It's an Exciting World

We had a great time Tuesday evening when we had people over to our new place for a time around the fire pit.  There were a few bumps in the road, but nothing too bad.  Dana said we couldn’t use the pit, but we had already checked with Ramone.  Some people called to complain about the noise, but we weren’t being bad, it was before quiet hours, and we weren’t playing music or anything like that.  We got to meet some of the other residents of the complex and they were pretty cool.  We had a good number of people come by including Nima, Caryn, Liana, Ryan, Andrew, Debby, Jeremy, Brian, Adam, Kevin, and Lindsay.  We met Tory and Gi.  It was a great time, and had some delicious drinks and delicious food.  There were some good baked potatoes, salad, and meat.  I didn’t have any smores, and we have a lot of them left, so we will have to have another small fire.  We still have a bit of wood too.

Steph and I went to Rooster T. Feathers this Friday with Liana and Ryan.  We had a pretty good time seeing Paco Romane.  He was the Feature act, the one in the middle, and he was hillarious.  I really enjoyed the entirety of his stand up.  The host, David Nguyen, was pretty good, but he made some jokes that were not very funny.  I think he was trying to hard to touch on sensitive subjects, and doing it in a bad way.  The headliner, Brandon T. Jackson, was funny, but in a way that Steph and I had a hard time relating to the humor.  Liana and Ryan seemed to love it, and we hope to do it again with them.  The downside of the evening was Steph leaving her phone at the club and someone picking it up before we could get back there to pick it up.  She had a bit of a freak out, but she calmed down and got a new one the next day.

Steph and I went to Half Moon Bay, and made some glass pumpkins.  It was a really pretty area, and the shop was cute.  There wasn’t much else going on, but the making of the glass pumpkins in this glass shop, but they seemed to be able to produce quite a few.  They didn’t let you do too much of it yourself, which makes sense.  The whole shop was primarily set up for people who haven’t done any glass work before.  I decided to make an orange speckled one with a dark green stem.  Steph made a more artistic pumpkin that was a mix of all sorts of colors.  I look forward to seeing how they turned out after cooling.  We also stopped by the wine tasting right next door, and Steph tried a few of the wines.  I had a great time, but I’d want to have a bit more control if I were to do something like this again.

We had a lot of people over to Beachhead and had a tasty potluck.  After eating, and drinking, we did each other’s makeup.

Then we played the Newlywed Game.  This game is a series of questions where one person of a couple answers a question and the other guesses what that person guessed.  Steph and I had a lot of questions where we didn’t quite get the question, like where did you first meet.  We had a really good time, despite losing quite badly.  Andrew and Debby won with 21 points, Jeremy and Nori were close behind with 20.  Lindsay and Kevin as well as Haru and Allana were at about 17, with Steph and I at 14.  There were a number of hilarious answers, like Lindsay being a Dead/Withered flower in the morning.  Steph knowing I’d want a wooden tie.  Steph knew that the superpower of superman’s that I’d want was the ability to turn back time.

I had a great time on Friday going to Napa with the company.  We took a party bus up and went to four wineries.  The last one served an amazing five course meal.  I had a great time and look forward to doing something like that again with all the fun people there.

Steph and I joined Tina, Amit, Jeff, and Patty at Rooster T. Feathers on Friday for a set of four comics.  The first guy was trying out a lot of material for the first time, but a good bit was funny.  The woman that came second was pretty funny, but it was because she was somewhere between a train wreck and awkwardly cute.  She was also describing things that we couldn’t really relate with, but it was still decent.  The third guy was really funny and had a really well planned performance.  He was probably my favorite.  The headliner was playing off the crowd really well, but there were lots of awkward and down moments.  The night was a lot of fun and the spiked hot chocolate I got was delicious.

Steph and I joined Andrew, Kevin, and Lindsay at a Pho place on Friday night.  The food there was pretty good, and the conversation was interesting, but it was all leading up to the karaoke.  We went to a place nearby and got a room.  The interface on the karaoke machine was amazingly terrible, like being able to hand write letters for the song you are looking up.  We got a book and mainly were inputting numbers.  I put in some Beatles songs since they are fun, short, and most everyone knows them.  I had a sore throat that day so it was a little tough to sing.  Lindsay and Debby were singing amazingly well.  Steph was doing pretty good, and then there were the guys.  Andrew was ok, Kevin was a little worse, and I was pretty bad due to the sore throat.  I had a great time.

Steph and I joined a large group at the Symphony and Dance Libre show, Including Adam, Amit, Leyan, Andrew, and Debby.  It was a pretty decent show, but I was feeling restless that evening for some reason.  We had a decent dinner beforehand at Three in San Mateo, that had great service and great sauces.  The appetizers were the best part of the meal by far, with the flaming cheese being both entertaining and delicious.  I thought the sauces were fantastic but the bases were a little lacking.  The steak didn’t have much of a flavor besides balsamic sauce, and the bread wasn’t terribly good, but for the cheese on it.  I still had a great time there, especially with Steph.