We went to a picnic at a park for Jeremy’s 30th birthday. There were a good number of people there, and we had a good time. There was a pinata in the form of a wombat that Jeremy eventually had to take down with a practice sword. It was enjoyable.
We watched Sherlock, and played some FTL at Riley’s place on Sunday evening. The episode of Sherlock was pretty good, but the bad guy didn’t get as built out as I was hoping. The FTL was fun, as I showed Riley and Steph how to win the final boss battle. We then had the others play through a round with me coaching them in some ways. Riley unlocked 3 ships along the way, and Steph was in sector 7 when she got taken out by a slaver. Wit just picked up the game, and I think his introduction was by far the most painless one can hope for, but he is surely addicted now.
I have decided to help Adam with his pet project of making a 1 person plane. It is very interesting to me, and I am looking forward to learning some from him and the construction. He has just finished the listing of the parts. There were tons of parts, but that should be expected in something as complex and big as a plane. It will be very interesting to see it come together, and help along the way.
Steph and I joined Lindsay for yoga at Yoga Belly and signed up for a 1 month trial membership. The class we did was 1.5 hours and was at about 95F. I was sweating so badly since I overheat very easily. It was a lot of hard yoga poses held for a long time as well. I wasn’t able to keep up all the way through, and I realized my balance has gotten pretty bad. I plan to go back and take a few more classes, since I like yoga and since it will be good for me.
After yoga we went to get pho at Pho Vi Hoa for the salt and liquid. It was the perfect meal for post yoga. We met Andrew and Jeremy there.
Bo is now living close to Japan Town, and we were able to hang out with him Saturday evening. We stopped by and talked for a while. His new place is really nice and he is sharing it with a guy who is doing a food truck startup. I’ll have to go work with him and get his feedback on the work we are doing.
Steph and I went to a restaurant in outer sunset that is called Kingdom of Dumplings. They have 2 locations, one for the restaurant and one for the factory. They make all their own dumplings and all the ones we tried were delicious. They had a spicy orange sauce for the dumplings which was delicious. It was a small Asian twist on the burrito orange sauce, and I want to try my hand at making some kind of the orange deliciousness. It was about 4 blocks from bo’s old place so I was hoping we could meet up with him there, but he had moved. We ate at the restaurant then walked down to the factory to pick up some of the frozen dumplings. We got to see them make a few for us while we were there, which was pretty neat.
Dan set up a great experience of puzzle solving and stories. This was a fully interactive puzzle, where you had to get out of the room in one hour. The game was lots of fun, and we were out of time with about 5 minutes of things left to sort out. It was a little frustrating to get so close and not figure it out. I was a little slow on the first puzzle I was trying to solve, so I could have done that better. I don’t want to write too much more here for spoiler reasons, but safe to say it was a great time.
I had dinner with Steph’s family for Chinese new year, and then we got them to play a few of the games we had been making. They liked the format of the Lizard Wizards, and we got to play a good number of rounds of Bot A Boom. Steph and I made some Tom Yom to share, and had a little left over this time. The rest of the food there was tasty, and since there was so much of it I took a good bit home.
Jeremy invited Steph, Andrew, and I to the lecture on the animatronics of the droids in Star Wars. There wasn’t nearly as much talk about the animatronics as it was just the one guy’s history in the movie business. I was also expecting a minor demonstration since this was the guy who used to go around giving demonstrations, but sadly he just talked and showed a few pictures/videos. The majority of the talk was focused on his recent career. The exhibit had most of the highlights and a lot of educational material that related to the specific thing being shown. This included city planning in the city exhibits, robots around the droids, health care around the medical bot. It was enjoyable, but somewhat smaller than what we expected. Before the lecture we ate at Sakoon, which was tasty, but not particularly memorable.
