A lotta fondue and chardonnay at Fondue Fred's with Seth and Alex (apparently reasonably authentic), followed by some Dominion at his place.
Had lunch with JT -- good to catch up after missing a chance or two to see him. I found lunch surprisingly relaxing for some reason. I also got to try Golden Star, the Vietnamese place beloved by coworkers that I'd never visited. The curry vermicelli was okay (a lot for $7).
SMS team two new team member special power Tonga Room dinner bonanza! Tiki places are awesome, especially famous ones you thought were long since closed.
Grilled portobello. Would have been better with bread, but we were out and I had the afternoon to myself after playing Dominion in the park and dropping Alex off at yoga. Finished a blog post and a Dresden Files DVD and made a spreadsheet -- good day.
Team lunch at Shan Dong. Great success. They really do serve the best Chinese food (the handmade sesame noodles and the sauce with the buns is particularly incredible). Everyone liked it and almost everyone loved it, too.
Spent a few hours working together on our 2009 photo book, then grabbed some tasty pizza at Pizza My Heart in Emeryville. Finished the night with a movie (Princess and the Frog, pretty good), and now heading home.
Philly cheese steaks and three games of Dominion on a nice Valentine's Day afternoon in Crocker Park.
Colin and Liz took us to the pickup party at Hop Kiln Winery. Delicious meatballs (we nearly had a contest) and other food, and some very good wine on a very pretty property. Afterward, we took a way windy road to a random state park filled with some amazing redwoods. Good times!
Chinese buns, a good snack for the road to wine country. The sesame buns were really good.
Question: will I ever get tired of stirfrying stuff and adding it to macaroni and cheese?
Answer: no!
Nepalese food after a very aggressive Swedish massage at a new-seeming place on Albany. The staff was insanely attentive (we were the last guests there by the end), and the food was quite good for an otherwise unassuming place. I was pretty happy with my Sherpa-inspired noodle dish. Afterward, we went home and I did work on the weekend's contest project for Context.
Leftover cheeseburger and chicken wings -- food of the post-(post-Hackathon)-slumber gods.
Late night getting shit done at work => mushroom burger and happily spicy wings at Fentons with Alex.
I made Brussels sprouts with a coconut curry sauce and some Indianish flatbreads for dinner. I figured after six solid hours of yoga, he'd appreciate some new recipes. The sprouts were tender and tasty and the curry was almost right (a bit bland) and the flatbreads were hot and good and gratifyingly demystified for me. I spent the day coding (I learned jQuery plugins!) and after dinner we played a round of Dominion, then I went to the city to watch Inglourious Basterds with Raph and co.
After a long day of coding with friends, Seth, Alex, and I remained and went for Neecha Thai. I got the Pad Makua, which was good, and we split an awesome spicy deep fried tofu appetizer. Now we're headed home to play ominion. Huzzah!
After a bunch of cleaning, I took Alex out to Khana Peena; way too much food in the okra-based dinner I had. Good, tho. They'd closed the outside seating, unfortunately, so we sat inside near the surprisingly erotic pictures and talked tomorrow and the like.
Lunch with Rishi at Chez Carla. Really good spicy chicken sandwich (though not spicy). Good to catch up; it's been a busy week.
