Monday off

Yesterday I had the day off to off-set the upcoming 7-day work week.  With Jes in NYC for the next two weeks, I guess it was good timing for me to have a 2-day course over the coming weekend.  Anyway, I managed to be very productive on my day off.  Stopped at work to turn in my parking application and brought Koa along to take him to the dog park nearby.  Unfortunately, it turned out to be a rather ghetto fenced-off area with asphalt and dirt. I suppose it’s a good use to dead space under the freeway.

Koa was a little confused and didn’t know where to poo but eventually gave in and took care of business.  Once that was done, he was able to run around and sniff the two other dogs that were already in there.

Later that day, I cleaned the house, did 3 loads of laundry, and went to Trader Joe’s to buy groceries for the week.  With Jes gone, it was time for me to detox and experiment with new products.  I bought a box of red quinoa, a jar of sundried tomatoes, whole wheat flatbread, and a jar of green olive tapenade.  I made the quinoa in the rice cooker and it came out perfect!  Then I added a tablespoon of olive oil, halved cherry tomatoes, chopped sundried tomato, and a pinch of salt.  Added to a bed of arugula and accompanied with a soft and chewy flatbread plus a small scoop of tapenade, it was a tasty but fiberlicious lunch for me.

Crazy Race Day

On Saturday, it looked like it was going to be an awesome day on the water.  Jes crewed for a captain in an another ocean race and it turned out to be a wild and crazy ride.  While in mid-race, there were 8-foot swells and it caused the boom of their sailboat to break and the boat tipped onto its side with Jes pinned up against the rail and completely in the water.  He had a quick near-death experience but luckily he was on the inner side of the boat and was able to scramble towards the high side.  He certainly got a big scare with a side of adrenaline rush.  To make matters worse, the rudder also broke and had to take a 4-hour trip back to the harbor with a puny motor and super waves that looked like a wall of water that would then sploosh onto the bow of the sailboat.  Jes has some pretty strong sea legs but these swells made him oh so sick.

When I got home from my tournament that evening, I found a trail of wet clothes and shoes leading to the bathroom and Jes fast asleep in bed.  He was exhausted.  When I asked him if he was done with ocean racing, he just shrugged it off and was excited for the next one.  *sigh*

Final Four!

Once again, we raised funds for the BORP Roll n Shoot Tourney and played some wheelchair basketball on Saturday.  Last year we got beat up and only scored seven times out of all 4 games.  Of course we came in dead last but had a lot of fun.  This year we didn’t actually get to practice as much as last year so I was bit worried when we arrived at the court.

Luckily we came a little more prepared with our shirts in the colors of the kids on the Children’s logo.  We even got hooked up with tattoos and window clings that we taped to our backs with medical tape.  We were a rag-tag bunch, a little ghetto, but oh so awesome.

We played our first game and we won!  Then in the second game we won again!  In our third game, I scored TWICE!, and we won after an overtime shoot-out. Check out this video clip:

In our fourth game, we won and swept our pool.  That took us to the Final Four and we played the other pool’s second-best team and got beat by only one point!!

Our coach MacKenzie was such a good sport with our ADD tendencies and rowdiness.  We raised money for a wonderful organization and had a fun-filled day playing w/c bball.  Who knows…maybe we’ll get to the finals next year?!

Here are photos from the tournament.

So unloved…

Got an email from a friend who is currently in the midst of transforming from a humble street cart to a full-on SF hipster cult.  I got a taste of their corned beef sammich a couple months ago and snapped a few photos for them.  In her email, she asked if she could send my photos to a person who was interested in writing an article about them in jweekly and I was excited for them and for my photos.  THEN!  I got a second email from her saying that coincidentally there was a blog posting (totally unrelated to the aforementioned article) on SFoodie featuring an event going on tonight featuring MY PHOTO on the header!!!  I guess the writer grabbed it from Pearl’s Kitchen’s Facebook profile and didn’t ask for permission to use the photo from my friend nor did they ask for the photo credit.  Bummer.

Halfway There

This morning I completed my 6-mile Long Run.  It was sunny and breezy, which made for a pretty pleasant run. Take a look at the wildflowers along the Marina!

I ran from the Willie Mays statue at King and 3rd all the way down to Crissy Field, which is just half a mile from the Golden Gate Bridge.  Here’s a photo of me at the end of my run.

With 14 weeks left of training, I should be on track, if not ahead of schedule for the SF Half Marathon.  I just gotta cross my fingers that I don’t injury myself until then.

Spicy Fried Goodness

After a quick stop at Costco, we had dinner at a newish place called SO.  It’s Korean but not.  They have some really tasty fried chicken wings that are sticky, crunchy, sweet, and spicy.  Yum.  We also had noodles cooked with a spicy shredded pork sauce.

Our last dish was curry potato croquette that was also super tasty.  The best part of it all was that it was a pretty cheap meal and I was happy.