YESTERDAY:

• woke up to do a bit of work
• Jackie and I went to Westfield to get some new jeans!
• lunch first at Koja
  • haven’t been here in quite a while
  • used to be a food truck at the AOL building in Palo Alto
• picked up new jeans
• interview for a hardware technician applicant
• drop off some donations at a Goodwill
• pick up gas from Costco
• head home for a bit more work
• Jackie went for a walk to CVS
• one nap
• head to dinner at a new Indian restaurant, Lagram!
  • pretty tasty dishes
  • enjoyed the Chicken 65 … much better than Deccan Morsels
  • passed a laptop to Sunjay
  • his motorcycle is so loud
• head back to Brian’s to play new character
• turns out the cats that he had over left me a present :(
  • despite Brian’s best vacuuming
  • allergies triggered and breathing got messed up
• head to Felipe’s Market
  • Brian tipped off that they had boxes of strawberries for $0.69!
  • bought 5 boxes after combing for mold
• head home

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YESTERDAY:

• head to Safeway in Sunnyvale for blood work
  • there’s a Quest Diagnostics lab inside
  • tiny little corner office with a doctor
  • very efficient at extracting my blood though
• head home
  • quick nap
• head to work
• busy day
• ramen for lunch
  • super salty
  • also noodles were very chewy
• interview
• two naps
• head to HIIT class in Palo Alto
  • Golnaz was the instructor and enjoyed giving me a challenge
  • got called out for taking it easy on a 2nd rep
• head to California Ave for dinner
  • live band was pretty good but the crowd was lackluster …
  • decided on Bodeguita del Medio
  • haven’t been here in ages
  • they have a paella now?
  • also got some ribs
  • super full after finishing everything
• head back to shower
• sync with Michael
• booked our flights to Canada in August
• tried to go to sleep early
• woke up around 4 am
  • couldn’t fall asleep

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YESTERDAY:

• head to work
• interesting chat with a guy from a Japanese conglomerate
  • looking for applications of a neat strain sensor
  • nothing for Revvo, but reached out to some folks
• forget what we had for lunch
• sync with Tammie during work
• had a call with a men’s health doctor
  • seems a little obsessed with supplements
  • will see what he recommends though
• head to dance practice
  • not our best run
  • worked on a few things though

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YESTERDAY:

• woke up around noon
• cereal and leftover thai food for lunch
• head to dance practice
  • worked on choreo intro with Kat, Vikas, Pawan, and Chiara
  • Annaliza came in and fixed everything in 10 minutes
• head home
• lots of cleaning to do!
  • vacuumed
  • threw out a bunch of old clothes
• took Brian to Brazilian steakhouse
  • met up with Sara there!
  • used our 25% off discount successfully
  • Brian’s first brazilian steakhouse experience!
  • beef ribs were not impressive, even though we waited forever
• head back to our place for board games
  • Brian was hosting two cats
• lost a game of Aeon’s End
  • very difficult
• had a kiwi
• finished first season of Apothecary Diaries
• set up a 24-hour oxtail sous vide

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YESTERDAY:

• running on like 2 hours of sleep
• head to workout with Taylor
  • focused on upper body
  • legs still not recovered
• shower at work
• few folks in the office
• Fawn got us little rice boxes for lunch!
• couple of optimizations for Lucas
• head to dance choreo practice
  • good formation work
• social afterwards
  • more students came this time
  • lovely elderly lady just getting into dancing
• chandni chowk for dinner
  • they changed up the menu a bit
  • Jackie had to help Vikas finish his chicken dish
• head back

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YESTERDAY:

• head to work
• beef stew for lunch
  • very tasty!
• one nap
• busy day
• super fast meeting with China team
• super long meeeting with Japan team
• head to climbing
  • finished a few 11a climbs
  • new partner climb looks tough!
  • caught up with Sam
• head home
  • finished a pack of har gow

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YESTERDAY:

• calf was super sore for some reason
• head to work
  • bit of traffic
• rabbit for lunch?
  • very lean …
  • chicken was more tasty imo
• ton of meetings in afternoon
• head to solidcore class
  • least we didn’t use my calves?
• head home to shower
• Jackie was dealing with some work leftovers
• head to dance practice at Naya
  • productive practice with Simren and Vedant
• late night dinner on Castro St
  • Jackie and I went to Eureka
  • found a burger with goat cheese!
  • didn’t really taste the cheese, but it was tasty
  • no stomachache!
• researching heat pumps

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YESTERDAY:

• woke up around 7:40 am
  • running on ~4 hours of sleep
• picked up lunches from Roger’s Deli
  • beautiful new location a block away from the old
  • a lot less seating now though
• picked up Stephanie
• head to the trailhead
• met a bunch of Brian’s interns
  • lovely chat with a mechanical engineer finishing his Ph.D.
• pretty easy hike
  • waterfall was lovely
• head to Marianne’s for ice cream
  • tried a sorbet and a coconut-based fudge thing
  • walked around a festival by the beach
• head back to south bay
  • Stephanie had a stomachache and threw up in my car
  • luckily we had a zip lock bag available
  • dropped her off at home
• drop off Sara
• shower and head to Brian’s
• watched Wicket 2 sing-a-long version
  • G joined us as well
  • not as fun as the first movie

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YESTERDAY:

• head to work
• ramen for lunch
  • and a salad and a soup
• one nap
• head to Stanford health center in Redwood City in afternoon
  • parked in the wrong parking lot
  • still made it to my appointment on time
• super nice doctor
  • got me a sleep monitoring device
• head to yoga in Palo Alto
  • teacher was surprised to see me
  • fun class
• caught up with Kofi on my way home
• shower
• head to comedy show
  • Gina Brillon!
  • used up some of our stubhub credit
  • hilarious set
  • ginger ale and salsa + chips
  • dislike required minimum orders
• head home
• frozen dumplings for dinner
• went through mail stuffs

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YESTERDAY:

• head to work
• hamstrings are pretty sore
• bukkake udon for lunch
  • forgot this was cold
  • also not enough protein (tehe)
• one nap
• head to dance practice
  • dropped off Jackie early to practice with Shubham
  • picked up gas from Costco
• productive practice
  • finished most of our formation work
• home eat for dinner
  • special deal on rock cod + popcorn chicken
  • chicken wasn’t great
  • peach juice was too sweet
  • rock cod was tasty though!
• got home a bit late

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