Tonight, Sandy treated me to seared scallops in an orange reduction for dinner, yum!
Scallops
AARP
Itz here, 3 days after my birthday. No more full prices for those meals like you youngsters. I’m gonna fill it out tonight.
New neighbors
Tami & Chris are moving to Alameda. Since today is moving day we got to dogsit with Koa.
I’ve learned a few thing about Koa:
The first thing we did was to let her outside in the backyard. That was a mistake. She immediately pursued the ducks right into the lagoon and refused to come out. I don’t think she liked the feel of the mud on her paws as she was trying to walk backwards.
Being thoroughly soaked with lagoon water we had to hose her off. After drying her off I had to vacuum the volumes of dog fur off of my pants. I then found out that Koa doesn’t like the vacuum. She attacked the Dyson.
With her being so hyper, we decided the goal was to wear her out. So we took her for a walk where she found a new hobby… chasing ground squirrels. She was worn out by the time we got home.
Old dog new trick
Just found out how to do an image focus stack in CS4.
Just nifty @ 50
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 pasta dish. This was followed up by lattes & puto bumbong.
We finished the evening by watching Case 39 @ home.
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 places in Culver City. I haven’t been there in 18 years. It was so good.
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 of all that fur from my pants.