The place looks gorgeous – maybe a little like central Victoria where my mother lives, with its wineries and orchards.

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Unplugging is hard, but I do make time away from the computer every day, for at least a little while. When I spend more than just a few hours away, sometimes I miss it incredibly and can’t wait to get back. But lately I’ve enjoyed being out in the “real world” even more and say to myself I need to do more things out of the house.

However, there is an 8 day trip to the East coast coming up, and I’m seriously thinking of purchasing a lap top, b/c I don’t think I’ll survive by using the hotel lobby’s computer (if there even is one) for checking on email and my blog! Doubt I’ll take the plunge, but this is the first time I’ve seriously contemplated getting one. After all, we are blogoholics!

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@ Friar: Wow. Well, as you said, you can’t miss something that you never had.

My sense of taste is probably not that great. Strong flavors (like tomato-ey things, like spaghetti/lasangna, BBQ sauce), I taste well. But a lot of the subtle flavours of herbs and spices are probalby lost on me…like oregano, basil, garlic, etc. Most vegetables are quite bland to me. All spices taste like pepper.

My Sister in Law made me a stir fry once, that she assured me was PUNGENT with Garlic, and to me, it was just salty-bland. (I think she was gonna clobber me).

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In this area, both Virginia and Maryland have wine industries and I’ve been to a tasting in each state. I really liked the raspberry wine I had in Maryland.

I’m not an Internet addict, but I made sure that my Palm and cell phone don’t have Internet access, and if I’ve been on the computer all day at work, I don’t turn on the computer at home, unless I need to blog. I can usually read blogs from work in the morning if it’s slow. Sometimes I have a couple of hours or an evening of no computer, no TV. It’s so peaceful (unless the neighbors get noisy).

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@ Carla: I haven’t seen the movie, but I looked it up at imdb.com and it says “Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California’s wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.”

@ Zandria: I agree! Attitude is really important.

@ Andre: I really don’t see how it’s possible to write online and avoid the internet. That’s why I’m aiming for once a week.

@ Friar: You know that my name is Vered, right? (just one D). The second D is for my last name…

Back to the point: if you can’t smell, how come you can still taste? I thought the two senses were connected so that if you can’t smell, you can’t taste (which sometimes happens when you have a cold).