Dad, Mom, and I went to the Ru San’s near little 5. We stopped by the Best Buy beforehand. Kim joined us, but Jeff and Lesley weren’t able to. Dad was strange and said I could only order one thing, so I ordered a three course dinner with a huge sushi plate as the third course. It was all tasty, and dad picked at the first two courses. I ate all of it and I really liked it.
I had a nice walk to lunch with Brian and Brittany. We ate burgers at a place called Farm Burger, that gets lots of it’s food from local sources. I got some tasty sweet potato fries, and they got some homemade root beer. We went back to my parent’s place and I showed them my Thailand photos. Brian and Brittany were kind enough to try out my game. They seemed to like it and I’ll have to push it out more widely once I get a little bit further in the game development.
Steph and I made some delicious Tom Yom with Caryn and Nima. They came over to help us cook, and it was a lot of fun. Since we prepared everything so quickly, I don’t think we got as much of the spice in the soup as we normally do. We had the soup the next day and it was very tasty. Nima and Caryn seem to be doing well, and we should hang out with them more. They are really fun people. They invited us over to their place some time in January for some Persian food, and I’m really looking forward to it.
Stephanie and I went to dinner and had a good time about it. We got a lot of small dishes and shared them. They had some of the best stuffed grape leaves I’ve ever had; even Steph liked them and she doesn’t normally like stuffed grape leaves. The beet salad was really good, and we got fries for good measure on filling up. We got desert which was pumpkin bread pudding and galaktoboureko, a dish that had cream filled fried pastries with ice cream. The bread pudding was good but the other dish was better.
This dinner was for us knowing each other about 2 years now. It has been the best 2 years of my life for sure.
Steph and I stopped by the Chocolate Garage yesterday and got some really tasty chocolates. There was one maker that we will probably sign up for a bimonthly delivery from. He is a chocolate maker that lives in Hawaii and grows his own beans. One of the Chocolate Garage owners let us try some of the samples he had sent her. They were delicious.
We then stopped by the Whole Foods and got stuff for more Tom Yom, as well as some milk for hot chocolate and cheese making. We went back to Steph’s place and met up with Jeff, Patty, and Candice. They all had some of Steph’s amazing cheese, and we talked about company stuff.
Steph and I went to dinner at Los Charros with Jeremy, Andrew, and Lindsay. I biked there and it took about 50 minutes. I nearly got hit by a guy that came flying off the interstate at about 70 mph onto a 35 mph road, right through the crosswalk that I was in. Lindsay was a little late, so the rest of us all ordered beforehand and got the wet burritos. They were absolutely massive, at least 50% larger than the average human stomach. Being Americans and the burritos being delicious we promptly ate the entire thing. After dinner we stopped by Tea Era for some boba.
We then went to Jeremy’s where they tested out some wine aerators. I had a bit of trouble poring one of them as it splashed everywhere when going through the aerator. We talked about all sorts of things and had a relaxing time.
Jimmy is moving out of Beachhead to get married and live in Freemont. We gave him a going away dinner with Steph and I cooking tom yom and red curry. It was all very tasty and the soup turned out as the best we’ve made. Even Wit was really impressed by the quality of the soup. Tina made some amazing cookies, that turned out to be about the size of a small plate. Riley, Amit, and David also joined later with Candice coming over after dinner. Steph and I decided to break out the ginger cider and we’ll probably have people over Friday for a bottling party. I’m not sure if we have everything we need or enough bottles, but it should be fun to taste it all and get a sense of how it turned out. After dinner we watched X-Men First Class, and it was just as good as I remember it.
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Candice and I went to a Unity Developer meetup and talked to a number of developers. Several of them were very interested in the system we were proposing and game some good feedback on the plans. I hope to see them again so that we can get them to play around with the system and make some games for it. It would also be pretty easy to make their current games into ones that work with the system.
After the meetup we went to La Bamba, the old location. We walked in and it was all deconstructed, but they were nice enough to redirect us to the new location. We got some dinner and talked about company stuff. Things are coming together nicely. Now we just need to polish and complete the alpha product.
We got up in the morning to cook some food for Thanksgiving dinner. We decided on Tom Yom and cheese, but the cheese didn’t turn out. The Tom Yom was a big hit, and we got request to bring more of the soup. I also donated my remaining abalone to the dinner, and Russel cooked it up nicely. There was a lot of typical Chinese food like friend rice, mustard green, and spring rolls, but there was a turkey as well. After dinner we played some of the games I have been making and that went over really well.
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