weather
Look at the weather for this week!!!
Great, just great.
It is kind of pretty and blue though, the whole panel:D This is a Yahoo! Widget I’m using btw, just tells me stuff on my desktop.
Update:
The walk home today was really windy and rainy. Before halfway through, my pants were pretty wet already. My socks were soaked by the end.
And my umbrella was flipped backwards multiple times and broke. Craaaaaazy. That weather widget wasn’t kidding about the rain.
On a completely separate note, happy birthday, Julia! :)
Another Visit
Going to visit the in-laws for the weekend. After work today, we’re going to the airport. Doooood, February has been short, but busy.
Weather’s been gorgeous here, into the high 60s (°F). But SoCal is even warmer, low 70s everyday; I’m tempted to wear flip flops from summer:) Oh wait, Sunday it’s supposed to rain in Berkeley, no flip flops:p Gawd, all this planning ahead, so unlike me!
Firefox
Normally, I don’t like to get into browser wars. Whatever you like is fine. I like firefox, but you know, whatevs. But CT mentioned to me today that the sidebar gets pushed waaaay down in IE, which she uses at work! Also, ugly. Ack! People, tell me this stuff!!! I should’ve checked, but I use IE so little, I forgot. Anyhows, I fixed the sidebar, sort of. It shows up on the side anyhows:p But the rest of it, eh, still ugly. Also, maybe it’s this theme, Lucid, lots of complicated css. Also it may be because I edited it. And I’ve been known to edit things out of order.
So yeah, I added a little firefox button:
Just something to think about:p Really, it’s good stuff. Also, maybe I’ll look for a new theme sometime.
Update: Speaking of Firefox, read this on Boing Boing today, quite funny:)
Attn Allison DuBois
Whaaaaa? Did I hear that right? Did the newscaster just say, “Psychics are helping police with the search.” ???????
I dunno if you’ve heard of this, but a whippet named Vivi ran off after the Westminster Dog Show as she was being loaded on a plane for home, and hasn’t been found.
Geez though, psychics?! Gawd, I sorta hope I heard wrong.
Visit
This weekend, I didn’t do nothing! I can’t take too much credit; Yan came for a quick visit, in on Friday, gone on Monday sort of thing. Too bad the weather wasn’t like last weekend. This weekend was cold, so Yan had to bring sweaters. I took like 100 photos, but surprisingly (or not:p) a lot of them are food, oops.
Well anyhows, on Friday, after work, we all met up at Kaygetsu in Menlo Park for kaiseki, which was ever so delicious. My favorite course out of all of them was probably the starter, but maybe because I was relatively hungrier for that course:)
Well actually that anago, jelly, and quail egg thing was pretty amazing, so maybe it’s not just cos it was the first course. Mmmmm…
After dinner, we hung out at misa’s — have I mentioned their hot tub? Yeah, I must’ve:) It’s a lovely hot tub. We stayed in there ’til neb came to remind us that we should maybe not stay in the hot tub for hours, which evidently you’re not supposed to do. Go fig!
The next day we woke up for dim sum in Oakland Chinatown — no photos, just lots of eating:) We went to Oakland Chinatown cos it’s where I know, not cos necessarily there aren’t restaurants elsewhere. Actually, if anyone has a fave dim sum place in the Bay Area, I would love to hear all about it.
Then we played Scrabble.
I won!!! Oh yes! I actually sort of think it was partially luck. Just for example, I started with an X and made “AXON” which gets double points while Yut ended with both the Q and the Z at the very end! But still, I was pleased:) Well duh, I guess:p
Saturday night we went to EZ5 in the city, cos it’s where Al and Julie take us, and we like it, nice atmosphere:) It was a close call, our making it out anywhere. It was a cold night and we were in our heated room watching Olympics and almost didn’t make it out, especially cos Yan thinks Shani Davis is hot and really wanted to watch his race. But we managed to get out, and a few drinks later, I know I wasn’t cold, that’s for sure.
Flaming lemon drops, taken by misa, who really knows how to take photos beyond point and shoot and hope:p
Sunday we were gonna go to Sonoma, but things didn’t quite work out. Yan and misa came to pick me up and we went to get some boba tea drinks and get misa a salad from Intermezzo. Then we went to In-N-Out cos dude, you can’t come visit from the East Coast and not have In-N-Out:) Then we started for Sonoma. But we realized we were so not going to make it, so we decided to try for Napa instead. Btw, I suck at directions. All I could tell misa about the location of the Pinole In-N-Out was that it was near a Best Buy:p Then my hint about where to turn off the 80 to get to Napa was that there’s an amusement park near there. All true, but not too helpful, unfortunately:D
So we got to Napa at like 5pm, by which time most wineries are closed. Luckily, right next door to the Napa Visitor’s Center is this tasting room (forgot name), so we went there instead:) Yan ended up with a 2004 Goosecross Napa Valley Pinot Noir and Chenin Blanc (forget the info for the Chenin Blanc), and two bottles of 2003 Dusinberré Tesoro Del Sole dessert wine, misa with the same Pinot Noir and Chenin Blanc, and me with the Pinot Noir and the dessert wine. I thought the Pinot Noir, Goosecross AmerItal (mix of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon, I think?), Chenin Blanc, and the dessert wine were the best of the wines we tasted, but I decided that I don’t drink enough wine to justify buying four wines all at once when I normally buy $10 and below wines. I just don’t think my palate is that discerning:p Although clearly, the pinot noir was good cos everyone else thought so too:)
After we got back, we hung out for a while and then we went to Kirala for dinner:)
We got an assortment of sushi, including amaebi, which btw, the heads were extra good:) while misa and Yan both got Chirashi Sushi (I think that’s what it’s called).
After that we hung out for a while and then Yan and misa went back to the South Bay. Was a fun weekend, I thought — hope Yan thought so, too:p
misa posted up a couple of other photos from the weekend, and if Yan does too, I’ll update:)
Update: Yan posted a few photos too:)
Tricky!
We’re watching Men’s Snowboard Cross make its Olympic debut. Snowboard Cross (is that the best they could do, name-wise?) is basically racing on snowboards on a course, looks like 4 at a time. But doooood, it could be so much better!!! Have these people never played SSX?!?! I mean, they have these courses where the lines are drawn into the course, and there’s these hills, these great hills! And instead they try to minimize their air cos the whole point is to be fast. Talk about lost opportunity. Is it too much to ask to see some tricks, and cute outfits, and elbowing, and TRICKY!!! Set to cool music of course.
Btw, normally, I like this stuff where there’s no subjective, or semi-subjective judging, just the clock, and this board cross stuff is cool for that reason. It’s just, couldn’t they add a sport, tricky snowboard cross???
Happy Valentine’s Day
We’re not much into Valentine’s Day, but we like to do a little something. This year, Yut got me purple irises and red tulips:)
And we like to try to cook something we haven’t tried before. Well I mean, we gotta eat:p Last year we cooked a bouillabaisse on the Sunday before, but this year we’re just going to roast a whole chicken using these herbs CT got us at the farmer’s market. I dunno, I love food, but we didn’t have anything complicated we really felt like trying. It’s smelling pretty good right now though:)
In Which I Win TV Watching Gold
Been watching a lot of Olympics lately. Basically, if there’s something on TV, we have the TV on on the side at least. It’s been a lot of TV, maybe more than usual! (I know, shock and awe.) I usually like to watch these international sporting spectacles, they’re fun. Although the Winter Games are not very international, I know.
Like right now, I know I should go to sleep, but I CAN’T STOP WATCHING CURLING. It’s a bunch of women (well okay only 8, 4 each for Canada vs USA) wearing bowling shoes, carrying Swiffers, shuffling rocks with handles across the ice, but somehow it’s pretty compelling. Or is this just cos I’m crazy? Still, even this sport illustrates the differences between the haves and the have-nots of the world and the general exclusivity of the Winter Olympics, pretty well: that granite rock can cost like $500!!!
Btw, I wish NBC would cover the Olympics better. I know that figure skating, snowboarding, and speed skating are the big sellers (I can tell cos that’s most of what they show during prime time), but on their other channels, how hard can it be to show some of the other events live? Like on USA, it’s like a Law & Order rerun channel, why can’t they show more Olympics? And I watch Law & Order reruns! (Sometimes, but not now, in case that’s not clear:p)
Also, some of the commentators are useless, never say anything critical or helpful. Just stuff like, “Well that was a pretty good run, let’s see how the judges score it.” Blech, thanks for NOTHING!
Funny Videos
I dunno how many of you actually look at my del.icio.us, but for those of you who don’t (it’s not that worth looking at:p), this was too funny!
The characters are from World of Warcraft, but the song is from Avenue Q on Broadway, which I didn’t know ’til CT told me:)
