A Day in the Life or when in Penola....do as...(also more awesome music)

6:14 am: Music begins playing in dream; the kick. Luckily I have an answer - the snooze button (the plot of the movie inception would have been much easier had they known about the power of the snooze button). (sidenote: I've done a fair bit of research on deciding what songs make me the least angry and irritable about waking up; Bob Marley is always a good choice. I personally like the little-known "thank you lord" by him. Currently "home" by edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes is waking me up and doesn't seem to piss me off too much (though, ultimately I have now ruined this song by associating it with waking up)

6:24 am: Music again?. Confusion. Scramble for snooze button. (occasional spill of ill-placed wasabi peas package on night stand)

Wasabi is like a Japanese preservative, right? They're still good to eat, right?

6:34 am: Fuck you Edward Sharpe, no one care where home is. Snooze prevails once more.

6:44 am: Music. Fine I get it. I begrudgingly get out bed and begin the freezing cold walk to the shower. (I miss central heating much more now, especially my feet)

6:50 am: Somewhat more awake from shower. Brush teeth. Floss. Dry off. Get dressed. Tea on, toast in. Vegemite at the ready. Cornflakes in bowl.

7:10 am: Eat vegemite toast, drink tea. Briefly enjoy life.

7:25 am: Look at watch, realize I've been briefly enjoying life for a little more than briefly and am going to be late for work. Grab lunch, throw on boots and get in the ute.

7:26 am: Begin the process of getting my ute out of it's parking space. This generally involves a 4 point turn because I have no power steering and I drive a 1987 Diahatsu Rocky. "I DRIVE a DIAHATSU ROCKY!" (as preformed by Will Ferrell)

1st to 4, in under 60....seconds...gears....dig it

7:35 am: Arrive at winery. Rush in and head to lab. Start calibrating the pH meter so it looks like I've been there for a while (and to anyone from work reading this, it is obviously a novel tale and made up. I'm always on time).

7:35-10:15 am: Putz around at the winery. Often doing lab work, shoveling tanks, setting up lines, etc. Occasionally just pulling a Costanza and acting frustrated and busy even though I'm doing nothing. "George is getting upset!"

"Of course, Absolute Zero!"

10:15: Smoke-o (which is Aussie for coffee break, and is mandatory btw). Couple slices of pizza later and a cup of coffee, back to work.

11:00- 2:00 pm: Generally lots of lab and cellar work. Not even gonna get in to it because no one cares. It's basically a shit ton of enzymatic assays, and other stuff to tell me whats in the wine.

2:00 pm: Lunch.

2:30 - whenever: TCOB (taking care of business..."we chose to use one resume for the both of us; you know, going green"..had to throw the always sunny reference in there)

end of day (anywhere from 5:30 - 9) and or Beer O'clock, as it's called: Everyone sits down and enjoys a Cooper's sparkling ale. Often several are enjoyed. Occasionally another beer is presented other than Coopers. Often a roadie is taken (and is legal here....amazing...what an age we live in)

end of day (+ 2-3 beers) pm: get home, park my ute for 5 minutes. Eat. Possibly enjoy another fine Coopers ale. Watch a little TV on my computer (thank god I went nuts and downloaded so much). Putz around on the interweb and if I'm really bored, write a stupid blog entry. Recently, I've had the joy of trying to find a job for next harvest, which is ever so much fun, isn't that right Mary Poppins?

11:15 pm: Decide I should probably go to sleep since I have to get up at 6:30.

11:45 pm: Eventually make the move to finally go to sleep.

12:10 am : Fall asleep and hopefully not dream of work (this happened once, it's the worst nightmare - you're working 24 hours a day, only it seems like even more cause dream time is slow (thank you Inception, again).

6:14 am : wake, snooze, rinse, repeat.


MORE AUSSIE MUSIC (the Australian-American government has hired me to promote Australian artists in the US). This week, some really awesome shit. Enjoy:

Oh Mercy - Let me go (Aussie band, from a Triple J recording no less)

Young the Giant - the Apartment (actually Californian)

Andy Bull - Last Waltz (love this song):