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California Adventure: Sunday
Sunday my friend and I went on a tour of Alcatraz and then hit downtown San Francisco. I had originally tried to get my hands on tickets to the late-night Alcatraz tour on Monday, but with it being President’s Day weekend, it was a little busier than I had originally anticipated. Sunday morning we took…
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California Adventure: Friday and Saturday
Friday was given over to traveling out to California. I flew from Grand Rapids through Chicago to San Francisco, and then somehow managed to navigate the BART rail system at 10:30 at night to get into Berkeley. My earlier predictions that it was going to take some effort for me to adjust to Pacific Time…
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California Adventure: now with 25% more adventure!
I woke up this morning ready to head back home. I wasn’t exactly thrilled that my trip had come to an end, but I was about as mentally prepared as one can be before being felt up by a stranger, waiting a whole lot, and then finally being packed into a 757 and shot across…
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Trying that whole “Lent” thing again.
I’m not exactly the most active Catholic out there, but a few weeks ago I made up my mind that I was going to give up something for Lent this year, and take it a little more seriously than I did last year when I gave up dating. This year I’m giving up alcohol. Next…
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California Adventure: Triple Rock Brewery
Tuesday was the last day that I was going to do any drinking until Easter, and with an entire afternoon to kill, I decided to visit Triple Rock Brewery, which was just down the road and seemed like a place worth visiting. Triple Rock is apparently one of the older breweries in the area, with…
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Sushi Review: Party Sushi
Tuesday I decided to strike out on an afternoon of wandering, and since I was alone and my friend has a pretty bad shellfish allergy, I figured it was as good a time as any to grab some sushi. I did some searching online to try and find a sushi place that wasn’t either a…
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California Adventure: the Quest for the Beer Wench
A few weeks ago, while planning my trip to California, one of my brewing friends suggested that I stop by Bison Brewing and locate someone known to the Internet as “The Beer Wench”. Yesterday, as part of my afternoon of wandering Berkeley solo, I decided to track down the Beer Wench. After finishing up my…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 6: Blistered Zucchini au Gratin
This recipe is from the Two Dudes One Pan cookbook I’ve got. I decided to tack this on as a side to the herbed flank steak with tomatoes that I did the other night because it looked pretty straightforward and very easy. It is, essentially, zucchini drizzled with some olive oil and then put under…
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40 Recipe Challenge, Part 5: Herbed Flank Steak with Tomatoes
I felt like grilling again last night, so I went over to my parents and offered to make them dinner. I returned to the grilling cookbook my friend had gotten me for Christmas, and decided to try out a recipe for flank steak (this recipe is also available online). I’m a big fan of flank…
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Inertia, Bachelor Style
The weirdest thing happened to me tonight. It was about 6pm. I was still at the office, mostly because I had run across an intriguing Mac problem around 4:30 and didn’t want to let it go (the customer runs on CST, so they weren’t really staying late because of my curiosity). That issue had been…
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