Should've stayed in bed.

Weird, weird day. Kiri drives me in, and Gio and Victor are surprised to see me. Seems that Victor's truck has been loaded with both his and my route. They assumed I was off. I remembered that this was supposed to be my appointment for the PET scan, but was told that Giorgio already had the day off. We all assumed that meant I was driving West Bay. The Giorgio walked in. He's off next Thursday/Friday.

Best guess is that a miscommunication caused the night crew to double load the truck. since my route only had two stops, they sent it out with Victor. I stayed in the warehouse to do some assembly work. Until about 0800, when i was sent to the 7th St. Warehouse for an order going to Fremont. Big order. Five pallets, each weighing about 3,300lbs (about 1,500kg). Needless to say, it took two trips.

I'd slept terribly last night, and wasn't feeling at all well, so I begged off and called Kiri to come get. I work enough bloody overtime to justify an early exit once in a while.

Wine notes.

Fascinating article in today's SFGate about "orange wines", white wines that are allowed to bathe in contact with the skins and seeds for a time before fermentation. This results in a wine that has the acidity of a white with some of the tannic notes of a good red. Need to track down a few bottles.

Evidently the next big wine for Thanksgiving dinners is Champagne, especially Rosé Champagne. Intriguing. But I think we'll stick with Riesling and/or Pinot Noir. Maybe Shiraz.

My Wineaux moment of the day. One of the guys I work with is also a big vino fan, and we were discussing how to deal with heavily tannic wines and the merits of ordering the house wine when at a restaurant. This was in between my two trips to this one site. When I got back, I apologized to the materials guy, and explained the delay.

He was a wine fiend too. Construction sites, hotbeds of viticulture mavens!

Because I've been bad.

There is no such thing as a "quick game of Civilization IV."
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