No power.

The lights just came back on.
Today at work we did a fair bit of the usual, but we also put together one of the vineyard blends. All the Grenache and Syrah blends have thus far been kept in separate fermenters. Today the Syrah blend that will go into the Tradition Rouge Grenache Syrah was assembled. After we pulled samples of all the finished Syrahs Nathalie, Cyril and Alain tasted through them, and blended them in various permutations until they arrived at the final blend. It's 50% from the Blanche vineyard (each of the kids has a vineyard named after them. Blanche, Eugene, and Olympe are all Syrah, and Achille is Grenache. There are other named vineyards on the property too, I haven't asked where those names come from.) 25% is from the Bergerie vineyard, and 25% from the Carlot estate vineyard.
I was dealing with wicked allergies all day. I had previously thought that I was allergic to sage, in Boise, but I don't think they have sage out here. I've had itchy eyes, runny nose, and sneezing all day. Normally when I feel this crappy I want comfort food, so at lunchtime I drove to the grocery store in Bellegarde for chicken noodle soup. The store, however, was not open. The close for lunch from...wait for it....12:15 to 3pm! Now I understand closing for lunch. A lot of people do it around here, and honestly I think Americans should do it more. What's getting me is the time thing. First of all, who the hell gets 2 hours and 45 minutes for lunch? Second, why the odd time frame? I get 3 hours, I get 2 and a half hours. Did they do some market research that told them there's a big shopping rush between 12 and 12:15?
So I had lentils and leftover chicken for lunch.
We finished assembling the syrah in the afternoon, and before going to the store I decided to finish watching Zach and Miri Make a Porno, which is an awesome movie. Even Jason Mewes was pretty good, and he's basically Kid Rock without the questionable musical talent. The power apparently went out while I was watching it, which I only noticed because my computer stopped charging. First I thought my power converter had crapped out, but after trying multiple devices in multiple outlets, I finally figured out there was no electricity.
I went to the store and bought chicken noodle soup and candles, then got home and realized I couldn't cook the soup without electricity, so I reheated my lunch over some tealights and had a romantic candlelight dinner for one. One of the Morroccans came over to ask me about the electricity. I told him I didn't know what was going on, but I gave him a handful of tealights because they didn't have any candles in their quarters. In return he gave me some fresh mint from the garden for tea, which seemed like a fair trade.
Now the power's back on and it's my bedtime.