Last night I went to join a group at beachhead for drinks. It was Jeremy B, Adam, Tina, Riley, Rong, Steph, and myself. Adam had made some fruit soaked liquor. It was really tasty, but the kind of drink that would make you expect to look down and find a pink dress. I made the spinach gnocchi that I had bought a couple weeks ago, and it was really tasty.
I went to the chocolate garage yesterday morning with Nick, and it was really nice. I didn’t get any of the chocolate there since I have way to much to go through at my place still, but I did taste some really nice chocolates. I will have to get some of the spicy chocolates next time I go, especially patrick’s habenero.
I had lunch at Google today with Adam. We talked over board games and how his first few weeks had been going. We went to eat at a bbq place, and the food was really good. I ate a little much, and had a lot of the really tasty drinks that they provided.
Today I collected a bunch of walnuts from the backyard since we have 2 walnut trees. I think they are Californian walnuts and not black walnuts, but only cracking them will actually tell. I wore my biking gloves while peeling them, but badly stained my fingers through the gloves anyway. I put them into the dehydrator and they will be going overnight. I’m hoping to have them edible in the morning. If they turn out well I might go for some more. I was going to do banana chips as well, but there wasn’t any more room in the dehydrator once I got all the walnuts in.
This morning Steph drove to Monterey so that we could go diving on the Escapade. It was a good 2 dives, but all sorts of things went on. We went out to stillwater cove in Carmel. The boat tried to get us to Cathedrals, but the kelp and wind made it too difficult. We ended up getting tangled in the kelp anyway, but the dive was nice. I was buddied with Mai, and she was overweighted. When we tried to surface she was too overweighted to make it up, so I had to drop her weights and help her to the surface. Steph buddied with Jason, who had the exact opposite problem. He had just enough weight to make it down, but when he was surfacing on both dives he popped right to the surface. He also didn’t know how to position himself correctly to empty the BCD, so he was having issues from that as well.
We ended up diving Erik’s Pinnacle as the second dive and it was really nice. I would really like to go back there and dive it again. Mai sat out the second dive after the weight issue and the kelp monster issue. We got to see tons of fish, sea slugs, nudibranchs, and an octopus. The octopus was sitting on a yellow sea star and trying to blend in by being yellow as well; it wasn’t working. He was really cute, and we looked up the species afterwards as the red octopus.
After the dives we went and picked up Steph’s new hood at otter bay. The cat ears look better, but not great still. I drove back and took the fast way, going back over 17. Along the way we stopped at one of the fresh produce stands and got all sorts of snack foods and fresh fruits. I got 23 avocados, 20 tiny ones, and 3 massive ones of a different type. I think we should take 17 back every time we go to Monterey, but we will just have to see whatever Waze says will be the fastest way when we are ready to head out. It was pretty accurate on this trip.
Nick was nice enough to make some curry for Steph, Brian, and myself out of the vegetables he got from the delivery service. It was really tasty, and we talked about all sorts of board games while eating. I am hoping to meet this Steve guy that Brian has befriended and hopefully talk about design, business, and kickstarters.
Steph and I started the morning out well with a bike ride to Palo Alto. The ride was very pleasant, but we didn’t get to stay very long there. We went to the Chocolate Garage and I got some of the Momotombo candies. There was a big barbershop choir there and they sounded pretty good. It was different to hear the barbershop style of singing as a choir instead of a pure quartet.
A group of us got together at Adam’s today for Brunch. It was really nice of him to have us over since he had spent the last week at his new job. From what I can tell he isn’t used to working so much. It was rather tasty, with Adam providing eggs, bacon, and liquor soaked fruit. I brought the chocolates I had just picked up. We went to the movie Pacific Rim, but weren’t joined by Tina and Amit. Nick, Adam, Steph, and Andrew left from there to go to the movie. At the theatre we met up with Brian.
Wit, Riley, Nick, and I went to Jang Su Jang (Yelp Link) last ;night and it was quite tasty. I haven’t been eating much meat lately, and the last time I did I got sick, so I stayed away from the actual bbq part of it. I got some of the tasty tofu, dumpling soup. I really enjoyed the food and the company. Afterwards we went to Honeyberry (Yelp Link) for desert. I got the creme cheese roti bun, and it was delicious.
Yesterday after finishing work, I went to Stanford to play volleyball. Not many of the people that I wanted to play with were there. Nima was, but the other people playing volleyball were much better than him, and he is much better than me. I decided to not bother those guys too much, and let Nima play a game without me. I got a little bit more work done while he was playing and got to watch two pretty good games at the same time. We then went to Sliders in Palo Alto. We split a pitcher of Great White, which was a nice orange beer. The sweet potato fries were really tasty, and I got 2 sliders to complete the dinner. I went over to Steph’s after that and saw her finish off her Messenger bag for the Faith outfit. It was really nice.
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