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the slanted door

in what can only be described as highly unusual for us, christi and i went into the city last night and dined at the slanted door. i was telling christi that jenny and i went and ate at the ferry building before and i think that the slanted door has a cafe-like fast food to go stand in the ferry building. i told her that i thought it was called “the slanted cupboard”. it turns out it is called “out the door”. i liked the name that i remembered wrong better than the actual name.

this was our first time eating at the slanted door. the food was good, but not mind-blowingly great. portions were actually pretty big though, i certainly was expecting much smaller portions of food. my favorite dish was probably the lemongrass chicken that we had special ordered. it’s usually only on their lunch menu, but the chef made an exception and made it for us for dinner. it was fantastic!

the rest of the food was pretty good, but not ravingly so. i liked how tender the rib eye was, i liked the rice cakes, i liked the shrimp, and i sort of liked the spinach dish we got.

dessert was pretty good too, the beignets were amazing. it was freezing outside, i was hoping that it would be warmer after last week’s heat wave, so walking around outside was not much of an option.

twitter tools hiccup

looks like twitter tools might not like not having a tweet a day. oh well. i’ve decided that i’m going to try to keep the blog more blog-like and only have weekly updates of tweets in blog format.

there’s been a lot going on lately, but i have just been too tired and too busy to sit down and blog. but let me see if i can recap:

koda is going to puppy training class again. he’s doing better this time around, i think mostly because kiara isn’t there. i swear, when those two dogs are together, they stop listening to the rest of the world.

i have started to fix things again around the house. it almost seems like things break faster around the house than i can fix them, but i will get it all done, i swear! there’s a big to do list:
1) replace all door knobs in the house.
2) install new faucets in master and guest bathrooms.
3) install new overhead light in master bath. it’s been nearly two years, i just gotta go and do it. hopefully not electrocute myself in the process. the breakers are SO far from the upstairs…
4) landscape. ugh, this has been haunting me for a long time now. i have hated our front yard for a long time. did you know that the city of san jose has passed an ordinance that makes it illegal to water your yard when it is daylight?
5) repaint the front door. the problem with this is that you have to keep the door open ALL day while the paint dries. gotta wake up super early in the morning to get it done right. i’m trying to see if there’s a way i can screen off the front door so that we don’t get a zillion flies in the house while the door is drying…
6) make that MAME arcade already! where is it going to go??

so yeah, there’s a lot to do. i’m dropping all of my nights of volleyball for a while. with work and everything else to do, i need some time to just get stuff done.

i spent about an hour last weekend hacking away at a dead tree in front of our house. i got about half of it cleared away and decided to call it quits. i think i need a saw. i’m about ready to tear apart everything else in the front yard, but i have no idea what to replace it with. anybody have any landscaping ideas?

angels and demons

i went to watch angels and demons today. the movie was alright. the pace of the movie was definitely faster than the da vinci code and i felt that it kept my attention pretty well throughout the movie.

there were some inconsistencies with the book, but for the most part i didn’t feel that they took away from the story too much. i think it deserves more than the 38% rating that is being given by rotten tomatoes.

i still haven’t seen star trek yet and i don’t think that there are many people who want to see the movie who hasn’t seen it already. maybe i’ll make a go of it myself during the week some day. =P

at the office

so here i am at 12:45PM on a saturday in the office with the QA team. they are testing out the drop that we have handed off to them. i woke up a little past 8AM to start work on this and we’re nearing the end of testing now.

i’m pretty beat, but am happy that things seem to be working for the most part. i’m about ready to go eat lunch and crash to sleep. the big question about lunch is where to go? i don’t want to go to lunch nearby since i always eat lunch here so i think it’s time to venture off to find somewhere good to eat.