Steph and I had dinner with Bo at Umami. Alexey, a guy bo met at the meteor presentation, met us there as well. I got the palo alto special, late nighter, and it was OK. The beer was really good, Brother Thelonias. It had a really rich and unique flavor, with no bitterness. The bike ride from work was really nice as well, it took about 45 minutes to get to Stanford, but it was a wonderful day.
Nick, Steph, and I went to Shezan for dinner today. We stopped by tea era beforehand because we got there 10 min early. Shezan opens at 5:30 not 5. I pointed out to Nick that there is a lunch buffet, and he things it would be great to meet up for lunch. I really just realized that I can meet people for lunch now that I am working in mountain view. I can even bike to lunch and bike back without too much issue.
We went to the farmer’s market yesterday and got a ton of stuff. All of it so far has been tasty. I got a honeycomb there and for some reason I expected it to be crunchy. Of course it wasn’t at all crunchy it was waxy and tasted exactly like honey. I feel kinda stupid for expecting it to be otherwise, but what can you do? I got 10 avocados since they were only $1 each and served 5 of them for the game of thrones watching night. I also got some spicy yuba strips that were sooo tasty. There was a new butternut squash based sauce at bolani, and I ended up getting it. While it is really good, the tomato still goes better with the bolani bread. The pesto is still fantastic with cucumber. A lot of the stalls were missing since it was forecasted as being rainy. Two of the stalls we wanted to go to, the Miso Suke and candied nuts, were among those missing. We got a great haul and I’m looking forward to having some more of the strawberries tonight.
We went here for lunch and it was soooooo good. I’d like to go back here often. I got the Greenbird burger, and it had something called green cheese, which was a pretty tasty sauce. I was slightly disappointed about the green cheese because I thought it would actually be a green slice of cheese.
A group went to the Stanford Theater last night to see North by Northwest. I really enjoy the movie and it is such a precursor to so many other spy movies. Stephanie and I were joined by Bergfeld, Nick, Riley, and Omari. Afterwards we enjoyed some of Oren’s Hummus. It was tasty, but not as good as usual. We should have gotten the hot tomato dish with egg as that is one of the tastiest things. After that we went to the Hookah place and smoked some. The pineapple one was really strong, and the double apple wasn’t that flavorful.
Bo and I had dinner and beers at The Source. It was nice and we got a lot of talking in. Bo likes the idea of Product Management and I think he could be ok at it if he could keep a cooler head. He likes rushing off into the unknown a little too much for being a good Product Manager on the analytics side. He also needs to spec a bit more than he is used to.
I got the Borek, some mushroom dish with rice. I had the Fish Tale Amber Ale, and it was surprisingly good.
We had a good talk and things are looking good, although Liwen got denied his Visa. Bo thinks it is because Liwen is single, and that makes him a risk for trying to marry for citizenship. I hope Liwen gets over, as that would make things much easier should it go well.
We grabbed some coffee at Ritual which was very tasty, and the went to BJ’s for dinner. BJ stands for Burger Joint. I got the chicken sandwich and a chocolate milkshake, and both were pretty delicious. After dinner we went back to Ritual and worked a good bit on the wording and messaging of the application. We talked to an interesting artist girl who made me feel really good about what we were doing, since we actually believe in it and are excited. She had talked to two businessmen style entrepreneurs earlier yesterday, and they sounded like terrible people who were just trying to get money.
Jeremy came over and game me some of his GF’s Creme Brulee for letting him use my tanks in the rescue class this weekend. Stephanie and I had considered going to dive this weekend, but the wave model was showing it as being terrible.
Sunday morning bright and early I went to meet up with Nima and Caryn at Stanford to play some squash. We both got there at 8:40, so we threw the frisbee around until the facilities opened at 9am. After they opened we played 3 way squash until 10:30.
After squash I called my parents and talked to them for about 20 minutes.
Then Caryn, Nima, and I went to meet Steph and Nick at the California Avenue Farmer’s Market. I got my regular Samosa and ended up having lunch there with the amazing Lamb Curry Wrap. After that Nima and Caryn joined me at Shoreline Lake for a relaxing talk and sit. We just sat by the bay most of the time and talked about life. If they end up moving close I’ll have to take them out sailing on the lake.
After that I went to home and played some more Minecraft with Nick. Then, I left to join Stephanie for some horseback riding. Smoothy was being good and I got some 2 point and trotting in. Stephanie was having a really hard time getting Calypso to do anything and Calypso even reared up on Steph once.
We went to hang out at beachhead, then joined them for dinner at Tofu House, where I got the number 1. I’d like to go to Tofu House more often as it was delicious and not that fatty, just really salty. After that we sat down and watched My Cousin Vinny, which is a really awkward but good movie.
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