most of the other birds seem to have migrated further south for the winter by the time we harvest. My owl decoys seem to do a good enough job scaring off the remaining few. There isn't anything I can do to stave off a low water year, but pray for rain. Last winter left the lowest snowpack in my memory and the massive El Niño system points toward a hot dry summer this year. We have water rights that date to the 1800s and have never had our water shut off, but this year will be a test. The grapes have deep roots and I don't normally irrigate more than 1-2x per year, so I don't worry about this too much. (I find thats the best strategy surrounding something you have no control over) Freeze timing plays a massive roll in deciding when we harvest each Fall. There are years when a freeze ends the growing season even though we wish we could let the grapes ripen for another week or two. If that happens, I still make good wine, its just different. Nothing I can do about this. Its just the reality of farming in the highest elevation wine region in North America. A hail storm has never happened to me. That said, a friend of mine in the neighboring wine region (Grand Valley) lost their entire crop to one freak 10 minute storm last year. Needless to say, there is nothing you can do about this. THIS IS FARMING No complaints.

Imagine being locked out of buying a Bitcoin ETF until *checks notes* TUESDAY. Higher.

Just got a cold DM that said: "I've been thinking about that project we talked about a couple years ago and I really want to make it happen, but as you can see [shows new project], my year is full." Mixed messages. If you're DMing someone with an ask, especially someone who might get a lot of DMs, be direct. PSA. I'll go drink now.🍷

My guy is drinking SOLD OUT wine 💪 Big flex💪 View quoted note →

The Enhanced Games are so much more interesting. They are: "Let's see the Human Limit" Not "Let's see what people can do while using these substances but definitely not all of these😉😉"

Today I'm gonna go buy gas station pizza and pay with my credit card to celebrate (cope with) not owning 10,000 bitcoins