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Day 9

7/13/2012

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Day 9: You have, gentle reader, in your mind, a picture of what "California" is, and so do I.  So when R suggested that we go to a "very California" restaurant for dinner, I immediately flashed to a trendy vegetarian place with spiritually-named dishes that reflect one's peace with the universe.   I pictured dishes named things like "Limitless Compassion" and "Loving Kindness" and "Buddha's Dirty Socks". 

He took me to a restaurant where only ONE of those is not the actual name of a dish.

Hippies.  Everywhere.

As trendy vegetarian experiences go, it wasn't half-bad, and, if pressed, drawn, quartered, and forced to swear on a stack of bibles THIS HIGH, it was actually pretty delicious.

Just typing that made me realize that I'm turning into one of those people.  One of THOSE people.  You know the people that I mean.  People who order something called "Ten Thousand Buddha's" without batting an eyelash.  People who enjoy, and I mean really ENJOY, a strictly vegetarian meal. 

He's making me into a Californian, is what I'm saying, and despite every part of my hog, cow, and chicken murdering intuitions.... it was really, really good.

I basically ate a tree for dinner, is what I'm saying.  A delicious, delicious tree.

I'm pretty sure that the "bread" was made of "bark". 

But it really was awesomely good.

Then R and I settled down to watch "Jekyll", which is the best Stephen Moffat series you haven't seen yet.  And we had his magnificent popcorn, with just a TOUCH of truffle salt.

I'm in love with California: the people, the food, and, most of all, the ability to do something completely foreign to me every day.  Life is short, so you might as well spend it hanging out with AWESOME, no?

That is what we call (say it with me):

ADVENTURE!!  :)




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Yes, I got yelled at a LOT for wearing a company shirt.  I guess RSI has given me a shirt I can wear in the privacy of my home, since I can't wear it on-site, ever...  My friends will love it's logo-ness.
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R, overlooking our juices.  Mine was mango, strawberry, and orange juice.  I'm pretty sure his was lemongrass, pineapple, and small children.
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Carolyn
7/13/2012 02:40:13 am

No small children are ever harmed in vegeterian restaurants. Some guests may, on an occasion, wish to harm the out of control small children that got seated next to them, as their appetizer is being served.

Just sayin' , in case you read that last sentence and wondered, like i did, how a small child could end up in a VEGEtARIan beverage.

Jim: you have only skimmed the surface. Yes. Lots more "unique" CA adventures await you. Ready for raw vegan?

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Carolyn
7/13/2012 03:15:25 am

Sorry about the poor sentence structure, verb tenses which do not agree and the spelling errors in the above comment. It is my iphone's fault. The new universal scape goat. "it wasn't me. It was my not always smart enough phone's fault."

Even the bad form of changing the topic and what now appears to be a relentless attempt to hi-jack your blog is my phone's fault. A

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Andy
7/13/2012 06:22:39 am

"I'm in love with California: the people, the food, and, most of all, the ability to do something completely foreign to me every day. Life is short, so you might as well spend it hanging out with AWESOME, no?"

I've spent significant time in California twice: three months in San Diego in 1997 and a week in San Fran in 2006ish. Boy is California seductive. I remember just ditching the conference in SF to wander around all day, eating, seeing, smelling and I thought, that's it, I'm moving here. But after a while you start to see the warts, the little things that will sour you -- I can't do what?? That cost how much? -- that you realize it's a nice place to visit but the Carolinas are the place to be. YMMV, I'm just saying your opinion of California will likely change over time.

Still, great blog, I look forward to it each day.

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Carolyn's iPhone
7/13/2012 01:35:45 pm

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Carolyn's more smart iPhone
7/13/2012 01:49:15 pm

Well. I find it refreshing!! CAli Used to be the Golden State when i first moved out here from pretty mich every state on the eastern seaboard, especially all points south of Virgina.

But now. California is, as everyone knows, more
Broken than any other state in the the Union. With no end in site. Apparently ever. I fully expect the entire state to dry up, burn to the ground and go bankrupta, all on the same day, any moment and have for several years now.

Andy: Jim has already experienced peanut butter sticker shock.

Thus ends my hi jack your blog attempt. Leaving early am from nor cal. Yes it is nor cal. Central cal is santa Barbara > headed to so cal! Yipee yahoo!! Road trip to LA and hello san diego. So yes. Leaving 100 degree temps in nor cal for cooler weather in so cal. Makes no sense. Like everything in the entire state these days. € : )

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ChainsawPenguin
7/13/2012 06:08:26 pm

Andy (S, I think??) raises some good points, as does Carolyn, my mother's sister, her technical issues notwithstanding. :)

Sure, California isn't perfect. No state is*. But I am enjoying my time out here, and I hope you both continue to enjoy hearing about it!!











*Excepting Vermont, obviously

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