Friday, September 28, 2007

Deflowering The Virgin Mary

Good morning funbags. How are you all? I am fine. Thanks for asking. I am on this upward trend of getting healthy. One thing positive about getting sick, is that there would be nothing better or special about today except for the fact that I am healthier because I was sick not to long ago. So it makes this day more joyous then it otherwise would be. And listening to fucking crazy Czechaslovakian Death Metal definitely adds to my mood. So as I told yoo all. I was going to wineries yesterday. So we had to meet up at my work. I get there early. I am always early. So I bring Luigi in a coffee. Haha. He was sooo happy. He works hard at two jobs so the boy is often tired. He grabbed my neck and kissed my forehead ans aid "I could stick my dick in your ass right now." Haha. The boy always knows how to get me out of my morning haze with a good laugh. People were late for coming to meet us there. So I hung out with him in the smoking section for a while. Finally we were ready to hit the road. I was sitting in the back with my dear friend Chiaki.

She was the one who trained me and works at Florence's other store. We had hit it off when I was in training and had a lot of intense conversations. So it was similar here. I still can't believe she is 37. She really is gorgeous. When I met her I had asked her what University she was going too. Because I always assume all Asians are in school. They are smarter then us for some reason. I always assume that is the one. Anyways. We go to Jackson-Triggs winery first. It was amazing. Very knowledgeable tour guide. I saw the fermentation process. The crushing and destemming machines. The huge stainless steel vats. And the vineyards of course. They had these loud booming sounds in the distance. It is these air things that scare off birds from eating the grapes. Another intelligent thing they do. They plant a rose bush at the end of every row. Because disease that vines are susceptible too, roses will exhibit signs of first and get sick quicker so they can catch it before it wipes out a whole row or even a crop. Quite ingenius. We tasted soooooo many different wines.

I didn't realize there was so much Delaine we didn't carry. That is the highest end Jackson-Triggs. But it isn't that just we don't carry it. These are wines only available at the wineries. We were all a litt tipsy from there. I had a Syrah. I had never even heard of a wine called that before. But it was from Delaine. Jesus was it to die for. Had a beautiful Gewurtztramminer. I think we had a White Meritage. A copper labelled Meritage. It is about 60% Merlot. 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. 25% Cabernet Franc. An excellent blend. All the wines were VQA as well (Vintners Quality Alliance) Look it up if you don't know. We tried a whole bunch of other shit as well. Haha. It was funny how buzzed we all were. No one spit. Not even my Manager. Haha. And she was driving. So we were laughing uproariously. My and a bunch of women wayyyy older then me. the closest female there to my age was Chiaki at 37. Everyone else was in there sixties. Me and five women. Joy huh. Anyways. We went to Inniskillin afterwards. Wine isn't produced there.

But we saw some vineyards and shit and a destemmer and such. And we saw some really old vintages that were worth about 500-1000 bucks a bottle. They keep bottles from every year since there first. 1974. They won best icewine in the world in 1989. They still have bottles. You will pay over a thousand for it. Haha. I asked if we could taste it. The answer was of course no. I learned a lot about stem ware and the importance of the individual designs for individual wines. I will give you an excellent example. Icewine stemware is very thin. Small circumference of the rim and the bowl is kind of shaped like a pinecone. Now on your tongue, the taste buds at the front are a lot more receptive to sweetness. They have less acids and everything to tone it down. Now since icewine is already incredibly sweet. You want it to hit the back of your tongue has more acids and bitter tastebuds. It makes it much more balanced and smooth. So the right stemware. The one I just described to you. Because the rim is thin and hits the edge of your nose, it forces you to tilt your head back making the icewine hit the back of your tongue and throat making you get the proper experience from drinking icewine.

Now that I know this. I am going to shop for an extensive stemware set. We drank an over 100 dollar bottle of icewine. She put it in the proper stemware and a normal wine glass. there was a huge difference. Going to wineries is an amazing experience and I reccomend it to you all. You will have to pay for it. Vincor which sells their wine gets tours for free. Also regular tour people only get three tastings and then they pay for each one after that. We got as many as we wanted. VIP treatment. We also were allowed in parts of the processing areas that other people weren't allowed in. It was quite awesome. But we tried a shitload of amazing wines at Inniskillin as well. Then after that we were all quite quite buzzing. Haha. We had brought food for a picnic. So we went into some park and sat down to eat and I got into qa debate with a bunch of old ladies. Basically logic versus emotion. All the old bags were arguing emotions side of course. They kept brushing me off for being young and say they disregarded what I said because of it. It made me pretty angry and I told them all to go fuck off.

Haha. I was really frusterated. When someone just disregards what you say because of your age it is maddening. Or just snippy little comments like "what. did you read that in a book?" And then scoff at me! As if reading is a pointless stupid activity! They were all tipsy too remember. At one point my Manager finally stood up for me when she saw that I actually was offended and she realized that they were somewhat being bitches. I don't care to recount the debate at all. Too time consuming. We laughed about it on the ride home. Haha. We were laughing how we are such a tight knit group that Trevor could tell them all including his Manager to fuck off and there isn't some shocked reaction like "well I never!" Haha. I am actually surprised how close employers and employees can get. While typing this I have two different people call me asking me to donate money to help cure cancer. My reply is the same to each one. You guys can't even cure the common cold.

I don't have faith that my money is going towards positive research. Not some pharmaceutical company trying to manufacture a pill that slows it down a bit to keep you alive a bit longer so you can take there pills longer making you inevitably a big money maker. No one wins from you being cured except for you. But they definitely win from you being alive with your sickness longer. Which to me is a shitty quality of life. If I get cancer. Once I start feeling it everyday. Seriously. Kill me. Don't be experimenting with a bunch of pills on me. I don't want to line those fucks pockets. I am no longer going to Darkrave. It is Thanksgiving weekend that weekend. I realized that when I noticed on my work schedule that we are closed Monday. So I work Saturday morning and then have Sunday and Monday off. I had booked Sunday off as a recovery day. And monday we are closed. Two days off in a row I mine as well go see the family. So on Saturday I am bringing Jaime to my family dinner. It will be a big crew. Then Sunday I am going to her family dinner.

I am going to be a fat fuck when I get back and then I am going to have to come back and do the load. This will be the first time in many years I have been home for Thanksgiving I think. But hey. Who needs a good reason to go get free turkey dinner? Not me. I miss my Brother and Mother a lot as well. And of course Jaime. My little brothers and sisters as well. I haven't seen my brother in a while. I am pretty pumped to see him. Anyways I think I am typing for yet another day. My wrist is getting sore. Carpel tunnel is starting to affect me I believe. My push-ups hurt to do because of my wrists now. I just need to masturbate more. Have a lovely day everyone. Cheers!

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