Daily Archives: January 6, 2011

Keeping up with Tom Clancy games

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When it gets Christmas time and I start thinking about what to get my friends and family, I normally have a really good idea of what to get for my husband and my son. I can always count on buying my husband the newest crime thriller and for my son the newest kind of video game where the player is on some secret mission from the government or whatever and has to go and shoot up a bunch of people.

So I’ve been doing my research early for what I’m going to specifically get thin within these parameters. When I was looking up stuff for both of those with my HughesNet I got this great idea that it would be really easy to just buy them stuff that’s from Tom Clancy.

It seems like every time I turn around there’s a new book out by writer Tom Clancy and that they’re making a video game out of one of his books or a sequel to a video game that was based on one of his books. So I’m going to get my husband and son each one of those.

Choosing the Best Wine Glasses for Your Fine Wines

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If you regularly entertain at home, it is advisable to invest on good dining ware. If you like to entertain friends over and love to talk over dinner and enjoy some wine afterwards, you would also need to invest on wine glasses.

You can get fine wines from Sokolin.com. It is wise to always have a pair of white and red wine in your wine cabinet or pantry, just in case your guests would have varying tastes. Wines also make a great gift idea! If you know someone who would love to get rare wine or a premier wine label, you can also get it from Sokolin.com.

A good rule of thumb to go by is to serve red wine in larger glasses, while champagne works better in more slender glasses.

Here is what I have learned, you serve the following wine in the corresponding wine glasses:
• Bold red wines – serve in goblet wine glasses
• Young or light white – serve in narrow mouthed glass
• Wood aged white wines – serve in slightly wider mouthed glass, but still narrow
• White wine – serve in tall stemmed hock glasses
• Champagne – serve in tall slender tulip glass