Writing came up on the task picker today. I wouldn’t call last night eventful but it gave me some material..
We went to OT and sat at the bar. We usually sit at a table but our area was taken over by David De La Garza, a guy who used to play for Santana.
Playback is a hour-long music trivia game. The first two rounds are regular questions, then comes 10 questions where you have to guess the next line in the song. Two rounds later is 10 questions dedicated to one subject; last night it was the Grateful Dead.
I had read the Wikipedia article about them so I was not happy. The dead have a lot of albums since there are recordings of all 2300 of their concerts. But my studying paid off; I missed only two. That got us ranked 15 out of over 4000.
After the game I went to the blind scotch taste test area. Apparently Dewar’s has released a 12-year-old version of their product. Their setup was pretty cool. They had wooden plates with areas carved out for three glasses and a cell phone or iPad touch. I couldn’t tell because it was dark and I didn’t have my glasses.
They used scotch snifters like the one below except the glasses had a shorter stem and a thicker base.
They used the electronics to get names and email addresses, tell us when to start, and record our preferences.
The glasses weren’t as full as this one. If they had a half ounce each I would be surprised. The marketer said we were tasting 12-year-old scotches.
- A had a good aroma and tasted more like Irish whiskey.
- B had the same kind of aroma but tasted like good scotch.
- C had no aroma and tasted awful.
Unfortunately C was the stuff they were trying to sell. A was Chivas Regal 12 and B was Johnnie Walker Black.
We went to a small bar in a strip center for some karaoke. There weren’t a lot of singers so we got to sing 4 songs each. I got the urge to sing Time After Time out of my system.