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Posts for October 9th 2010


Oct 9, 2010

El bulli holds her own

Last weekend, at grant's birthday, Eric invited Randall and I to their
next family+ poker game. It happened to be tonight and so we drove on
down to Fremont to test our luck. With 8 players we play for three
winners: third gets $20 (the buy in), second gets $50, and first gets
the rest ($90 if you need me to do the math). I am a pretty novice
player. In fact I have to check a cheat sheet before each game and
barely understand what a good or a bad hand is. Yet somehow I manage
to hold my own against these seasoned players. Grant says it's because
I'm a bully and force people to go all in. I say it's because I'm a
n00b and don't fully understand when I should be betting and when I
should be folding. Although I sort of hope I never figure it out,
because if I keep playing like this it'll be awesome. We played two
tournaments tonight and I came in third and then second. Not too
shabby for a bulli.

Ps. Yay for kele for playing too. It was fun to have another girl at
the table to steal these boy's money. Be sure to start teaching mikela
to do the same thing.


Oct 9, 2010

Nerd Friday (supreme food edition)

This morning kellan confessed that she'd never had a banh mi
(Vietnamese sandwich) before. I told her that we could remedy that
problem today and planned on taking her to cafe dolci. While not the
best, it is definitely solid. Garrick heard our plan and was inspired
to go to out-the-door instead. At that point it was decided that we'd
all go there since out-the-door is on the up and up, while dolci is a
little sketch (to some, to me it is solid good but others find their
$3 sandwiches scary). O-T-D ending up being a delicious choice though,
so thanks for the suggestion GT.

Speaking of delicious, after work Randall and I finally checked out
off the grid down at fort mason. Omfg. Why hasn't anyone dragged me
down there before? It was like food truck heaven. I had a chairman bao
duck bao, lamb kabobs, a samurai snack, potstickers, duck tacos, fried
chicken, pineaple salted caramel shave ice, and a delightful guava
cupcake to finish it all off. Thank god I splitsvilled them with
Randall (except the desserts those were all mine) and thank god I've
been going to the gym.

Not pictured is Erin, who also joined us at the feastival. I was in
the nom-zone and forgot to take pictographs by the time she arrived.

Okay. So who's going with me next week?!