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Motorcycle Class and BJ’s

Thursday night instead of going to games 6 of us went to a motorcycle class in Santa Clara from BikeSmart.  It was Tina, Adam, Amit, Steph, Jeremy, and myself; mainly the group that is going to Thailand in November.  The class was pretty slow and the instructor slowed things down even more.  It probably would have take us about 1 hour to go through the book alone and then 1 hour to watch all the videos.  Instead we slowly went through and took about 5 hours for the whole process.  We all either missed 1 question or none on the test.

After the class we all went to BJ’s for some buffalo wings and dessert.   It was all very tasty despite the service being terrible and the place being incredibly cold.  Had it been full the amount of AC might have been appropriate.

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Tuesday in Seattle

The last day in Seattle Wit, Brian, Candice, and I went to breakfast at a waffle place.  The waffles were soooo tasty, and I got the bacon maple syrup one.  We then went to Pike’s Place Market and looked at all the various and odd things.  There were a few fish stalls, flower stalls, and bakeries, but most of the rest of the places were knick-knack places.  There was a really tasty chocolate pasta, but I would never want to cook with it since it would make a gigantic dessert.

We went to Yard house after the market and said goodbye to Wit along the way.  At yardhouse we just relaxed and played a few games on Brian’s iPad.  After a drink and some appetizers I hopped on the train for the airport and showed up a good number of hours early.  Since I was flying through LAX I happened to be on the same flight as Ash so I talked to her and gave her Stephanie’s feedback on the video.  The flights were non-eventful, and I was barely able to catch the connecting flight.  It was on a twin turbo prop, which is something I wasn’t expecting.  The plane still got me to SJC quickly.  Steph was nice enough to pick me up from the airport, and we went back to my place.  The kitties were happy to see me and I did a thorough cleaning of the bathroom before going to bed.

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Jeremy’s Hang out and Play Games Party

This was quite a nice event.  We played two different games while there.  Dragon’s Crown and Mario for the Wii U.  They were both incredibly chaotic games, and we didn’t do terribly well in either.  Luckily they are designed for people who can’t play games that well.  One is the hack and slash, and the other is a very forgiving platformer.

Jeremy made his famous dip, and also the elusive pizza dip.  They were both quite delicious, and I ate way to much of both of them.  He also had a nice selection of beer, and I got some more caps for my collection.

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Breakfast at Izzy’s

Tuesday morning, the beautiful Steph and I walked to Izzy’s from my place for some breakfast.  Izzy’s is a fantastic bagel shop, that I think is so amazing for their delicious varieties of cream cheese.  We each got a bagel and split the sun-dried tomato cream cheese.  I would love to do more breakfasts like this one in the future.

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Housewarming

I had people over for my housewarming on Monday.  It turned out to be a little too warm.  When I turned on 2 burners and had the oven going the little amount of airflow that I could get from the apartment just wasn’t enough and it started to heat up substantially.  Steve was probably the most effected by it, but everyone felt a little warm to say the least.

I ended up having Jeremy B, Adam, Andrew, Amy, Adelaide, Tina, Amit, Candice, Brian, Nick, Steve, and Steve’s wife over.  It was a very large crowd for the space and I could not have fit more people in than were already there.  I was somewhat surprised by the turnout since only half of them said that they would be there.

We played some cards against humanity and open faced chinese poker.  The games worked really well in the space, and with the crowd that was there.  Everyone liked the kitties, and played with them using the laser pointer.  I think things went as well as could be expected.

I cooked a baked mac ‘n’ cheese dish, that turned out really well.  The bacon was super tasty in it.  I think I’ll make it again and take it over to beachhead for dinner on Thursday.  Jeremy brought over a cake, Amy brought over ice cream and root beer, Brian brought over some chips and dip, and Wit brought over some really tasty beer.  Nick also brought over most of the Liquor that we had built up, I’m assuming once he finds a place he’ll want me to bring over some of the nicer stuff that he likes to his housewarming.

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Umami and Japanese Candy with Steph

Sunday night Steph and I took a bike ride to Stanford.  We saw the horses there and Steph petted a few of them.  After that we went to Palo Alto and stopped by Rocket Fizz.  I got some of the cream filled caramels that I like.  I was able to get all the bottle caps from them, and it will go well with the other ones in my collection. I’m just about ready to make the table with them, and I expect it to be a nice table.  I’m most likely going to do a rainbow pattern or random pattern.  I had considered making it into a compilation, somewhat like pixel art, but that didn’t appeal to me too much.

We had dinner at Umami and it was really tasty.  I got the Greenbird over fries and gravy.  We got the fried pickles, which were surprisingly bad.  I normally like fried pickles, but these were too much pickle and too little fried.  Steph got the beat salad, and we shared some truffle fries.

After Umami we biked back to my place and Steph made some japanese candy that she found at Rocket Fizz.  The candy was for a tiny japanese pizza, but it wasn’t the normal kind of japanese candy that actually tastes like the item.  This tasted like sugar covered toffee, and not great toffee at that.  Steph still enjoyed it despite the difficulty in eating it.

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Russian River Beer Revival and BBQ Cookoff

I went to the 13th annual Russian River Beer Revival and BBQ Cookoff.

None of the pictures here are mine, since I wasn’t about to take a phone or camera to this event.

On the way there Nick and Fred came to pick me up.  Fred is the Box intern from last summer that is now full time at Box.  The drive there was longer than expected and Nick and Fred were mainly talking about Box and SF Living.  I dozed off for a bit, but joined in the conversation when it went back to other things.  We got to the campsite right at sunset.  I set my tent up wrong at first and had to get Brian and Andy to help so that I could get it set up.  We then ran by the grocery store to get food and beer.  We had a nice sit around the fire.  Andrew and Adam showed up later and they got the tent set up quickly.  I went to bed decently early, and had a really restful sleep due to the 4 beer.

The owner of Camp Outback in all his glory.  He does fire dancing at night for anyone who wants to watch.

Saturday morning we went into town for some coffee, and I just walked around the town a bit.  It is a nice little place.  There were a good number of real estate places in the town, and the surrounding area seems incredibly inexpensive when compared to SF or the Bay Area.  Shortly after the coffee run we started walking to the main event.  I had with me the holder for the small glass, and a cloth for wiping my hands on.  Nick, Brian, Candice, and I were VIP, so we got in a little earlier.  There was maybe a 5 minute lag between the VIP getting in and everyone else getting in, which wasn’t even close to the 1 hour that was promised.  I wasn’t too bothered by it but it was strange how quickly they let in the rest of the crowd.  I was a little upset at the first few places giving me so much of the beer, since I wanted to try a little bit of a lot of different beers.  The only bad part about the VIP is the larger cup that doesn’t fit the holder, and is far to much when filled up.  There was a really amazing ginger beer that I would like to find more of.  I’ll have to try some ginger beers to find something as tasty as this was.  At the ginger beer booth, one of the hosts offered me a towel and the small glass for the VIP cup.  I gladly took it.  Nick then went over and got a T-shirt and a small glass for his VIP cup.

I had soooo much BBQ of beef, pork, and chicken.  I didn’t even taste the sides this time.  All of it was tasty, and most of it was absolutely delicious.

After a little while I decided to get in the river.  It was trying to get down the slope to the river while as drunk as we were, but not too bad.  The water was colder than I would have liked, but incredibly refreshing for being as cool as it was.  I snuck off for a bit after that to take a nap behind the stage.  It was incredibly relaxing and I had such a good time.

As the festival was winding down we all started making our way to the upper deck.  We set out from there for the pizza place in Guerneville.  We got a good bit of pizza and I ate a ton of it.  It is quite surprising how much pizza one can eat after an all you can eat and drink beer and bbq festival.  It was really tasty pizza.

After the pizza place we went back to camp, and decided to play some open faced chinese poker.  It is an interesting game with all sorts of subtlety.  I think it would be fun to have poker at my place every so often and play this variant.  It has a lot more strategy to the game itself, whereas other forms of poker have more strategy to the meta game.  I took a bit of a nap once the light was too dim to continue poker.

Nick and I decided to leave that night, and Andrew decided to join us.  We watched the fire dancing, which was pretty good that night, then we left.  On the way back we ran into some crazy construction on 880 that took the highway down to 1 lane.  It took us around 45 minutes to clear that section, but that was the only delay.  I was dropped off first, since I’m just on the other side of the Dumbarton Bridge.

I really enjoyed the festival, but I don’t think I’ll be going again.  The over-drinking and over-eating are things that I will be doing without as much of.  I think Nick was feeling the same way about it.  I love the atmosphere and the festival, but it has run its course for me.

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Oren’s Hummus with Nick

Today Nick and I went to dinner at Oren’s Hummus.  We got the Shakshuka and Labane combo, and it was just as good as I remember it being.  We each got a Sam Adams and it was a really nice dinner all together.  Nick is still looking for places and it will most likely be in SF for him.  Afterwards we went to my new place and Nick thought it was decently nice.  I put in a new shower head and bought the x10 system for automation.  I might need to get a few more pieces to have it all work properly, but it will be entirely worth it in the end.

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An End to the House Search

Today was my last day of looking at places.  The only place that I considered vs. the basement studio was a little house in Palo Alto on the North side of University.  It was in the back of a multiplex, but still rather nice.  Nick didn’t seem up for it, since it was decently small.  I ended up taking the basement studio in EPA thanks to the reviews from Nick and Bill.  I am going to try to spruce the place up tomorrow and move in mostly on Monday.  I need to still meet the woman that lives upstairs, and especially set up how we are going to work out the internet situation.  Comcast has the house registered as a single address, and apparently it would be a pain to split it (not to mention more expensive).

While on the search we stopped by the Chocolate Garage, which was packed.  Then we went to BackAYard and had a really tasty lunch.  It will be nice living so close to there and downtown Palo Alto.

I’ll be moving the kitties on Monday as well, so they will be back to the real toilet for toilet training instead of the cardboard setup I’m using now.  I’ll probably keep them on this sized hole for the next 2 weeks while they acclimate to the new house.

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