…and we’re back. The post schedule back in full swing starting now.

I’ve got lots of tasting notes to organize and put up, so I’m going to ask you to do a few things in the next couple months as payment on all this free knowledge. For now, please pick one of the challenges below and email me with your results:

1. Donate your tips - For one night, pick a time and a table. Donate your tips for the rest of the night from that table to America’s Second Harvest.

2. Donate your cupboard - You know you’re never going to use that can of pinto or navy beans. Clean out your cubbards and take the non-perishables to your local food bank. Second Harvest’s FOOD BANK locator

3. Donate of asshole customers - There are a million ways to get back at a customer without spitting in their food. Tell that loud-mouth, cocksure Republican that only tipped you 14%, “Thank you very much sir, I’m donating all of my tips tonight to Jimmy Carter’s Habitat for Humanity, and I appreciate your contribution.” Gets them every time.

4. Donate your time - Work a shift in a food bank, helping mothers pick out food for their kids. If you’re in the restaurant industry, you’d be surprised how helpful you can be, the ideas you can offer, and the nutritional knowldege you have just from being around food. (see locator above)

5. Donate your latte - For one week, make coffee at home. Multiply the price of your daily coffee drink, plus tip, by 5 and donate to America’s Second Harvest. I drink a double tall latte, that’s ($2.75 + 1.00)*5 = $18.75. That can feed a family of four for 5 days.

And that will be all. For now.

I know you’ve all been complaining about the lack of posts. And I love to vent about the wine business, but I’ve been busy. So if I’m to conitue writing this blog FOR FREE, you’re going to help me help other people and stick it to the man. Quid pro quo, my miscreants. If you have enough money to count wine as an interest or hobby, you’ve got the dough to share.

That’s my ultimatum. If you’re not donating or voting or subverting, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s blog no more.