This Wino Wednesday post was inspired by my new house pour….Yellow Tail Shiraz-Cabernet. So delicious. So inexpensive. So worth my time. So worth sharing. (Photo is courtesy of the Yellow Tail website.)

I had a lovely evening drinking wine and hanging out with a friend (who, by the way, brought me dinner). We enjoyed a few glasses of wine. And by few, I mean heavy handed pours of my house wine. My friend and I chatted. We laughed. Friend left my house.

Then the worst thing EVER happened.

I went upstairs to wash my face. I set my phone  on the bathroom counter. Hell, I’m never more than two feet away from it. I reached over to grab it. It slipped out of my hands. It fell on my cushy bathroom rug.

It shattered.

And left me with this face…

Suddenly I hate my hands for being slippery. I hate my iPhone for being fragile. I hate my bathroom rug for not being made of feathers. I hate my iPhone cover for not protecting it. I hate my iPhone for leaving glass shards in my hand. I hate drinking for causing clumsiness.

I hate…wait, I don’t hate anything!

Shit happens. (Although I still think the sad look in the photo is justified.)

Now I just wonder what I did before I had this piece of equipment. Hell, it’s only been in my life for a few years but it feels like I couldn’t live without it. Is there anything you have that you can’t imagine surviving without (besides other human beings)?

P.S. For those who care, I have an appointment at the Apple store to get  a replacement at 10:10 am today. Twelve hours is long enough for me to be without this appendage.

Wino Wednesday…this weekly feature is designed to share my wine alcohol related stories.

One of my passions in life is socializing. I found the perfect group to share that passion with. Unfortunately I only relate to half of what they do.  Social Media Club of Salt Lake City (#SMCSLC)’s mission is to become the voice of social media technology — whether it be for business or personal use — in the Salt Lake area. With my attention span, I only saw the word “social” and joined. I don’t do the media part as well.

I attended my second #SMCSLC event last night and am still smiling. The information was helpful, useful, and entertaining. I could recap the evening covering the open mic topics and reviewing new tips and tidbits shared. But that’s not me.

The real stuff to report is from the “social” standpoint.

• In real life: This group is a great way to meet people you’ve become acquainted with online. It’s fun to meet people in real life. Even better to do it after you gotten to know them online first. We even started with a smaller group gathering at the pub next door before the event!

• Signage: Not only do you get a name tag, but you can also get a reserved butt sign if you talk to the right people. I was quick to get my tags on. Other tag is located near my other best asset.

• Electronic Devices: The room is filled with iPhones (I’m sure there were other technical gadgets present but those are invisible to me). Everyone has one and uses it. It is a proven fact (source unknown/made up) that activity with an iPhone is directly correlated with interest in the program.  Therefore the higher the iPhone distractions, the higher the interest in the event. After looking around the crowd, the event was a huge success!

• Crowd: They (geeks) come in all different forms. Men, women, tall, short, quiet, chatty, on Twitter.com (with the exception of the two that don’t – gasp!). No surprise that the room is filled with geeks. Some take it a step further and have their laptops out. Generally geeks are shy and hide behind their computer. This group condones this behavior and in fact, encourages it. They are also like a group of boy scouts…always prepared! My iPhone battery was running low and it took two seconds to find an attendee who had a power supply I could borrow. Bam. You ask. You receive. At least in this crowd. 
• Food: They had it. Cookies, pickles, olives, meatball, bread, sodas, water, etc. But let me tell you…three meatballs (off of someone else’s plate) DOES NOT constitute a proper dinner. 
• Prizes: WooHoo! Who doesn’t love to win? If you raised your hand, you’re lying.  And you’re weird. Which reminds me…I WON! Well technically my waxer won since I used our appointment card for the drawing. (I forgot to bring my own business cards.) But she wasn’t there and I’m not telling her. My prize is for one microdermabrasion treatment compliments of Mountain Medical Vein Center. True testimonial: a #SMCSLC attendee (the cutie holding the mic) looks at least 150 years younger because of the treatments she received at the center last week.

It is clear.   The night was a complete success. I met new friends and saw old ones, I won a prize, my ass was reserved, I ate meatballs & I charged my iPhone. Now you should understand why I’m still smiling.