Steph and I cooked up some bean salad, and we enjoyed the tasty food before going to Farran’s launch party. She has been doing a lot of great work with videos as a side job, and decided to switch to it as a full time job. She had cake pops there and Steph and I went a little crazy over them, especially the red velvet ones. It was very nice.
Steph and I went to dinner in the city to meet with Peter and other of Steph’s friends from the original Beachhead group. We picked up Jeremy and Nancy, and Jeremy drove into the city for us. The Russian Hill area is annoying to drive in, although we did find a really convenient parking spot. We had dinner at a nice German place nearby. The food was very good. The desserts were amazing, we shared some mousse and strudel.
A group got together to go play games at an arcade that had 4D rides. The group was most of Beachhead house including Tina, Amit, Candice, David, Kevin, Steph, and I. The place was pretty small, and the rides had varying levels of complexity. The big one had a really nice, and silly, great wall experience. It had bubbles, and a moving roller coaster like car. They also had some basic games like ski-ball and pac man. We spent a couple hours there, then went to a burger and shake place for dinner. The shake was pretty good, as it was chocolate and butterfinger.
Stephanie and I went to her parents house for Lunch on Sunday, and the food was delicious. The Lees had prepared some fish taco makings, and some cantaloupe for dessert. I really enjoyed the time we spent with them, and they were great to talk to. After lunch we went on a walk at the reservoir, for about 3 miles total. I ended up getting a little sun burn, but it wasn’t that bad. We saw a gigantic fish sitting in a little cove off the reservoir and Mr. Lee wanted to go get his fishing gear.
This was a really nice ending to a great story. I look forward to any new additions to this, but it seems like it could stop here and go no further without much loss. The ending is different from most books in the genre, with the winning character being morally ambiguous leaning towards evil, with the other main characters not caring for him at all. The inquisitor character has the best story by far, and I would really like to hear more of his story in particular.
This was a nice book, that had an exciting story. I really like the messiness of all the characters, where they actually feel real. They have their goals, and their moral failings. The character of Logan Nine Fingers is the most interesting since he has the split personality that has supernatural powers. It is an example of an extreme Jekyll and Hyde.
I enjoyed this book, with the main character being punished for her attempts to help people, and it compounding upon itself. The pilot dichotomy is strange, since there is a hard cutoff. I would expect there to be a bell curve of physical aptitude, but the book make it sound like there are those who have it and those who don’t. I might read more of the series, but it is decently low on the list.
We met with Michael at Nolas for dinner. Peter showed up, but the rest didn’t come for a long while. We decided to head on in and get some dinner, and the food was decent. Eventually Daisy, then Nima and Caryn showed up to hang out. I’ll miss Michael, but we can still have good conversations via email and chat.
Stephanie and I decided to do a hike with a meetup group. We went to Castle Rock State Park to do the hike and the group turned out to be a rather large one. There were a little over 50 people there and most of them were either significantly older than us, or transient foreigners. They were all great people, and most were decent hikers, but we didn’t feel like there was the kind of people that we could be friends with. We got a lot of good suggestions of other meetup groups to try. I also think a hike with 50 people was way too many, and the waiting for the slow people to catch up got annoying towards the end.
The hike was a total of about 8 miles, and had some amazing views.
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