Jeremy invited Steph, Andrew, and I to the lecture on the animatronics of the droids in Star Wars. There wasn’t nearly as much talk about the animatronics as it was just the one guy’s history in the movie business. I was also expecting a minor demonstration since this was the guy who used to go around giving demonstrations, but sadly he just talked and showed a few pictures/videos. The majority of the talk was focused on his recent career. The exhibit had most of the highlights and a lot of educational material that related to the specific thing being shown. This included city planning in the city exhibits, robots around the droids, health care around the medical bot. It was enjoyable, but somewhat smaller than what we expected. Before the lecture we ate at Sakoon, which was tasty, but not particularly memorable.
Steph and I went up to SF to have dinner with Nick at an Ethiopian place near where he lives called “Moya.” The place looked really nice, but was closed for the long weekend. I’m guessing it is family run, and when the family is away they just close up. We drove to a place a little bit away that served Eritrean food. The difference between Eritrean and Ethiopian is minimal, so we were satisfied with it. It was hard to tell if the differences were because of the slightly different origins, or from the differences between the two restaurants. We showed up at the right time, because when we left there was quite a line. After dinner we stopped by a place near Golden Gate Park called Purple Cow. It is a tiny boba shop, but some of the best Boba I’ve had. If I’m ever back close to it I’ll surely stop by for a boba tea. We then stopped by Nick’s place and played a round of Mario Kart. The computer won, but just barely. Nick seems to be liking the city when he takes advantage of it, but as expected he isn’t doing nearly as much there as he had previously expected.
Steph and I met up with Tina, Adan, Lee, Kerry, Andrew, Candice, and others at Rabbit’s Foot Meadery. I had a sip of one of the drinks and it was decent. I think I got Lee curious about the product we were making and hope to get his feedback on it. The atmosphere of the place was nice, although a little loud. Since we went in the middle of the day it wasn’t terribly crowded, but it wasn’t empty by any means. The place was rather nice, and even though I’m not drinking anymore, I wouldn’t mind going back to hang out there.
Steph decided that she wanted to do one of her Japanese candies. So we looked at the ones she had left and decided on a little bento box that she had done before. They were all very tasty.
We went to a burrito place for dinner with Brian and some of his friends. We knew a few of them, but didn’t know most. The place was on the same block as La Victoria, so we stopped by and got 6 things of orange sauce. The Iguana place had it’s own orange sauce which had a lot more flavor and spice, but wasn’t as creamy. We didn’t like it as much since it overpowered everything else, and we were happy that we got so much of the La Vic orange sauce.
Steph, Adam, Dan, and I played the expansion of Suburbia. The new tile format, borders, was interesting, but it became pretty unusable pretty quickly if the tiles didn’t match up with what you needed. The first game ended badly for me since I chose poorly on one tile. That pretty much ended my game. Steph won it by a lot, with Adam and I tieing. The second game was Adam and myself, and it turned out much better. I was able to pull out a decisive victory with 151 points, just off the end of the board. The game is getting more complicated with the new tiles, and keeping track of what changes on your board when other things happens is getting to be cumbersome.
This was my favorite of the shadows series. The setting and interactions are so different. The book is also shorter, and it makes me look forward sooo much to the two series coming back together. I enjoy all the contrary information provided by this book about the Hive Queens.
Lana is a hilarious cat and was attacking her own tail today. She got it pretty good too.
This book had a lot of great suggestions about leadership and how to get people to do the things you want them to do. This does a lot of good explanations on the how to do it, but the part that I tend to struggle with is the internal conflict of whether what I’m trying to get someone to do something that isn’t good for them. I’ll have to learn to convince myself of the great things that people will get from helping me.
