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Went to this place Tao Tao’s in Sunnyvale with my mother, Mike, and Frank. The waiter was nice about finding something vegan I could eat. Turned out like ma po dofu (麻婆豆腐) with peas.

Funniest thing was the table next to us. These four people from Cisco (we gather) who were making a ruckus. I think one of them got there early and threw a few back at the bar while waiting for the rest of his people. I couldn’t believe how boisterous they were, especially this one I’ll call Dave. Running joke there. It was a nice quiet restaurant, people using their indoor voices, except for this bunch. At one point, Dave actually puts the person he had been talking to through his cell phone on speaker phone. So now there’s a table of at least half-drunk people shouting into this phone and the guy on the other end yelling back. Amazing.

I was so amazed I felt it necessary to take a photo with Dave, telling him he looked like my highschool English teacher. Yeah, this wasn’t true, but it was pretty good for something I thought up on the spot.

That’s me in the dark shirt and Dave with his head turned letting out a guffaw.

He really got a kick out of it. Even said “oh, this is going on the Internet.” Dave, you didn’t know how right you were.

My thanks for his table-mate for taking the picture and apologies for the low quality, it was taken with my cell-phone in doors in the evening. Beg pardon.

Hope you aren’t too hungover tomorrow, Dave.

We’re movin’ on up. My blog’s now sitting happily at blog.marcwiesner.com. No more of that /blog shit. Go ahead and try it. Try to beat the system. You’ll just get sent back to the front.
Mwahaha!

Being the old man of the group about half the time, I’ve seen more than a couple friends get their first car (almost a rite of passage here in the USA) and proceed to fret over getting the scheduled maintenance all done on time. 5,000 miles, 7,500 miles, 10,000 miles…you get the idea. I guess I’m a sceptic; I just don’t see that sort of thing as being necessary as long as you do some reasonable and timely maintenance.

Here’s my example. Mike had bought this Miata that started misfiring. I figure, electrical. What’s the quick fix? Change the spark plugs. Pulled the first one out; rusty. I shit you not the plug was rusty as fuck. Second one, more so. Third one…wire was burnt apart. hehe…there’s your misfire.

How rusty were the plugs?

This rusty

Oh yeah..and that peice of sparkplug wire is there also.  *shudders*

A very spirited game between our men’s basketball team and the team from San Diego. Saw some great plucks and sweet shots from our side, but sadly not enough to carry us through for a win.

Got a couple good shots at least.

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