It's an Exciting World

Adam and I had an early morning paddle on a Tuesday.  We met at my place at 5:30 am and headed to the spot we had gotten out last time, Fisherman’s Point.  It was empty when we got there at 6am, but people started showing up before we got in the water.  We had smooth waters all the way to Hunter’s Point, at which time we got some really strong currents coming into the bay on a rising tide.  We made it past the point and tried to take out right there, but a security guard said no.  We kept on to a small park another mile away.  We got out of the water around 11am, and went about 12 miles over 4.5 hours.

Adam organized a group of people to go to Grease at Mt. Tam. We met up at the park and ride station, and headed to the top. Theoretically Riley and Rong said they would come, but we thought the odds they would show up were long. Adam brough a great selection of cheese, and Tina brough a spread of fruits.

Riley and Rong eventually got there, and we watched the show.  It was well done, and the ASL guys were hilarious to watch.  Especially when the songs were using non-words.

We headed down to a small restaurant, but Tina, Amit, Steph, and myself were ready to get home.  We had a half hour wait and decided to head out.

We joined DALK at Secret’s lair. The movie, The Illustrated Man, was pretty bad. None of the characters made any sense. Secret was being very territorial, although she didn’t actually go after any of us. I didn’t want to man handle her so I moved to the other side of the room instead.

We celebrated our one year as a company. I took Caltrain to Bart then a Lyft. I got there just after time, which turned out pretty well. Steph was at a dive training that morning, so she didn’t join. All the members were there and three SO’s joined. We set up in a small field next to the archery range, and it was perfect for some bacci ball. A few people went with Steven to shoot archery, and I took a short nap after eating way too much. I woke up and ate more, and we had some toasts to the company. We are feeling good about where we are as a company, and look forward to having the next year celebration as a more opulent affair. Steph came to pick me up and we headed back down to the peninsula.

George hosted a grilled cheese festival.  Steph and I prepped by making two cheese blends.  We had to use a special recipe for blending hard cheeses with some gelatin to make a melty cheese that tastes good.  We made so many different types, and George was kind enough to man the kitchen for it.  All of them were tasty, which is to be expected with the amount of cheese and butter we were using.  My favorite was the pepper jack with tomato and avocado.  We also played some Crawl, which was fun for the first two playthroughs, but I didn’t really feel like playing it again.

Adam and I did a small kayak to get to the put in point closest to SFO. getting out on the rocks was a little awkward, but not too bad. The seas were glassy smooth and the views were nice as we went around kayote point. Out of all of our kayaks, this was the least eventful.  We only went about 3 miles in a little over an hour.

We grabbed some lunch and headed over to Tina’s for some Feast for Odin. Tim won, but I had a pretty nice engine going. I had to head out for a date night with Steph, and Amit took over for another round.

Steph and I joined people at George’s for some karaoke on Friday evening. We had a two birthdays to celebrate and three cakes. I got to sing one song with Sam, who collected on his GoT deadpool. Lindsay and George did a depressing duet, but did it very well.  Steph and I ended up leaving pretty early.

I went to George’s for games on my birthday.

We had dinner at a place none of us had been before, Merit Vegan.  It was pretty good and I’d like to see it added to the restaurant rotation for Wednesdays.

We played some stone age, and I didn’t pull of the harder variant of the starve your people strategy.  I still did well despite that, but not anywhere near the other players.

George bought a birthday cake for me, which was much more than I was expecting for my birthday.  Yutong was also nice enough to pick it up.