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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
stop buying yellowtail
A couple of comments from the bottom of the bottle. first off i've been working on a few other more contemplative blog entires that may or may not get posted, we will see. I thought my last blog post was more poorly written than the usually are and lacked in any real humor. i'll do what i can to keep you entertained as well as elaborating beyond a facebook status on what i've been doing.
First, I am going to make an ASSumption that some of you actively choose to read this blog. for that im sorry. Maybe when your avoiding study, avoiding your dismal fantasy basketball team, or just avoiding, someone has to read it. I, Joshua Alexander Smith of 8 kook street, tanunda, South Australia would like to hear back from all of you. By email (joshuasmith21089@gmail.com), facebook, transpacific dolphin express, I dont really care, but it would be nice to hear back. some of you I talk to on a regular basis, most of you I do not. And shame on you, I consider myself decently interesting. thoughts on adventure, opinions about aussie wines (everyone go drink them, but then dont go drink them because they have to travel all the way across the world and that is not very local, which brings me to an important point if any of you read my blog. its great to have wines from all over the world at a place like hitimes, but for the love of dionysus stop buying yellowtail. Cheap-ass-wine all tastes essentially the same. At least when you make the conscious decision to purchase that kind of refinery style wine (that is not an elegant wine term, its a reference to the oil refinery look of those facilities) buy something that was grown in the united states. buy two buck chuck, or any of the 50 or so wine brands owned by gallo. just because it comes from australia doesn't mean its any better. If your avidly seeking hill of grace, or Grange those twelve people in the united states are forgiven, however if you are actively seeking those you could fly down here and buy one yourself. wine is a very global industry, but if your going to drink cheap, drink local). that was a long tangent, but your feedback, comments, stories would be appreciated. the second thing I was going to briefly discuss is my schedule for work. None of you can complain about getting up in the morning unless your getting up at 3:59 am or before. Im currently starting my shift at 5 am that goes till 3pm. I do however love every minute of it, hence why you cant complain if its any later. it does however make for a very early bed time and a somewhat lethargic afternoon. But hey, thats what im here for and thats what I signed up for. Its funny, I am about 18 hours ahead of california time, so if on a day when i have to get up at 4 you sleep in till 10 im essentially living 1 day ahead of you. The picture is of a machine harvester picking grapes at 445 in the morning out in front of the winery. third observation is have any of you seen the aussie dollar. aussie dollar 1:1.10 US dollars. that means that if i send back 1000 aussie dollars i get 1100 US dollars. keeping an eye on that exchange rate as well as looking into transferring some of it back early.
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I have always been perplexed by the cost of cheap aussie and NZ wines. How can they possibly do it for those prices and include the shipping. It must say something about the quality going into the product.
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