We met up with people at a house in San Jose. It was a really amazing house and the owners were cooking dinner for us. They made some amazing food, and the conversation was great. This was the first time I felt really awkward for not drinking. I had a great time and Stephanie was funny at the end of the dinner.
We went to the city to have a few drinks with Lisa before she leaves. The event was at an interesting bar, that was newspaper publication themed. There were a lot of people I didn’t know, and we talked to a few of them. We then went out to eat at a place called Asha, which had some amazing Thai food.
After the movie we all went to downtown Mountain View to have dinner. We tried a few places before settling on Niji Sushi, since they didn’t have a long wait. We got some tasty tasty food, then headed over to Riley and Wit’s house for the Game of Thrones episode. The episode was the start of the battle at the wall, and was the first episode to stay in a single location. I was kind of surprised that they would do that, but wholly understand. The battle at the wall is one of the biggest events in the entire series, and they will certainly continue the battle in the next episode.
Steph and I cooked up some bean salad, and we enjoyed the tasty food before going to Farran’s launch party. She has been doing a lot of great work with videos as a side job, and decided to switch to it as a full time job. She had cake pops there and Steph and I went a little crazy over them, especially the red velvet ones. It was very nice.
A group got together to go play games at an arcade that had 4D rides. The group was most of Beachhead house including Tina, Amit, Candice, David, Kevin, Steph, and I. The place was pretty small, and the rides had varying levels of complexity. The big one had a really nice, and silly, great wall experience. It had bubbles, and a moving roller coaster like car. They also had some basic games like ski-ball and pac man. We spent a couple hours there, then went to a burger and shake place for dinner. The shake was pretty good, as it was chocolate and butterfinger.
We met with Michael at Nolas for dinner. Peter showed up, but the rest didn’t come for a long while. We decided to head on in and get some dinner, and the food was decent. Eventually Daisy, then Nima and Caryn showed up to hang out. I’ll miss Michael, but we can still have good conversations via email and chat.
We went to Kublacon on Monday mainly to meet with James. We had a good conversation about what we should expect, and what we needed to do. He has a lot of good insight on the kickstarter campaigns and games in general. I was glad that he seemed very open the idea of doing more of the digitizations of his games if this one goes well. We went to lunch at the broadway grill in burlingame. It was pretty tasty, especially the carrot ginger soup.
We met up with Jeff and Patty at Boudin SF for breakfast. We didn’t realize there were multiple locations, and we ended up showing up to the wrong one. We then drove down to meet them and had a very tasty breakfast. The bread was decent, but not as good as I was hoping. We talked about a lot of interesting things with Jeff and I’ll be meeting up with him again on Friday.
I met up with Michael and some of his friends in SF for dinner at Le Colonial. I got there a little early and worked until they showed up. The food was very tasty and the conversation was lively. The kind of people that hang out with Michael are the kind of people I like to be around. I’ll miss him when he moves to Chicago. On the way back there was a line going around the block at the Caltrain station, since the Giants game had just gotten out. I was able to make the third train with my bike on board, but it was annoying to have to wait in such a crazy line with drunk people. When I got back Steph and I tried to go watch a meteor shower, but there was too much cloud cover and city lights.
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