It's Your Birthday

It's been a birthday extravaganza the past few days at the winery.  

Well, just two**.  

The boss's birthday and the boss's boss's birthday.  And unfortunately the winery troubadour was nowhere in sight to score the events.

The boss's boss's birthday was first.  Last Friday T and I had the honor of preparing the wine for the pre party.  We opened each of the 30 bottles, removed the wine from the sediment and poured them back into the original bottles.  And of course performed some necessary (and delicious) quality control.

15 bottles were 1996 Chateau Mouton Rothchild:

The Other 15 were the 1994:

A single bottle averages $400, so that was $12,000 in wine (I was trying to think of a metaphor for how much money that is, but it was just depressing).  T preferred the '96 and I the '94, but we'll probably never drink that wine again, so it doesn't really matter.  The "Does wine that is $400/bottle taste 10 times better than a $40 bottle" discussion will be left for another time.

For the boss's birthday today, we brought him a cake on a forklift in the shape of a fancy wine bottle:  

It's 7:30pm and T is still doing dishes.  By the way, seems like 60% of what we do in the lab is clean up after the 40% of work we do.  Time to help him so we can all go home.

Today's Tunes:  Visit down memory lane with Tool.  T and I used to be very different people.  Everyone has their own journey.

Up Next: It's been balls hot in Napa, tomorrow we see what else has melted.

-T & L

**Actually 3!  Happy 12th Birthday to Google.