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From the Wine-Of-The-Month Club's October selection:

2005 Lo Tengo Torrontes
Made from 100% Torrontes. The wine is a lively straw color. Intense floral aromoa along with aromas of tropical fruit. On the palate it is flowery and vivid with excellent fruit, a truly explosion of the senses. It has good acidic balance. The wine is ready to be enjoyed now. Serve chilled with Pacific Rim cuisine such as mushroom dumplings in chicken broth, herb stuffed zucchini with basmati rice, tuna with mango sauce, Alaskan butterfish marinated in Torrontes and Miso, lobster with papaya sauce, and steamed bass with caramelized onions, ginger, and scallions.

And here I'm plumb out of mango sauce, too... :-)

Still Alive...

The lab is moving... It's like pouring 5 gallons of crankcase oil into a pint glass. No major disasters so far, although at one point this morning Jorge was about ready to have us start packing up again to move back. Don't ask.

Things are a little...tense at work right now. Everyone's overworked and a little cranky. It doesn't look like we'll have any science happening until next week at the earliest. Pfui. Maybe someday I'll graduate, but not if I don't manage to get some data collected, dang it. That hot pink mutant strain has been sitting in the fridge for a week and a half now, waiting for me to figure it out...

Wow!

So, this robot was inspecting an undersea oil pipeline, some 900 meters down, when along comes this whale... That's about it, actually, but it's so cool!