We went to the farmer’s market yesterday and got a ton of stuff. All of it so far has been tasty. I got a honeycomb there and for some reason I expected it to be crunchy. Of course it wasn’t at all crunchy it was waxy and tasted exactly like honey. I feel kinda stupid for expecting it to be otherwise, but what can you do? I got 10 avocados since they were only $1 each and served 5 of them for the game of thrones watching night. I also got some spicy yuba strips that were sooo tasty. There was a new butternut squash based sauce at bolani, and I ended up getting it. While it is really good, the tomato still goes better with the bolani bread. The pesto is still fantastic with cucumber. A lot of the stalls were missing since it was forecasted as being rainy. Two of the stalls we wanted to go to, the Miso Suke and candied nuts, were among those missing. We got a great haul and I’m looking forward to having some more of the strawberries tonight.
Nick took Stephanie and I to a place called the Chocolate Garage, which is a place for chocolate tasting in Palo Alto. The chocolate there is 60% and higher, with some special milk chocolates. I ended up getting a really good dark chocolate, Dick Taylor’s Madagascar, a good milk chocolate called The Boss, and chocolate covered almonds.
We went here for lunch and it was soooooo good. I’d like to go back here often. I got the Greenbird burger, and it had something called green cheese, which was a pretty tasty sauce. I was slightly disappointed about the green cheese because I thought it would actually be a green slice of cheese.
A group went to the Stanford Theater last night to see North by Northwest. I really enjoy the movie and it is such a precursor to so many other spy movies. Stephanie and I were joined by Bergfeld, Nick, Riley, and Omari. Afterwards we enjoyed some of Oren’s Hummus. It was tasty, but not as good as usual. We should have gotten the hot tomato dish with egg as that is one of the tastiest things. After that we went to the Hookah place and smoked some. The pineapple one was really strong, and the double apple wasn’t that flavorful.
This was just as good as the first book, probably better. I really like the fullness of the story that is given from the books. I still think I’d be completely lost without the TV series. The number of names makes it pretty much impossible to keep track without some kind of mental reference. There are some small differences that are surprising. Also there are some places where the books goes farther than the series and some parts where it isn’t as far along. The pacing in the TV series and books are both good, but the differences are interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing the start of the 3rd season come sunday.
This is a very tasty beer. It has a lot of flavor and isn’t bitter at all. I’d really like to find some more of this. It is a farmhouse saison.
This is a pretty fun game, that lets you munchkin a bit and then randomly makes someone the traitor with superpowers. It is not terribly well balanced, but does have 30 something scenarios that can happen for the traitor coming up.
Bo and I had dinner and beers at The Source. It was nice and we got a lot of talking in. Bo likes the idea of Product Management and I think he could be ok at it if he could keep a cooler head. He likes rushing off into the unknown a little too much for being a good Product Manager on the analytics side. He also needs to spec a bit more than he is used to.
I got the Borek, some mushroom dish with rice. I had the Fish Tale Amber Ale, and it was surprisingly good.
We had some drinks at beachhead last night, and it was nice. Tina, Brian, Steph, and I played some board games. Riley joined us and put Real Steel on, but he is still feeling listless and depressed. Brian brought a very tasty beer, and Tina had a great port, but I don’t remember either of the names. I got Boba from Verde Tea Cafe.
