It's an Exciting World

Tour De Cure

Lindsay was having a Tour de Cure ride with her company. She sent out an email with a donation page and an invite, so I decided to join. Their group was doing a 50K, and since I had to bike there I added another 4.5 miles on top. All told it was about 35 miles that day. I got to see some of the people I worked with previously, and we had a loose group of 4 together. Stephanie and Kevin met us at the finish line, and Steph was nice enough to drive me home, since I was dead tired. blank-50k-2016

At the Finish Line

June 17, 2016 1

Book Club – Daemon

I really enjoyed the discussion on these books. We went to Redwood Coast cidery beforehand. We had a great hang out there, but the only person to make it to both cidery and discussion was Tina. We only had 7 of us for the discussion, but I actually really like that number of people. It gives a lot of viewpoints, and gives everyone a good chance to participate. I’m liking the screening books beforehand. It makes sure that we have both good books and good discussions. Many of the books I’ve been reading have been decent stories, but not great for discussions. Discussion books require a larger set of philosophical concepts compared to a suspenseful story that has twists.

June 13, 2016 0

Rancho San Antonio PG&E

Stephanie and I had a great hike up the PG&E trail at Rancho San Antonio. It was a gorgeous day, and we had plenty of sun screen on. There were a lot of lizards with blue tails that we hadn’t seen before, as well as a lot of wildflowers in bloom. The picture below is from a random bike ride, but you get the idea (lots of flowers). We did the hike a bit faster than expected, and at the very end we saw two deer.

May 31, 2016 0

Castles and Moats

For games night we had a nice game of Castles of Mad King Ludwig with the moats expansion. It was an interesting set of changes, that I didn’t really do much with. I chose the route of ignore the expansion and go for all the bonuses I could. It got me a close second, but Adam was able to use the new expansion to get a very solid first. Tina also used the expansion fully, but didn’t get things to work out well together. Ian was new to it, but he did relatively well.

May 27, 2016 0

Escape the Antique Room

Stephanie, Stephany, Steven, and I went to EscapeSF and did their Escape the Antique Room on Monday.

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We went to dinner at 21st amendment beforehand, and I got some delicious cider and jerk chicken. We grabbed a Lyft over to the EscapeSF location and jumped right into the room. It was really amazing, and the location based puzzles were really fun. The only puzzle we couldn’t do was one that wasn’t clear on how to approach it from the start. We did manage to escape, but needed a clue to get past that point.

May 24, 2016 0

Jeremy’s and Nancy’s Wedding

Stephanie and I stopped by a 24 hour fitness to clean up after the hike, then headed to Jeremy and Nancys’ wedding. It was a nice affair, and the location was picturesque. I knew enough people there that it worked out nicely. We played some croquet, and had some amazing food before heading back home to watch the latest Game of Thrones episode.

May 24, 2016 0

Hiking in Point Reyes

Steph and I went for a fantastic hike in point reyes. We didn’t actually take the stairs down to the beach, but we did get to the stairs there and had nice lunch of yuba strips on a fallen branch. The views were amazing and the idyllic scenes along the trail through bear valley were lovely. The small clearings and creeks were splendid to look at. We also happened to be there with a lot of blooming wild flowers, I stopped counting at 20 different types, and we passed many more on the hike than that.

May 24, 2016 1

Lunch with the Lees

Stephanie and I had lunch with her parents on Saturday, which was nice. We went to a small place called Lyfe Kitchen in downtown Palo Alto. This was a nice place with reasonable prices. The food was tasty and healthy. The Lees seemed like they were in decent health and happy.

Before lunch we stopped by the chocolate garage. It was nice to be back, and we finished off the prepaid amount I had put in. We have a lot of chocolate to make it through now, so we’ll have to find people to share them with.

After Lunch we stopped by home and milk pail, then went to San Carlos for some truffle oil at Olive Crush. We ended up also getting brined olives and garlic. They were tastier than any olives I’ve had before, and even Steph liked the olives. The brined garlic was amazing. We then stopped by the Redwood Coast Cidery, and had some amazing cider. Stephanie was nice enough to drive so I could have more than one. I started out with the Biker’s and then got a KLR. Both very tasty.

May 24, 2016 1

Poker at Andrew’s

I went over to Andrew’s place on Friday night last week for some poker. I got beaten pretty soundly. The most frustrating losses were Debby notching me twice. It was an interesting setup, and I was ready to head out pretty early since I had been working extra time all week. The kitties came to hang out for most of the game, which was unexpected and nice.

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