A Study in Merlot

Hail fellows, well met, greetings, salutations and thank you for attending this study in Merlot, a chronicle of man's passion for excellence, and a compendium of the finest epicurean pursuits in the history of history. As Oscar Wilde observed: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." As I hope you shall see in these studies, Merlot is certainly not "most people" in Wilde's sense.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Dr. Emily's Brother Offers a Helping Hand

Dr. Emily's older brother has joined our party to help our investigation into boxed wine consumption, and the underlying motivating factors a play among North American consumers. Dr. Emily's brother has recently returned from Turkey, were he has been employed by a government contractor as a communications expert. Mike, who'se been in the middle east for the past 2 years came to visit his sister while awaiting his deployment to another post within the middle eastern theater, if you will.

Mike was drawn to our project when Dr. Emily emailed him of the plough's progress here in New Orlean, as we host routine tastings and gather feedback from the tourist drawn here by recent events. Mike has proved himself to be a valuable asset, making suggestions and offering feedback as to the merits of our methodologies. He is a bright fellow, and a welcome addition to our team, who promises to help us explore way we might "automate" our data collection process with respect to exit polls and debriefings in the wake of our boxed wine sampling events.

Mike, who as a veterian of the US Navy and various experiences where he focused on fiber optic communications moved to the private sector several years ago before striking out on his own as a consultant offering Technical Surveillance Counter Measures.
Needless to say, Mike is accustomed to earning more in a single day than we pay most of our researchers in a month, has shown himself to be good natured about the nature of our rather liquid paydays, if you will, which amount to more boxed wine sampling than cash in hand.

Most of our staff who are here from The Riverside Park have really taken to Mike, as he has offered direction in survey efforts and in setting up housing. Our sponsors have been kind enough to furnish our employees with moble home campers and we have set up a make shift community for our purpose here.

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