It's an Exciting World

My brother Jeff and Andrew DeRussy came to town to visit me for the weekend.  Andrew got in Friday night, right before I took Steph to the airport.   Saturday morning we played with the cats before picking up my brother, Jeff.  They didn’t really know what they wanted to do, so we played it pretty low key.  We got lunch at my favorite restaurant, Rangoon Ruby, then went to Redwood Coast Cider.  They got the full tasting menu, and really enjoyed it.  We went back to my place and played with VR, FPV drones, and watched youtube.  For dinner we went to Panda Dumpling and had lots of tasty dumplings.  We decided to do an escape room in San Jose, https://quadraescape.com/events/remote-chance-a-cinematic-escape/.  The escape room was well done, but not terribly well explained.  We were ever so close, being one puzzle away from escaping.  We didn’t do much after that, and went to bed early.  They were still mostly on Eastern time.

Sunday I cooked some eggs, and Jeff made some tasty hash browns.  It was especially tasty with orange sauce on it.  We chilled for a bit Sunday morning, then grabbed lunch.  After lunch I drove them to SF, which is a lot more driving that I normally do.  It reminded me of why I hate driving so much.  At least it was only one trip for the both of them.

I’ve been enjoying the time I’ve been getting to spend with Stephanie this week.  She is back in town from China for a bit.

When she got back we had a very lazy weekend together, playing games, cooking, and lazing about.  The game we mainly played together was Fortnite, a base building zombie killing game.  We enjoyed our fire pit, and had some smores.

We got to go on a hike in a mostly empty park named Huddart Park.

And we cuddled kitties.

Lana got cuddles too, it was harder to get pictures of her.

I had a decent weekend with lots of kitties involved.

Friday during the day I went to Jeremy’s place to hang out.  We ended up playing a good bit of Super Smash.  I did better than him on most of the levels, but it was still a great time.

I then joined up with Lindsay and Kevin at their place before heading to dinner at QQ noodle.  Andrew and Debby joined us for dinner, afterwards we went to The Dancing Cat for henna tattoos and playing with cats.  I had a great time there, and had a lot of cats following me around.  One cat was acting like a princess, and she would his at any cat that came near her when she was playing.

The next day I got so many cuddles from my kitties.  Then went to Jeremy’s for some Rock Band.

George hosted karaoke at his place on Saturday, and it was good to be social.  I had a good time, especially with all the Lion King we sung.  I love doing the voices for the stranger characters.  I left a little early as I was loosing my voice and getting really tired for no good reason.  I didn’t want to drive home when too tired.

George organized an escape room that had a different format than we normally experience.   The puzzle was a sequential puzzle which required some backtracking, but the strange part was that it was all part of one giant puzzle.  Normally this group does 8 part puzzles so there is more to do in parallel.  Experienced groups on this should only go with 4 or 5 instead of the 9 we had.  I could see new escape room groups needing the 9 just because there was a ton to keep an eye out for one each play through.  We made it out in 8 loops, which they said was the second best they’ve had.

Afterwards we went to China Live, and had some tasty food.

Andrew and Debby are fostering kittens, and they got a tough batch.  The two they have now are very similar in appearance, with the biggest difference being one has black on its nose.  They both hissed a lot when I tried to touch them, but didn’t stop me or attack me when I did.  They didn’t like being picked up, either.  I got them both in my lap for at least 10 minutes, with one purring pretty loudly once I started petting it all over.

Stephanie invited me to the Mayfield event of a bartending class, specifically about making punch.  The class was informative, but I don’t drink cocktails all that much so I didn’t put any effort into remembering the teaching.  I’ll stick to beer, cider, and wine primarily.  The class was fun, and it was cool to watch the bartenders work.  I also enjoyed the competition portion of the evening, which Jason’s team won.

Later that night I took Steph to the airport for her flight to China.

Stephanie and I went to another pain nite and had a great time.  This one was very close to our place, and we ended up walking.  It was nice for it to be just the two of us.  Steph’s was probably the best painting there.