4 posts tagged “san francisco”
Hot: 42 inch plasma in my hotel room.
Not: Rachel Ray on the food network.
This has been my longest quiet spell since i started using vox, so here's what's been going on (in my longest post ever!):
9/6: i turned 30!
9/9: we had a fun party at our house, with all of my family coming from their various homes on the east coast, and all of brooke's family coming from in-state, as well as a handful of friends. My brother's wife is pregnant (#2), yay! thanks everyone for coming!
9/11-9/15: busy as a beaver preparing for DEMO and our vacation..
vacation
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9/16: drove down to portland. stayed at the jupiter, hung out at the doug fir.. They have tasty mint juleps.
9/17: the traditional stopping at the trees of mystery to take a picture with babe the blue ox's balls..
9/17: drove to "willits, ca".. we were planning on camping somewhere north of there, but it was so dark with no cars around that we got creeped out and kept driving until we found the first town with a non-Bates Motel place to stay.
9/18-9/21: inn at occidental, occidental ca. A very small and quiet town in sonoma county, but pretty convenient to both the coast and the wineries. relaxing!
9/20: drove to Napa for the day.. Went to COPIA, which I thought was a really fun museum. The restaurant there (Julia's Kitchen) was really tasty.
The last time we were in Napa was 9/11/2001.. Today, we went to Frank Family Vineyards, which is where we spent a good part of that day. It's funny how much many little details i remember from that day, and how being there brought them all back out.
9/21: drove to L.A. Stopping in San Francisco to have some Burma Superstar, yum!
9/21-9/23: L.A. stayed at the W in westwood, ate, drank, shopped, walked around,etc.. highlight: DELICIOUS burgers at The Counter in Santa Monica. lowlight: $80+ for room service breakfast!!
work
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I'll be pretty busy the next week or so, but will hopefully be all amped up and posting whenever i get a chance!
San Francisco
My first day in SF was stress-city, as I tried to figure out what I was going to do for a presentation for my meeting the following day. The highlight of the day was going to Burma Superstar for dinner. The food was very tasty, and I wish I could have tried more of the menu. Not quite as good as mom's cooking, but close..
The funniest part, and when I knew I must be in San Francisco, is when I took a picture of one of my dishes, and the waitress said "Oh, are you going to blog this?"
Day two in SF was the big meeting, which went extremely well (what a relief). I'm very excited to present our new company and product at edit: the big conference in September! the rest of the day was as much fun as i could have in a strange city by myself. Went for a drive, had a burrito, and headed to the airport early for some pre-flight libations.
Santa Monica
This was my first time in LA since I was about 10. I've always been pretty jaded about the place, but I really enjoyed it for a couple days. Beautiful weather, fun shopping, and I got to see Brian and Nathan. I was a little disappointed that they didn't appear to want to hang out, so I just talked business with Brian then went on my way. Did some fun touristy stuff: rented a bike and rode down the beach, walked down the pier, and went shopping on the promenade and fred segel. Oh, and one of the guys from Top Chef was doing a cooking demo at the Williams-Sonoma in Beverly Hills. It was cute.
I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow evening. I'm excited b/c I haven't been here in a few years, but stressed out as I just learned that my "interview" tommorow is really supposed to be a presentation and demo. There really isn't too much to show demo-style at the moment, so I'm going to try and whip up a little powerpoint, and talk, because I have plenty to talk about at least.
Tomorrow evening, I fly down to Santa Monica to see my boss for the first time since he moved away from Seattle. I've got a big agenda, we'll see how far i get with it.
