Cheap Wine!

We stopped by Trader Joe's for the first time in a long time on our way home from the gym, and I figured I should take a chance with one of their cheap wines. It's easy to find a good, expensive wine, but to find a wine under $10 that is decent? Not so easy.

Ended up picking up a bottle of Bear's Lair Cabernet Sauvignon. It was only $4! I was a bit hesitant, but figured for $4, it was worth a shot. Took it home, opened it up, and let it breathe just for a bit. I poured myself a little taste and I have to admit I was surprised! Not a whole lot of depth to the flavor and a little dry (lots of tannins) for some people, but for an everyday sort of wine, you could do much, much worse. It doesn't have nearly as much body as, say, a Stag's Leap cab (at $40 a bottle, it better be good), but it's hard to justify drinking a $40 bottle of wine with any sort of regularity. At 1/10 the price, I'd say the Bear's Lair was a bargain. Thumbs up :)

RROD'ed!!

Aaaaaand the X360 has gone kaput. Utterly randomly, too, I might add. It's more saddening than anything, really. I am a huge proponent of the X360 because of how great the library is and how well-done XBL is. But the hardware issues are unbelievable. I think there's maaaaybe one or two people that I know who haven't had to replace their Xboxes (that have had them for over a year). Unbelievable, really. Mine literally just gave out randomly. I was playing Bioshock for about an hour or two, turned it off to eat lunch, then went back to playing when I noticed all the texturing was wrong. Within 5-10 minutes, I got the red-checkered crash, and then games stopped working for longer than 5 minutes a run. I gave it a week rest or so, then my next try at playing resulted in the red ring. Booo-urns.