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Suppenkuche with Chris

 

I went to Suppenkuche with Chris H and Francis.  Chris is pretty much done with his coursework for the PhD and is going to be hanging around SF a lot more.  I will probably go hang out with him and work on PRAINZ some days.  He lives in a nice place in the city and it will be fun to hang out with him.  This will help him keep on topic as well as helping me to keep on topic. (Suppenkuche Site)

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The restaurant was really nice, albeit a little expensive.  I got a fabulous mushroom soup and dumpling stuffed roasted chicken with potato pancakes.  I got two different beers and the second was really tasty, but I can’t recall what it is.

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After Suppenkuche we got ice cream at a close by shop, Smitten Ice Cream.  I got the salted caramel and it was delicious.  (Smitten Site)

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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development

This book had a lot of good points on how to foster leadership, hard work, and efficiency.  They talk about how the company makes it every persons job to be in charge of their station, and then makes it important for them to know all the things about the line.  It stresses that building leadership and efficient, happy work are an ongoing process.  Having the ongoing process where everyone has the authority point out better ways of doing things can make the company great.

Audible Link

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Game of Thrones S3E9

This was a great episode, with the capture of Yunkai, the Red Wedding, and John Snows escape back to the Night’s Watch.  There were a few changes made to the stories that simplified things again, but I didn’t mind most of them.  The inclusion of Jane on the Red Wedding was a little odd though.  It will be interesting to see if they make the next episode a lot of wrap up pieces or if they go for some more of the majore plot points.

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Factory Fun!

Brian, Candice, Nima, Caryn, and I played a game of Factory Fun!  Nima and Caryn picked up the game really quickly, and did very well.  I picked up most of the really good pieces and got lucky a few times so that I could win with all the bonus points.  The game was pretty quick and I had a really good time playing it.

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2nd annual meatball invitational

I had a great time at the meatball invitational.  A lot of people ended up coming as well.  Jessica, Caryn, Nima, Simon, Tony, and others showed up for the meatball making.  I served up some tofu pasta that some people liked and otherts thought was a little strange.  I really liked the meatballs and the marinara sauce that Nick made.  I am looking forward to eating a good number of them over the next few months.  I had a good bit of wine, some beer, some cider, and some liquor, but it was spaced out over the whole afternoon and evening.

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Sunday morning groceries

This morning we went to the farmers market and I had my normal samosa. Steph got bolani and egg salad tofu. I got some blueberries and toffee almonds. Once we got back to my place we hung around a bit and then went off to Safeway. I then biked to whole foods and got some of the pasta that Jeff gave me when I visited him in Atlanta. It was delicious. I then stopped by the Milk Pail Market and got some cheese. I think I should do my grocery shopping at the milk pail from now on.

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Persian Market

When we got back to Mountain View Nima suggested that we go by the Persian Market that he frequents.  It is called Rose International Market, and has a lot of really good, decently priced food.  They have a kitchen in the back that will make amazing kabobs.  They wrap the kabobs in flatbread and the flatbread soaks up all the juices from the cooked meat.  It is tasty, a lot of food, and cheap.  We took it back to his place and ate there.  He also talked us into trying a carbonated yogurt drink, which was decently tasty.  It isn’t good on its own, but when you are eating something fatty I could see it being pretty good.  Steph also got a desert from there that Nima says translates to the ‘yellow soft’ stuff.  It was really strongly flavored, but pretty good.

Persian Market Yelp

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Wine Tasting and Chocolate

After the sailing we decided to stop by some fancy places.  The first was a little winery tasting room for MJA Vineyards.  We had some of their wine, but didn’t think it was that great.  The chocolate covered coffee beans were pretty tasty, but that didn’t justify a purchase.  After the wine tasting we went to a chocolatier and got a lot of chocolate.  Steph was cute and kept seeing something else she thought sounded tasty and she would grab one and add it to our pile.  We ended up getting 11 different kinds of chocolate.  We tried one while driving back and it was really good.  I don’t think it was quite as good as the Chocolate Garage chocolates, but still nice.  It was more flavored with not as great chocolate.

Tasting room site

Chocolatier Yelp

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First Sailing Outing

Today we took Cat 35 out for our first sailing outing on the big boats without an instructor and it went really well.  We only stayed on the water for about 4 hours, but it was plenty for us.  Nima and Caryn weren’t feeling too good, so 4 hours was about the limit.  The winds were really strange, as there was about 2 miles of no wind before getting into the regular wind stream.  It took us a long time to get out into the wind, and we were really far off the coast.  I am glad we got some good wind after all, as it would have been a disappointing sailing outing without it.  Julian was a lot of help around the boat as he had done a good bit of sailing with Lasers, so he knew the basics.  Bri didn’t seem to be enjoying herself all that much, and was the only one not to take a turn at the wheel.  Since we had to go 2 miles offshore to get wind, the waves were pretty big compared to what we had normally been dealing with.  It made the adventure that much better, but also made the passengers that much sicker.  When we were moving it wasn’t too bad for them from the sounds of it, but when we were hove to they were feeling really bad, especially Nima.  We had lunch out on the water after we had hove to, and it was really tasty.  Julian and Bri brought a tasty spinach and artichoke dip, along with some margarita.  As we were heading in the racing had move to only a couple hundred yards from the mouth of the harbor, and we got a little in their way.  They were far to close to shore, but there wasn’t any wind anywhere else within a few miles.

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