In My Head

Hubby and I predicted that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button would win for best costume design.

When The Dutchess won, I said “Oh, yeah.  It’s hard to beat a period piece in costumes.”

He said “Unless it’s a period piece about a nudist beach”……

The recent stimulus package might have divided Congress, but a California winery has devised a bailout plan we can all get behind: a wine that gets cheaper as the market goes down.

Made by San Francisco-based Crushpad, the 2007 Bailout Napa Valley Cabernet is a blend of grapes from some of Napa’s most storied vineyards.  Here’s how the Bailout plan works:

1. You preorder the wine for $39 per bottle. Crushpad will record the closing value of the Dow Industrial Average on your purchase date.

2. For every 100 points the Dow drops from the purchase date, Crushpad takes $2 off the final price of each bottle (which can go as low as $9 per bottle). As of this writing, the lowest price has been $17.34.

3. The final price will be settled on August 14, 2009, and you’ll be reimbursed for the difference (consider it a “stimulus check”). Your wine will then be bottled and shipped.

Even if (by some miracle) the market should rebound this summer, you won’t have to pay more than $39. Plus you’ll have a great excuse for popping the cork right away.

Bailout Wine
Dude Where’s My 401K?

Image credit: Sean McCabe

Great article in The Atlantic this month.  Though it is long, it was very interesting in looking at the history of past economic crises and what it took to break out of them and predicts what areas of the country and what factors about those areas are going to make it easier for them to survive and flourish  after this current upheaval.  For those of you in transition of some sort, wondering where and how to make this time eventually work for you, this article may have some good insights.

My dog, 13-yrs old, who spends most of her days & nights sleeping, has taken to a new activity.  She’ll get up and walk out to the hallway or into one of the rooms and just stand there staring blankly inot space.  As if she’s not sure why she walked over there.

The vet says she’s very healthy for a dog her age.  I just don’t know.