Red Wine Headache

Right after work on Thursday we crammed six people into the car and headed over to City Park for the annual Red, White and Blues wine-tasting. When we walked into the jam-packed room one of our group bought each of us a plastic wine glass with three little colored LEDs in the base. Very classy, eh? Anyway, since there were literally hundreds of wines to taste, it was obvious that I'd need a strategy. I decided early on that I'd skip the long lines at the food tables and stick to the cheap merlot wines. With the eight-page list in hand, I started going from table to table, carefully marking down each wine I tasted. Somewhere along the way, around the fifth or sixth wine (no, absolutely no way I'm spitting out the wine!) my "scientific method" began to deteriorate, though. I do remember that the $7.99 Bogle Merlot, $9.99 Cycles Gladiator Merlot and $15.99 Barnard Griffin Merlot were pretty decent for the prices, and the $8.99 Royal Bitch from Chile was practically undrinkable. The rest is pretty much a blur. Took some photos of the entertainment with a friend's camera, but she never could figure out how to email them to me. How do you have a digital camera and not know how to save the photos and email them??

When I awoke up this morning, the temperature had dropped into the lower 60s, and my head was still reeling from the previous evening. I guess I should have had more to eat and maybe something other than wine to drink. Anyway, I reached up, turned off the alarm, uttered a low groan and went back to sleep. So to get my exercise for the day, I walked down to the French Quarter at lunchtime, picked up a nice shrimp po-boy, and went over to the Moonwalk to eat overlooking the river. I'll just chalk that up as "cross-training." Got the 1-day licenses from Keith today, so hopefully we can wrap up all of the USCF Rocktoberfest paperwork and I can do the final LCCS rankings. Actually, I think I have them just about finished. Adam discovered one rider in the 1,2,3 race who was one lap farther down than he had reported to me, so I'll have to fix that, but it won't affect the LCCS rankings because neither the Cat. 1,2 nor the Cat. 3 fields were big enough to count. Guess it'll be the Giro ride for me tomorrow. The weather should be awesome.