Writing

I wish I had more skills as a writer. I’ve thought about being able to write about my experiences more interestingly and eloquently. Forlaetan seems to be able to do this without any effort. Of course, she also seems to have more interesting stories to tell than I have. My interesting event for the day:

I saw the season finale of Buffy tonight. I thought it was very well done and it even had aspects of my own dreams represented. After Buffy, I stuck around for the season finale of Angel. That program actually interested me tonight.

Hello Kitty?

Does anyone want a kitty? Alissa’s roommate Linda is allergic to Alissa’s cat Tyler. Tyler has is about eight years old and has been neutered. He’s an orange-beige long-haired cat, maybe part Persian. He likes paper bags, plastic bags and boxes. Here’s a cute picture of him.

Tyler

Email Frustration

They’re upgrading our Exchange Server at work. Apparently who ever is doing the work misread the invoice. He thought it said “breaking” instead of “upgrading.” So we have no e-mail and most of our business at a very crucial time (with an event coming up next weekend) has screamed to silence.

Age Frustration

I’m leaving for Florida on Thursday morning, and I wanted to rent a car in advance. I went to Alamo, and they charged me $20 extra per day because I’m 24 and not 25 or older. The only thing is, most places won’t even rent to people under 25 years of age. I’m sure they wouldn’t think twice to renting a car to a 90-year old that hasn’t had a road test in seventy-five years.

Long Day

Today started out in the morning. I woke up at Alissa’s and drove to work. However, when I was driving, I felt the way I did this past summer. I felt as if I had been driving since eleven o’clock p.m. and it now was eleven o’clock a.m. I felt as if I was driving all night with no more than a few stops. I only had to do that two or three times this past summer while I was [DELETED].

I got to work and the day went by very quickly since there was so much to do. My boss is out of the office and in the hospital with some sort of infection. Basically this means double the work for me. Plus we had that wine tasting event for which I left work at 4:30.

The wine tasting event turned out to be pretty cool. I was sort of not looking forward to it initially because it was an event our Board of Directors put together and then just expected the office staff to work and serve wine without knowing anything about the wine. Usually when you go to these things, they have a wine conniseur to pour and talk about the wines. I ain’t no wine conniseur (and neither is anyone else in the office).

But we got there, and there were some people there to help us out with the pouring of the wine, so it turned out to be not bad at all. I did get to taste some nice drinks but of course I don’t remember what any of them were. I did take home one bottle of a Merlot. It wasn’t my favorite, but once the event was over, it was one of the only bottles left.

I am much tired now… so good night.

Should Be Interesting

I’m about ready to head on over to the wine tasting event being hosted by our Board of Directors. Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m not actually going to get to taste any of the wine — the Board has gotten the office staff (well, some of us, anyway) to be the servers. Usually this type of job is reserved for people who actually know something about wines. I don’t. None of us do. It’s going to be a little entertaining tonight.

Taster: Sniffs the cork, takes a sip
Taster: So what kind of wine is this?
Me: Looks at the glass, holds it up to the light
Me: Ahh… red.