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First Wandering

We took a first wander around the neighborhood and realized we are in a nice part of the city. There are a lot of western style bars and food stands close to the hotel. We walked a little ways away and ended up in the middle Eastern section of the city. There we got a little bit of food just to tie us over. The others also grabbed some random street food and I decides to get a little something at the hotel. We found a bar that looked nice and got s found of drinks there. While waiting for the drinks we thought we saw a pickpocket get caught by some of the taxi drivers. It was a very relaxing way to spend the first afternoon. Steph and Tina got coconuts from one of the street stands and it was pretty good. We thought about stopping off for some massages before dinner but no one was up for trying any of the places we saw

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Getting middle eastern food near the Pakistani embassy
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The best way to cross the street is go above it
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Sitting down for a relaxing drink
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Adam is much happier with a drink in his hand after all that travel
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Getting to the hotel

We had a bit of an adventure getting to the hotel. The location that was on Google maps wasn’t even close to the right spot. Tina was really tired since she was carrying the most.  We got to the place where Google said it should be and then got 2 cabs to take us to the right spot. We got signed in right before a big tour bus pulled in and then got to the rooms. Tina and amit weren’t able to get into the room and when someone let them in there was a dog in the room. That was because the person at the desk had written the wrong number on the cards. I hope we can all find a nice place to relax and Unwind so we can all get ready to enjoy the vacation. Nick and I ran down to the 7-11 for drinks and waited in the room for the others to join.

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Dim Sum with Nick

We met up with Nick this morning for some Dim Sum at Tai Wu Mr. Fong’s.  He invited some of the games group and people from his work.  A lot of people ended up bailing at the last minute, so it was only 5 of us, but still very enjoyable.  I had way too much to eat, but it was all delicious.  After eating I rode to Brian’s for games with Nick.

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Helping out With Michael’s Costume

Michael had a fun idea for a Halloween costume, and I went over to his place to help him out with it.  We set up in his front yard since it was such a nice day out and we didn’t want to get any paint on the inside of the house he is renting a room in.  I made a makeshift easel out of a cardboard box, and we used the middles of the folding science fair boards to make the pieces of the costume.

His idea was to be a Magic the Gathering card.  I did the layout for the back end and he started working on the front.  I was able to complete all the tricky layout parts before I needed to get going for meeting up with Steph and Candice.  He is going to be wearing the card parts like a sandwich board that one would see an end-of-the-world evangelist wearing on a street corner.  He will have a cutout in the front card that he can then slip up to his face.  I look forward to seeing the completed project.

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Jeremy’s Birthday Party

Jeremy had a surprise birthday party.  We missed the dinner section since we were at Amy’s party, but the rockband back at Jeremy’s place was lots of fun.  We played until a little past midnight.  There was the famous dip, which I ate way too much of.  It was a really fun time, and I was still terrible at all the instruments (especially the keytar).

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Party at Amy’s

Steph and I went to a party at Amy’s after I biked over to her work, and we dropped Nick’s fitbit off.  It was a really nice party, and the food was amazing.  Amy had made a pizza with olives that had rosemary coming out of them so that they looked like ticks or spiders.  There were also chips sticking out of little balls of something that looked like bats.  The chocolate covered strawberries had faces on them and all of it was delicious.  There was a fantastic sweet potatoe soup, and a lot of tasty cider.  I went as Dr. Horrible since I had the costume on hand.  The group that Amy hangs out with is very chill and fun people.  I’d think we’d get along well if we hung out more.

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Ryan’s Defense

On Wednesday I went to Ryan’s PhD defense and it was very interesting.  He did some experiments on the mid water column in Monterrey Bay and used that plus some other measurements to create a generic, mid-water-column flow model.  It had a lot of points that I didn’t understand that well, but it all seemed very interesting and cool.  I was glad to get to show up an listen.  It was also nice to see Liana again and hear about her decisions.  Michael and I hung around until Ryan got out of the review and congratulated him on the successful defense.  Michael and I stopped by Ikes for dinner and chatted about all sorts of things after that, but mainly Wheel of Time.  I realized that there were a lot of details that I missed, and names I don’t remember.  That is pretty normal for me, and Michael knows a lot of them because of his forums activities on the subject and not necessarily the first read through itself.

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Squash with Nima

Nima and I had some really close games today, I think all of them were within 3 points.  He won all of them, and I got really tired after the first two games.  We played a total of 4 and I was ready to pass out at the end of that.  I had tons of fun but this combined with the morning workout is more physical activity that anything I’ve done in a long while.  I’m feeling really good about it, but sooo tired and sore.

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Hanging out with Julian

Julian came over Sunday afternoon to hack some on the most recent project I’ve been working on.  His assistance is immeasurably helpful.  I am really looking forward to Tuesday hack days, when he’ll come over after work on his way home for an hour or two.

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