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Last night I watched The Departed. A great movie!

The Departed is an brilliant police informant/mafia film with outstanding acting by Jack Nicholson, Matt Daemon and even Leonardo di Caprio.

The dialogs are great. Favorite quote: "You know past days, situations like this I'd kill everybody, everybody who works for me". Another one I liked: "I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy". There's a remarkable amount of swearing throughout the movie.

Tonight I attended a Wine 101 class at A Southern Season in Chapel Hill. It was really enjoyable.

The wine buyer of A Southern Season, Jay Murrie, introduced the group of about 20 people to six different wines, three whites and three reds and explained some of the differences about the various grape types and wine regions. I don't know a great deal about wines and this was a very nice introduction.

Somewhat unusual post-Sideways, I don't really care for Pinot Noir too much (or perhaps I haven't found the right one yet). A very pleasant surprise was the 2006 Merkelbach Urziger Wurzgaten Riesling Spatlese, a German sweet wine. I didn't think I would like it at all: a sweet, white wine but it was quite good.

I took a cab to the store because I wasn't sure how much drinking would be involved. I'm happy I did -- those six glasses were well over my driving limit.

Today I went to the Festival for the Eno River in Durham.

It's a 3-day music festival to raise money for conservation of the Eno River. I parked at the Durham stadium and a bus took me to the festival site. I walked around alone for a while and then met up with Mike.

There were a lot of different bands from the Carolinas and surrounding states. It was a very warm day, and it was great to sit in the shadow and listen to good music. I liked the performances by
Nina Violet and The Grandsons quite a lot.

Sunday I tried a new, excellent running trail.

It turns out Duke University has a golf course fairly close to our home with a running trail around the golf terrain. Esteban and Belen had mentioned it last week -- thanks a lot!

It's a great 2.5 mile long nature trail with distance markers and a public water fountains. It's a little over a mile from our home so all together I ran about 5 miles on Sunday. This was a bit more than I should have done and it took me 2 days to recover.

I hope that I feel good enough to go for a shorter run in the morning. It's Fourth of July tomorrow so a day off, and before all the festivities start I hope to try out my new running shoes.