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Variety IS The Spice of Life

March 10, 2009 in City Life, Food | 4 comments

Since moving up to the Bay Area on January 28th, 2009, I’ve eaten at a variety of places (to say the least). In the OC, you turn the corner and there’s yet another TGI McFunsters* in a brand new plaza (no offense, it has it’s own charm and sense of security we all need).  Up here, turn the corner and you find a place that you’ve always wanted to go to that’s on your list of 100 places to go to before leaving the Bay Area.  Having said that, 28 days passed before I went back to a place the 2nd time around - the “Taco Truck” on the corner of Polk and Hayes.

BTW, for those of you who have given up (good) food for Lent, I didn’t write this post to rub it in :p

Here’s my list of places I have eaten in the last 40 days - yelp links provided:

* phrase coined by Anthony Bourdain, my foodie hero

** yumm!

Parking In SF

March 6, 2009 in City Life | 1 comment

This is dedicated to those of you out in The OC (Orange County):

We went to go have dinner in the city with some friends on a Friday nite (at the club), which became an eventful evening before we even got to the restaurant.

After 30 minutes of circling, U’ing, and broken-heartedness, we finally found parking far far away.  In the image on the left, the green pin denotes where we parked, and the red pin denotes where the restaraunt was.

I’m not complaining about the parking.  I share this situation for those of you who do complain about parking at a “far spot” in a nice parking lot, with the destination a whopping 100 yards away :p

A New Day

February 2, 2009 in City Life | No comments

6:24am: My life is now shifted about 4 hours ahead

2 others on the bus… it’s a party!

7:33am: On the BART from Millbrae to THE BIG CITY!

8:01am: A 10 minute walk to the office. Some cool sites along the way - here, City Hall

The world famous Davies Symphony Hall. I use to come here every year in elementary and Jr. High for field trips.

The park by the office. The grass is lumpier on the other side of OC.

8:30am: The work day begins! Here’s the office I share. If it looks like a living room, it is because IT IS! The office is an old Victorial house that has been converted to an office. That wooden mantle is a fireplace frame.


6:30pm: The work day ends. City Hall looks cooler at nite.