Travellin' Man

[crschmidt]

Flew out of Boston yesterday for San Francisco. JetBlue plane had an oil leak coming in that they couldn't fix, so we left two hours late due to needing a new plane; landed about one hour late. Made my way through a Very Hot San Francisco -- 95+ degree heat is somewhat unusual for this city. Overall, travel was easy, if slow.

Made it to Neil's, chilled out, caught up on email, prepped a bike for travel to UPXIII, where dinner was. I did question whether biking to UPXIII was the best plan for a flatlander like me. After making it to the house, I decided that it definitely was an ... interesting idea. The house is essentially on Bernal Hill; this means that I was biking up a pretty damn brutal hill to get to the house. In the end, I made it without stopping, but it was definitely a hard push, and it took me about an hour to really recover completely.

Dinner was fantastic. A four course meal for 15 people cooked by the people themselves (though I mostly stuck to doing dishes). Soup, fruits, sea scallops, lovely dessert. All in all, the entire thing was probably some of the best food I've had outside of a restaurant; and some of itw as actually better than I've had in most restaurants. (The experience actually reminded me of Craigie Street Bistrot, which I've been to once-and-only-once.)

Got back around 1am -- 4am body clock time -- and slept for about 4-5 hours.

Currently sitting around, catching up on various things. Looking like my plan for the day is to hack in the same meatspace as Rich and Schuyler (possibly at crucially's, I guess?) and then hit up The Dubliner, over in Noe Valley, starting around 7/7:30, for hacking with other geo-minded folks.

Conference starts tomorrow in Mountain View; need to arrange a way for me to get there before then :)

Comments

[jpallan.livejournal.com]

Caltrain?

You are sorely missed here. I understand now why a lot of mums say the best way to get appreciated is to leave.

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

The problem with Caltrain is that although it can get me to Mountain View, it can't get me to Google -- no public transportation can. (This is also true of Yahoo!/Sunnyvale; the only way was a 2 mile bike ride from Caltrain, *over a state highway overpass over the interstate*.)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=6913274534084284730,37.423398,-122.086507&saddr=Caltrain,+Mountain+View&daddr=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043+(Google)&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=37.486155,-122.171125&sspn=0.579726,1.153564&ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13

I can just grab a cab, if worst comes to worst, but I'm going to talk to people tonight and see if I can hitch a ride instead.

[maryam.livejournal.com]

How long will you be in town? Our trips are overlapping!

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

Not long; I'm here (at the Googleplex) for the weekend, then fly out on the redeye.

I'm going to be at The Dubliner, in Noe Valley, from about 7:30PM onward this evening: If you're in a position to stop by and grab a drink, you could stop by and say hi?

I'm 603.264.2294 -- feel free to text/call me if you're interested. (I could also grab food around 6 or 6:30?)