Category Archives: Food

San Francisco

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I am in San Francisco. It was a rather frustrating trip here, but has been a fun time thus far (due, in no small part, to the holiday today).

Travelwise, I spent most of yesterday on planes. Got into San Francisco about 30 minutes late, and had some slight panic when I made it to the bus stop at 12:16, with the 292 scheduled to arrive at 12:15. Fortunately, it was a little late, and I barely made it on… which was fortunate, because BART had stopped running and the next bus was at 1:15 AM. Made it to the hotel at around 1:30 and managed to get some sleep. Meh.

Jeremy, Shawn, Ian, and I spent the day wandering San Francisco for Unpresidents’ Day.
What is Unpresidents’ Day? I’ll let the video tell you. (NSFW for language.)

Video editing done by Jeremy. My DSLR apparently delivers decent quality audio, despite all the background traffic.

There were also tasty Mission burritos (oh how I missed you) and Korean food at Stone (highly recommended).

Mark and Tim playtested People Wars for me, and it seemed to go well. It looks like attacking and tasks are mostly balanced now (I worry a bit about attacking being overpowered, actually, because of the constant difficulty of task playing, but lower difficulty as the game progresses of using more powerful attacks), but the main issue is (as I suspected) with the limited pool of task cards. This will have to be remedied before the game is released.

Now I should sleep so I can go to work tomorrow. Yay work.

Apples!

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60 apples for $16.
Sooo many apples!

(Only 52 apples are pictured because Owen already took 8.)
Simmons Farm is pretty awesome. (Also apparently not possessive, like you’d expect.)

Ugh

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Today’s terrifying thing is these new Goldfish S’Mores.

Not sure what I was thinking in buying them. I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.
They’re a mix of honey graham cracker goldfish, chocolate graham cracker goldfish, and tiny marshmallow goldfish like the kind you find in scary children’s cereal. (I was expecting marshmallow-flavored goldfish, which would have been slightly less scary.)

Ugh.

Banananana Muffins

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I made muffins! They are pretty tasty!

2 bananas
3/4 c sugar
1 egg
1/3 c vegetable oil
1/8 c orange juice
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1.5 c flour
pinch of salt

Mash bananas, mix with sugar, egg, oil, and juice. Add dry ingredients. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.

Mmmm muffins.

Food

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Life has been eventful lately. I’ve been neglecting posting photos, but that’s more because I’ve packed away my old laptop and do not currently have access to Photoshop. Galleries of photos will be forthcoming once I am in Pittsburgh and situated and have a new computer (because resizing hundreds of photos is no fun without batch processing).

Friday was a trip to Mountain View for dinner at New Mongolian BBQ, followed by a trip to Dan’s for games.
Saturday was spent wandering… we headed to Stanford to take photos on campus. Afterward was an impromptu pool party at Katrina’s apartment.
Sunday was spent in San Francisco packing and walking places with Ian (Costco pizza and gelato for lunch!) before Tres Agaves dinner with Mark and Ian.
Monday had a random “we converted to Dell boxes and Linux yay” party at work on the beautiful 42nd floor. They raffled away Dell Minis. I didn’t win one, but I will probably end up getting something similar anyway.
Today was awesome dinner at EAT which featured an amazing salmon and shrimp dish, followed by the most amazing nectarines and plums I’d ever had anywhere (never mind the other parts of the dish that were just as amazing). Afterward there was hot tubbing at Bayside. I will miss having a hot tub.

Good food is one of those things that I should indulge in more often. It’s really enjoyable and going with the right people makes it an awesome experience too.




Tomorrow is my last day in San Francisco. Scary.