Friday: Q150

I miss sushi.

At least the bbq place is pretty good.

Sunday: Wrapping up fun times.

Tomorrow is back to work.

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Thursday: a surprising amount of work for being out of the office

And BBQ:

Saturday: Probably too much food.

Probably.

AYCE KBBQ.

 Not as good as the one in Oakland, but still very tasty.

Then an afternoon of being very full.

Followed by a fancy dinner.

With lobster bisque and lightly seared ahi after the oysters.  Quite good.

Monday: Escape!

Healthy lasagna with spinach and lemon ricotta.

Lemon ricotta is really good here, and probably in similar use-cases.

This sounds like a superhero.

Then escape room, where we solved all the puzzles with only one small hint in the bonus "extra-hard" bit.  Not bad, but we probably could have sorted it out if we had thought clearer about it.

I don't even know who this guy is.

Heatmor?  Whatever.

Then planning and shopping and cleaning for NYE.  One side benefit: getting bbq:

Yummy delicious bbq.  The brisket cooled a lot between the store and home, but that isn't really that big of a problem.

• I saw this chair yesterday, and kind of really want one, but with a back.  I 100% prefer to sit in my office chair crosslegged, and this would make that much easier and more comfortable.

Tuesday: Good food and OMG, I play a psychopath in this game.

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 And then some work during the day.

And pasta for dinner.

I played more of Pokemon Shield today.  I'm beginning to think either:

1. I'm training way more than I should, and that I'm not supposed to be fighting everything I see.
2. I'm a horrible monster that should be stopped.

At this point, I'm about 8 levels above everything I fight.  I have to actively plan what to do if I want to catch a new Pokemon, because my SadBoi will simply murder it in one move.  A quick summary:

This kid:  one shotted.

This kid:  one shotted.

This curry: delicious.

This guy: old enough to know better.

This guy: doesn't understand I just wanted a coffee.

These teens: sorely outmatched.

This guy: He can't be my rival if I murder all of his pets every time we meet.

This guy: Also can't be my rival because acting like a piece of shit doesn't mean anything if I kill your creatures without taking any damage.

This kid: not disguised enough.

To be fair, I am seeing all the sights and doing my best Galar tourism.  It just feels so wrong.

• Krobus can move into your house in 1.4!
• Soup/soda.
• Prez.

Tuesday: asldfkhasldgh

It turns out that small projects are good, and long projects are not good.  I probably should have realized that before now.

I got a new horse.  It still parks crooked, though.

To be fair, I saw a big creature roaming around, and just assumed that was the boar I was searching for.

It turns out no, the boar I'm searching for is a cheating jerk, and I'm probably not high enough level to beat it.

• Orbital mechanics.
• I mentioned this BBQ place, right?
• I don't understand why people are so awful.
• Cosine similarity.
• I have all these places to sneak into and murder about in this game, and I'm only on the third area.

Thursday: A less effective work day, but lots of food.

Tomorrow I should try harder.

This guy.

 Noble Pig is closing, so we tried to go yesterday.  They were sold out, so we tried again today.

It was ridiculously busy.

But once we'd ordered, it didn't take long to get our food.

The namesake sandwich.

 It's a shame that it's closing.

Dinner was more BBQ, with Dan:

I probably shouldn't have eaten this much, but whatever.

Tomorrow is a busy travel day for Julie, which is unfortunate.  Busy travel days are the worst.

Sunday: Very good BBQ.

Interstellar BBQ.

Me taking a quick photo while Julie carefully lines up hers.

Burnt ends are the best part of the brisket.

Smoked scalloped potatoes.  I would eat this forever.

Forever.

Today was a less successful raid.  Maybe later in the week?

Tomorrow is a telecommute day, although it may not be very work-filled.  I should push that review out to people.

My home computer is also unavailable, so no RSS this week.  And no auto-queuing tumblr posts.  And no easy email.  No ready access to home data files.  I wonder if there was another power outage, and that triggered things to shut down.  :(

Wednesday: Only half over?

That doesn't sound right.  I'm pretty sure I've been at this conference for forever at this point.  Still interesting, still learning stuff, still using things I've read about to make cool figures:

I can't figure out the transform code to flatten the orbits down into a plane, but I'm probably over looking something.

BBQ for the Team Dinner.  I like BBQ.

The gym.

And then some Codenames, which we lost the first game of because my team overthought.

• Look at me being surprised.
• Squirrels.
• Another game that might be cool.

Monday: A last day.

Including delicious bbq.

And Pokemon battles.

And bizarre size differences.

And it's probably not actually a felony to use a cheat code to enter an apartment complex parking lot to play the game.

 And, looking back over things, I realize it's been two years since I came up with the scheme to have Julie buy one volume of Sandman, and I'd buy the other.  I read a lot that first year, finishing the first volume quickly (partially due to having read much of it before), and then slowing down in the second despite a good head start.  2018 was just bad for continuing the story, likely due to all the moving and work related things.  It was good to get back to it this evening.  However, it does kind of put the evening into a more somber note after reading ten or so issues.

It doesn't help that the story is kind of spiraling in for the finish I've known about for close to two decades now.

I'll miss the series when it's done, which suggests I should probably start it again.  Or perhaps reread Lucifer, which has much of the same feeling.

Sunday: KBBQ and snow.

I woke up late, but that's ok, I had no major plans for the day.  Except to make KBBQ.

It turns out that bulgogi is super easy to make.

I used a non-stick pan, because I had very thin tenderloin, but I think the flank was better for this.  I used the mushrooms to clean up the burnt bulgogi sauce, which made them super tasty as well.  I think next time I do this, I should get some pork belly as well.

And now it's snowing, but work isn't cancelled yet.  I'm still hoping for a day off.

• I can now close the tab I've had with the recipe in it for months.
• The thing I was missing, and didn't figure out until after, was a dipping sauce.  I had thought about making ssamjang, but I think I just want the oil and salt sauce that GogiTime had.
• Pokemon food.
• Snow.

Thursday: Babysitting day 3

No adventures today.  Probably for the best.  I was also somewhat more productive at working.  That's always good.

No adventures other than the one to BBQ land.

We almost got BBQ for dinner too, but someone decided they would rather have leftovers and not stop watching TV.  That's fine, as it reduced the fridge clutter a bit.  It also gave me a chance to decide that the thxgvg leftovers are probably not great anymore.  So, tomorrow maybe more BBQ?

And I took over the gym there.

Although no one else was there to help.

This was a quest or something?

Cabins.