Monday, November 12, 2007
Holiday. Usual oatmeal breakfast. House chores. Brunch with Phil, Drew, and Chris at Canton Dim Sum & Seafood Restaurant (415-495-3064, 655 Folsom Street, San Francisco). Chris and I drove along the Embarcadero and witnessed a sidewalk crowd gathered around an (eagle?) that had downed and was guarding a (presumably killed) pigeon. We hiked up lots of steps and then took an elevator to visit the top of Coit Tower ($4.50 each to ride to the top). Chris got a Coit Tower souvenir penny flattened for $0.50. We drove down Lombard Street, then got coffee at Peet's (iced gingerbread latte for me, peppermint mocha for Chris) on Chestnut Street. Walked Chestnut Street a bit. Chris bought peanut butter cones from a gourmet chocolate shop. Drove back to Chris and Nate's—Nate had just gotten home. We all went to dinner at Goat Hill Pizza, which has a special pizza night on Mondays: you pay $9.95 for all-you-can-eat pizza and salad. They come around to tables with various kinds of pizzas announcing the flavor and you can choose to take a slice or not. It's kind of like Espetus or dim sum except it's pizza. It's a nice idea, and I liked it. At around 6:00 PM we waited about 20 minutes for a table. Days later Joel tells me that Michele had read my blog and discovered that we had likely eaten within meters or minutes or both of each other—they had been to Goat Hill Pizza around the same time this evening. Home. Laundry. Chatted with Tony Q and helped him change his website from a single long home page to a short home page with multiple children pages.