Today I turned 50 and if you would have asked me 20 years ago, I probably thought I’d be dead by now. We dropped Mommi off @ SFO and then quickly shuttled on over to Lake Chalet for lunch. We had a quiet dinner just the 2 of us. Sandy made me a smoked salmon …
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PreBirthday Dinner
As Mommi & Bengie are leaving tomorrow we went out and celebrated my birthday with a dinner at Il Fornaio courtesy of Bengie. Prawns, gnocchi, pork chop wrapped with pork, lobster ravioli & tiramisu… While it wasn’t like the food in Italy it still gave me that overstuffed feeling on the drive back home.
Barin mini reunion
Mommi & Bengie flew in tonight. Sandy had corned beef in slow cooker all day. We dined on it for dinner.
Weekend
Had a pretty lazy weekend, ate out, mowed the lawn. Oh but we did manage to go a birthday party for Beth. Here’s some random stuff…
LA adventures
Had some training in the home office (I haven’t been there in 3 yrs). Later we had a short visit with my Ma. The tonkotsu ramen at Ramen Yamadaya was to die for… I got mine with a big slab of pork belly. I also had a chance to revisit one of my favorite pastrami …
Maverick
Had to travel to Reno and there are a limited number of flights, so I decided to drive. I stopped over to see Jimi & Amy… okay I wanted to meet Maverick. Oh Jimi made an outstanding 4 course dinner, whatever. Maverick! They also have 3 fat kats. It’ll take 4 washings to get rid …
Gung Hay Fat Choy
Last night we ate at our local Chinese restaurant to honor the new year.
Yuen Birthdays
Tonight we ventured into downtown Oakland to celebrate Tami & Chris’s birthday. Ozumo was the restaurant of choice.
Duck Dominance
I don’t follow any sports but I have to admit I like watching a good fight. I got tired of cleaning up after Ben Aflac by the back door so I tried to feed him at the lower patio. Well the other ducks caught wind of this and decided to swarm him. Apparently violence is …
MLK Day
We both had the day off so after a nice breakfast of duck hash & eggs, we drove to the local shopping center to do some errands. We sat in the car listening to the MLK I Have a Dream speech. It was quite inspirational. For Christmas, Sandy gave me a gift certificate for a number …