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Yoga and Pho

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.

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Dinner for Chinese New Year

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.

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Lecture and Star Wars Exhibit

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.

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Steph and her Japanese Candies

Steph decided that she wanted to do one of her Japanese candies.  So we looked at the ones she had left and decided on a little bento box that she had done before.  They were all very tasty.

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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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