Ah... to be young and pretentious! Well, I'm no longer young, but I can still be pretentious. We had mountain mushroom pate, rabbit pate, wild boar prosciutto, smoke goat cheese, some kind of smoked meat with a name I couldn't pronounce or spell, and wine. As I've been told, you gotta start with whites, and move on to the reds.

 

The problem with this is of course spillage... folks tend to spill more often as the evening progresses, and red wine isn't the easiest to clean.

 

Here's the technique (or what we did yesterday).

Step 1. Dump salt on the stain. Critique Gan's choice of salt.

Step 2. Critique Gan's lack of soda water.

Step 3. Dump the rest of the salt on the stain. Apparently it draws the wine out of the carpet.

Step 4. Go to the store and buy stain remover. We tried the Dual Chambered Woolite Oxy Deep 2x first. It promises to use the power of oxygen to clean away the stains. Results weren't too impressive.

Step 5. Go to the store again. We got ProSolve Triple Action this time. It worked really well! Well, pretty well. The rug is mostly cleaned now! We'll see what it looks like in the day light tomorrow.

 

Anyways, a good time was had by all for Pretentious night.

I did my first half marathon this weekend! It took me one hour forty nine minutes and twenty seconds. It's apparently a decent time for a first timer, but looking at it, I've just come to some conclusions.

 

I came in 50/82 in my age category.

I came 435/882 for my gender.

I came in 632/2009 overall.

 

Basically, what it comes to is I haven't achieved average in my age category. I shall have to strive to fulfill my true average potential in the Vancouver Half.