Wednesday Recap - Coolest. Day. Ever.

So Wednesday was a GREAT day.  Not only did we spend it with Lynette and Brett, but we got to have dinner with Wil Wheaton.  No lie.

Breakfast was at Richard Walker's Pancake House - amazing.  And ODDLY enough, I happen to have worked with the guy that is one of the owners.  Worked on an SAP project with him...Richard Walker Jr.  He wasn't there, but what are the odds?

We then hung out and had beers, stole a mini fridge from the storage room next door and put it in our room, then had late apps and beers.

Then, and this is the coolest part of the day - no offense Lynette and Brett...but we had dinner with Wil Wheaton!!

He's a home brewer, works with Northern Brewer, super lovely and nice guy (as is his wife), and here were the super fun things about the meal.

1. I shrewdly jockeyed for table position and was able to slyly secure Chris a seat next to Wil. Score one for Patty.
2. Wil recognized Chris - he had just watched the Brewing TV cider episode.  Super fun, Chris was happy.
3. Again...oddly...Wil and his wife know Chris's sister Amanda and her husband.  They are friends.  What are the odds!

Let me just reiterate - Wil Wheaton is a very lovely celebrity.  He's so down to earth, just really a dorky homebrewer like the rest of these guys, and really happy to take pictures with people that love him.   Score 1000 for Wil Wheaton.

GREAT Fucking Day

Lately I've had a lot of time to reflect on things (and worry about them if I'm honest)...what will happen with my job, what I want to DO for a job, what I want to do in life, what is the purpose for my life.  Those of you that know me well, know that these are the questions I am faced with in life - and talk to you about incessantly (thanks to  OCD).  So bear with me momentarily...

Let me tell you one thing that I KNOW after today:

- I have a really amazing life.
- I have a GREAT husband, who (despite the small things that tend to annoy me) is the best person I know. Mostly I think just for putting up with me most of the time, but because he is truly a good person - always willing to help people out, be nice to people, and make other people's lives easier.
- I have GREAT friends from home (B&L) that are here, that laugh with me and at me and laugh at all the things in between.  I apparently can ride in a car with them and five others, sitting bench style across them in the back seat of a Chrystler 200 driving on the freeway, and we can laugh like we are 19 again.
- I have GREAT friends that we went out to dinner with tonight (C&E) that make me laugh harder than most people can, and that are truly people that can make me light up and forget all that ails me...in just a few minutes.  They are the people that every three years can make it seem like it was just yesterday that you were working together, even tho it was 2003.

What I know is that I have a lighter load in life because of my husband, friends from home, and friends from afar that make it so I have a great life.  And the work questions just seem like a whole lot of bullshit that will work itself out.  And I knew that in my head, but after today, I know that in my heart.  At least until the next OCD episode hits me...

I  call that a great day.

And I forgot to take a fucking picture.

Société Brewing

With Chris, Brett, Lynette, Susan, Sara, Eric, Tom and Nancy.

God help me, I'm not sure what is going on.

Modern Times

I don't really know WTF just happened...

Round 2...

We like IPAs apparently...

- Russian River Blind Pig
- Société The Pupil IPA
- Société The Apprentice IPA
- Artifex See Ya Tomorrow IPA

PLINY!

At Toronado with Brett, Lynette, and Chris drinking four Pliny the Elders and right now we are all either looking at or are on our phones.  See?  Brett is on his phone.

Good times.

Tuesday Funday

It certainly was Monday Funday (coincidentally our 26th dating anniversary yesterday), but today will prove to be even better.

We just went for about an hour walk down by the Embarcadero, which was good given how much we ate and drank yesterday, and will plan on today.

B&L get in about 11:15 for the conference, and we are going to spend the day with them hitting a bunch of great bars!

Then we have dinner tonight with C&E - can't wait, it's been three years since we've seen them!

Good day.