{"id":520,"date":"2015-03-17T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:00:16","slug":"back-in-the-land-of-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Back In the Land of the Living"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That’s the one that got me, officer. Arrest him!\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been over a month since I posted to this blog. In social media terms, I might as well have left on a voyage for the new world and been captured by Barbary pirates and written off for lost, mourned only by creditors and a disgruntled cat, forgotten by time and tide.<\/p>\n

I was originally taking a two-week break to go to Mexico, in order to soak up some Vitamin D (aka, ‘lay in the sun’) and local culture (aka ‘Tequila’). I did that and had some fun, but felt a little off the second week of the trip and by the time I got home, I had a cold.<\/p>\n

Only no, it was a case of the H3N2 influenza. In popular culture a lot of folks equate a bad cold with ‘the flu’–I’ve probably been guilty of that myself. But the truth is this: if you can get out of bed, you don’t have the flu. Between a fever that ran over 102F for the better part of a week and the constant feeling that I needed a good solid night of sleep every time I woke up, I was off my feet for a week, recovering for two more and (oh the horror!) I completely lost my sense of smell and taste for nearly a month!<\/p>\n

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All the happy bottles!\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happily, that’s all behind me now, so I can get back in the saddle. I’m going to be tasting my Master Vintner series wines<\/a>! They’re still very young\u00a0but will have calmed down from bottle shock and be showing their true character.<\/p>\n

I’m also hard at work on new projects with my friends at Northern Brewer<\/a>, so I better get crackin’, and let the disgruntled cat and the Barbary Pirates know that I’m back amongst the living.<\/p>\n

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It’s been over a month since I posted to this blog. In social media terms, I might as well have left on a voyage for the new world and been captured by Barbary pirates and written off for lost, mourned only by creditors and a disgruntled cat, forgotten by time and tide. I was originally … <\/p>\n

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