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.
I grabbed dinner with Nima, Caryn, and Michael at Mardini’s Deli Cafe. The food was very good, and the conversation was excellent. We talked about the automation of life, and how that relates to the ability to express yourself, especially when relating to others. We didn’t come to any solid conclusions except that more automation would be nice, and that we look forward to when we can easily have more things taken care of for us without thinking about them.
We biked to Palo Alto to meet up with some of Steph’s MIT friends at Patxi’s Pizza for dinner and got some tasty deep dishes. Then we stopped by Cream for desert. Two of the four friends live very close by, but they don’t come over much. They were pretty cool guys, so it would be nice to see them around more.
Steph and I drove up to Daily City to have lunch with Lisa at Banana Island. It was very tasty and we got a ton of roti. We got the crispy type to dip in peanut sauce, the type stuffed with egg, and the type stuffed with preserve. All of it was delicious. I also got a tofu dish to have something more substantial.
I biked over to Scratch for dinner with Adam, Andrew, Lee, Stephanie, Cynthia, Jeremy, Brian, and one of Brian’s friends. The food was decent, but as has seemed to be happening lately the service was very slow. We ended up getting served by a bus boy since they couldn’t find the waiter. I thought the lamb was tasty, and I enjoyed the been dip, but the cobbler was terrible. I was very hungry so I ended up finishing it anyway.
We met with Jeremy and his gf at Garden Fresh for some tasty food. The dinner took a lot longer than expected from slow service, but it was pretty tasty. We then went to check the line at Cream, which was far too long. We decided scoop would be a better choice and got some tasty liquid nitrogen ice cream there. Riley and Jimmy were out on a man date and decided to say hi. We invited them back to beachhead where we watched lots of random youtube videos.
Sunday we went to the Songkran festival in San Jose, and met there Jeremy, Nick, Wit, and Riley. The food was pretty good, and the Thai ice tea from the temple was delicious. There wasn’t much else to do there, so we ended up sitting in the beer garden for a bit, while not liking the music. The speakers were bad and the singing voices weren’t particularly good either. We then went back to beachhead and played primordial soup. It was a decent game, but there was a lot of uncertainty about what to do exactly.
I quickly biked from the end of the magic draft over to Steph’s so that we could go meet Jeremy for dinner at Shezan. We got the things in the orange sauce as usual, and it was absolutely delicious as usual. We sat around and talked for a bit, and then headed back to Beachhead to try to get some work done.
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