Last night we decided that the testing wasn’t a good idea, since we were all full and the juice doesn’t keep. This morning I woke up early and made some for Stephanie, Nick, and myself. I kept the bitter items out of theirs, asparagus and broccoli. I put the asparagus and broccoli in mine, and took out the apple. It is incredibly tasty to me, and makes me glad that I’m a non-taster.
This morning I took about an hour to make 3 cups of juice and clean up afterwards. The clean up took a long time and the cutting up of veggies took a while as well. I think I should be able to keep the time required down by preparing a good portion of the cutting and washing to the day before, and then being more familiar with the juicer. It was pretty easy and the juice was tasty. I felt full this morning and even felt decently full into lunch. I had a small lunch and smaller breakfast due to it that I normally would have. We are going to taste test some veggies tonight, to see how they taste and which ones have the bitter that Steph and Nick don’t like.
I went to the farmers market and got tons of vegetables. I had my customary samosa and got the usual bolani, tofu and misozuke. I dropped some stuff off at my place and then went back to beachhead to start the juicing. I made vegitable and fruit juices separately. The fruits were strawberries, carrots, apples, and tomatoes. The vegitables were broccoli, asparagus, avocado, and cucumber. I enjoyed both. I also was very glad that I wss a nontaster. Steph found the veggie juice bitter, probably from the broccoli. I hope to keep doing this and need to get a good container for the juice so I can keep it in the fridge at work.
After diving 8 of us went to a restaurant called Hula’s (Yelp). They had something called ‘Mac ‘n’ Cheese ‘n’ Cheese’ which of course Stephanie and I had to get. We also shared a Tofu Taco. Since we had already eaten lots of bonali we didn’t need to get too much to eat at the restaurant. I think it is a good plan that I at least should continue, by eating beforehand on something healthier and tasty, then getting something small and healthy at the restaurant itself. To drink I got a Mai Tai, which was a little too sweet for me, but not bad.
After that we went to Otter Bay, a company that makes custom wetsuit parts. Stephanie decided to get a custom hood made that is thicker and a set of cat ears. The cat ears are red on the front and purple on the back.
We then went to a BBQ with some of the dive community from Diver Dan’s. I saw Jim, Tommy, Aaron, and some others that I should remember their names but don’t. Aaron was a great host and we had some really tasty things. There was something called a pink greyhond that was a tasty drink, and a lot of really nice foodstuffs.
Bo and I talked a lot last night at the Holy Grill, a little burger place just next to Zynga. I got the diablo burger, which was nice, but a little too fatty. Bo and I had two beers each and had a pleasant conversation. It was an interesting conversation where we talked a lot about where we wanted to go with the next stage of our lives. He is in a pretty tough spot and need to find something relatively stable. The biggest problem is that he still sees finding a job as giving up on his dreams. He doesn’t allow for the possibility of going after his dreams while working. I think once he does have a real job, since he hasn’t held one for any significant time before, that he will see that you can work towards your dreams and work a normal job. I hope he finds something that allows him to do that, but he may just have to settle for something stable to start out and then work towards the job that supports his dreams.
This evening I biked to the Chocolate Garage and had some tasty chocolate. The one I liked the most was a milk chocolate with nibs that I had already bought called The Boss. I didn’t get any, and after tasting some Riley and I went to Philz Coffee and I got a Chai Tea. The Chai there was fantastic.
After coming back Stephanie had already been joined at the Chocolate Garage by Candice and Brian. All of us then went to a pretty tasty place called Curry Up Now. I liked it, but not sure I’d want to go back. I’d prefer Umami over Curry Up Now.
Tina hosted a drinks night at Beachhead last night. It was a rather enjoyable affair, with Wit, Riley, Adam, Tina, Stephanie, and Myself in attendance. There were some really interesting conversations around fonts, Adams prospects in jobs, and core functionality of basic console commands. They pranked Riley by changing his console commands so that ls printed to the screen “I love Orwin” and which would not find the ls file that had caused it. I found it hilarious, but Stephanie wasn’t too interested since she hasn’t ever dealt in console. I broke out a bottle of the really good Riesling Heinz Eiffel, and also tried some of Adam’s Manhattan from Utah. The manhattan was decent, but I still much prefer the Riesling. We ate a bunch of Bolani, and Stephanie put bean curd sauce in with her egg salad tofu to make a splendid mix of flavor and texture. Tonight we can try the bean curd sauce with the spicy tofu, which I think will be even better.
Adam invited Stephanie, Lee, Andrew, and Lee’s gf to brunch today. It was really nice. He served some pastries with strawberry filling kind of stuff, there was jewish style french toast, and bacon. He also served a salad with strawberries, nuts, and cheese. Afterwards we played Glory to Rome about 5 times. I won once, by a landslide. The other times we played were much closer. I really enjoy the game glory to rome, as it is well paced and not that long.
This morning Stephanie and I went to the Chocolate Garage in Palo Alto to do some chocolate tasting and buy the ones we liked. I got some really nice ones including: 2 different makers using the same bag of beans from Piura region in Peru, A dark chocolate with salt and nibs, a pastatio chile salty dark milk chocolate, and a malted milk chocolate. I used the Easter money I got from Mom and Dad for the chocolate, which I think is incredibly appropriate.
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