Numbers: 30 hours in San Francisco

1. This past weekend, I took a solo trip to the Bay to check out my peeps and see how Gustav was getting along. I ended up spending about 30 hours in the Bay.
2. I took the one hour flight from LAX at 10:30 or so Saturday morning and arrived at GUS's house around 12:30, thanks to Scooter who swooped me up from the airport on his way into town.
3. We grabbed some lunch around the corner from her spot at La Taqueria on Mission and 24th. She and I split a chicken burrito and a carne asada taco. The taco made me weep.
4. We then meandered to Rosamunde to sit outdoors and have a couple of beers.  
5. At that point, one of my other all time favorite people, Jojina showed up and then we split to GUS's to get ready. I hadn't kicked it with Jojo in years. She came to NYC once a couple years back.
6. We went over to Oi's house near pacbell and shot the shit for awhile. A couple of other dear, dear friends showed up and so we got to hang out with them and their little buddy.
7. Then out! First to Laszlo Bar, (watch that link, the music is loud!), for just one, then out to dinner at Nombe, where we ate everything on the menu. Did we order chicken hearts? Yes. Did we eat pork belly? Yes. Was there beef cheeks involved? Indeed. Were there japanese craft beers on tap? Indeed there were. Another couple of pals showed up for that.
8. And then it was time to go out. Hahahahahahahaha. We hit up a number of places which I think will remain locked in the vault for now. We may or may not have ended the night with bacon wrapped hot dogs. $3 each. 

Dude! I'll have to tell you about the next day next time! I got to get some work done today!!

Weekend pictures

This weekend, I spent 30 hours in the Bay Area. Which meant I had to leave my buddy for a bit. I didn't like that too much. Neither did she! But she had a good time with her papa. This is her in her Spring Outfit.

Here's Scooter, when we had lunch at the Taqueria down the street from Gus's house.

This is my Sunday morning breakfast. Called The Sandhya! No kidding!

Me and Gustav on Sunday morning!

Nice picture of a random mission bodega.

Bloody Mary at Zeitgeist Sunday morning.

Twin trying to apply a tattoo that was 20 years old.

Trading cards, like close encounters of the third kind, wrestlemania, Bill & Teds...

Me, in San Francisco.

Twin Sandwich take 1.

Twin Sandwich take 2.

Candy from the early 90s for the plane ride home. 

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Such random pictures, I know! And what happened to Saturday night, you might ask yourself. If you do in fact ask that, you wouldn't be the only one!

More details tomorrow on Numbers - 30 hours in San Francisco edition.

Buddy in the bath

Haiku Friday

Refrigerator

has just arrived from Best Buy.

Should keep it all cold.

Delivery guy

was the same one who brought the

new dryer we bought.

He talks without pause.

From the moment he knocks to

the moment he goes. 

Numbers!

1. It has been a busy, busy time, ya'all! This past weekend we took the two hour drive down to San Diego and back again. It was terrific. Went to lunch with my familials, made a nice dinner, played with the niece and nephews, buddy got to see her aunties and Grama and Grampa. Muy bien.
2. Sunday we bought a fridge! Ha! We're just like home owners, without a mortgage. BFF was kind enough to give us a fridge that took us through the first 8 months of living here, but the freezer part just sorta stopped working. So, we got a new one that will be delivered on Friday. 
3. I start working at UCLA full time in two weeks, so I've been sort of slacking on job number two in favor of getting stuff done that I won't be able to do once I'm in an office every day. Like going to Costco on a Monday afternoon instead of on the weekend like everyone else. It's been great, but I can't bill for that time so that's not super awesome. I think it's worth it though.
4. I will be relieved to be down to one job. This has been a whole lot of hustle. It's been a terrific experience, and I still have plenty of work to do on job number two, but it is going to be put on hold until August when I am done with UCLA. I will still have a meeting every two months with USC to keep on their radar screen, so I'll be doing a little bit of work for those, but not very much.
5. It was forty degrees last night! Brrrr. But it's nice again today, probably nearing seventy. 

Happy birthday, MIL!

Happy birthday, MIL! I hope your day is great!! I don't have any super recent pics of you, but here's one of buddy where she is almost certainly thinking about your birthday.

Love
cod

Haiku Friday

Thinking about you.

New York City. How are you?

Dear friends of mine there.

Furmaners, of course.

Nancy, Dave and Kim, Nina.

All my mommie pals.

It's very nice here.

That doesn't mean I miss you

any less. Really.