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.
George was kind enough to host a large cooking experiment, of many different types of hand pies. We had two types of dough and about 15 types of filling. The savory fillings were mushroom, curry chicken, veggie sausage, berbere beef, cheddar jalapeno beef, bacon cheddar potato, rosemary chicken, pear, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, and ham and cheese. We also tried a dough with sourcream instead of water, but I couldn’t tell the difference. The pies mostly came out really well, and the orange sauce picked up the slack for any pies that were either too dry or too bland. The mushroom and curry chicken were the favorites. Steph had gotten back early that morning, so she wasn’t able to join for much of the cooking, but she showed up as the last pies were coming out of the oven.
Yutong and Paul helped out a lot and brought some really tasty food. Adisa showed up and helped out as well. Steph, Tina, George, and I played a round of Terraforming Mars with the game going much more slowly than it usually does. Both Tina and Steph were not thinking quickly as their jet lags from being in the south west Pacific was still pretty strong. George ended up winning by a lot, hitting a solid score of 100.
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.
I organized an outing to Taco Bell for lunch, with the friends who appreciate the finer points of fast food. We got a great pic of us chowing down:
It was really nice of them to join me.
I took a quick trip to Atlanta to see family and had a decent time. I took my parents to dinner for Mother’s Day at Bar Bacoa. It was a nice tapas restaurant that they both seemed to like. It is in the restaurant area they frequent, so hopefully it will be added to their rotation. I spent Friday evening with Jeff and we hung around his place, went on a nice walk and he tried out my vr game. I hung out at Kim’s place most of the time, and got to see lots of creatures in her yard: frogs, deer, a fox. We went to see Endgame together, which was my second time seeing it. I still really enjoyed it. We all got together on Sunday night and had a big family dinner, which was nice.
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