Thread: Task of the Month for January 2015

Failed attempt at the wine TOTM: Wine Into Water

Relevant excerpt:

I wondered what to do and quickly decided to try to knock off the wine TOTM, which seemed like an easy one. So I walked swiftly to the kitchen pantry where I keep a lot of wine and reached for one at random. It was a rosé in a clear glass bottle. The level was very low, well down the shoulder, but since the cork was intact I figured it should count as a "full bottle" as specified in the TOTM. At first the bottle was the shape and size of a typical wine bottle, the more streamlined profile you usually see with burgundies, but as I set it down on the kitchen counter to get a better look, it transformed in front of my eyes to the larger, plumper form of a two-liter plastic soda bottle.

I was still determined to open it, so I picked it up and carried it over to where the corkscrew should be. It occurred to me that I should make a more detailed observation of the bottle first, since it was covered in writing printed directly on the glass. The writing was in white script of various fonts and sizes, but the white lettering against the clear glass was hard to read, especially with the level of the wine so low. The fonts were also elaborate and hard to make out. I held it up at an angle to get the best view and looked carefully. I could make out that the biggest word was "Mersault," which would make sense since (as I suspected and google confirms), this is an actual appellation in Burgundy. The next largest set of letters spelled "Farb," which reminded me of the German word for "color." I wondered if this had to do with the color of the wine, and was startled to observe that the wine was now colorless and looked exactly like water. Moreover, the bottle was starting to remind me of a water bottle. Oh dear, had I accidentally turned my wine into water? I'd better grab a different bottle! I was walking back to the pantry when I woke up.

Rocket failure.

Somehow some of the tasks seeped thru to my brain in a nap but the lucid part forgot to wake up...

It started in a Walmart parking lot where I had parked my motor-home and rented a cheap motel room with some others of my group.
While they went shopping I tried to fit in a quick shower in the Motel. As I went in I tried the lights but they didn't work, Undaunted I checked and someone had stolen all the light bulbs except one of those screwy,screw in florescent bulbs which I took to the bathroom where it produced only a dim blue glow.
Not seeing the dream signs I tried to get undressed but there was no way I was getting those pants off. Finally I gave up on the shower and went outside to pee because there was no water in the toilet and had no idea yet I might be dreaming and as I started I pee'd high into the air, Hundreds of feet into the air and it produced beautiful star-burst's and I could hear oohs and aahs from people I couldn't see in the darkness and through it all I still never had an inkling I might be dreaming until the phone woke me up..
I may be doomed.......