Tuesday, February 10 2009
Where's Winedo?
Author not exactly as illustrated
Many apologies for the lack of blogging lately. I have plenty of excuses, but the best two are the fact that I was away on an important mission, and that for the last two weeks, the internet has hated my guts. What did we use for excuses before we got computers? I can't even remember that far back, but a combination of a new technology (a smartphone) that needed setting up, a laptop that rolled back all of it's drivers so not only would it not talk to the internet, my work server, or any other storage device (like my external drive where I keep documents) it wouldn't even turn on it's own display, and a mystery ailment with the server, the ISP and the code on the blogging provider we use meant that Tim's Wine Blog has been face down in the dust for the last week. Sheesh!
But on a much, much happier note, I was away because I was off marrying. No, not me: I'm still happily ever after, 24 years in. Nope, I was fulfilling my responsibilities as an officiant for my friends Craig and Wendy. I've known them for nearly a decade now, and not only is their company delightful, they're a wonderful couple. When they asked me to conduct part of their wedding ceremony I dusted off my ordination papers and flew off to Mexico to help hitch them up.
There were 34 of us in the party, all gathered at a resort in Nuevo Vallarta. It was a lovely place, and such a gorgeous venue for a wedding. Plus, as an all-inclusive, the bar was really an open bar.
May I present Mr. and Mrs. Swanston!
Live as long as you love, love as long as you live.
Craig is a partner in Winesense in Manitoba, but he's more pal than customer. It's pretty telling that when we had a mini-roast for Craig nobody could say anything embarassing about him--it was all soppy and warmhearted. And Wendy is so incredibly nice it's boggling. Honestly, whenever I'm around her I try harder to be a better person because she inspires that in others. The ceremony was beautiful, the sunset on the beach gorgeous and there was so much happy to go around it seemed to be spilling out of the corners of a few eyes now and then.
Of course, you can't attend a wedding for a solid week, there were other things to do:
One might ask, why are there so many pictures of me partially clothed and basking in the water on this blog. Of course, it's much easier to catch me in my native habitat, shy aquatic mammal that I am.
I was busy thinking (asleep in a hammock) when they announced that there was a competition of some sort to win a bottle of tequila. Of course, I appeared in a puff of smoke and crushed the competition--I have to hold up Canada's honour, after all. That's my prize balanced on my head above.
But, all happy fun times must pass and now it's back to the business of working! I've got a conference in Austin at the end of the month that I need to prepare for, I'm helping our retailers organise shipping entries for the Winemaker Magazine contest, there's planning to do and suchlike, and of course, my day job answering questions and putting out fires.
Hmm. I wonder what the chances of getting a swim-up pool bar for my office are . . .
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