Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Today Cindy took the entire office staff to lunch at Buckeye Roadhouse, a fine dining establishment in Mill Valley. Eric V, Eric D, Shirin, Lucia, Scott, JWG. (Unfortunately Carol couldn't make it.) I had a delicious heirloom tomato salad. Food and service were both excellent—a very pleasant experience. Afterwards we stopped briefly at Walgreen's then did a short loop walk/hike in Muir Woods. I believe Eric D got half of us in for free. JWG got a new camera recently and has been learning how to use it. I successfully posted a photo via Loopt from the Roadhouse, but within Muir Woods there wasn't a strong enough signal and my Loopt update from there failed. We all wore lots of sun protection (hat, sunscreen) and at the end realized we didn't need it—you don't need sun protection for a walk in a forest. After the woods, we were supposed to go to Muir Beach to share dessert that Cindy had brought, but somehow we missed the turn and ended up at a rocky parking lot not far from the Roadhouse, but it was still enjoyable to share some sweets and watermelon slices. Luckily we didn't have to pay a toll coming back since it had just turned 4:00 PM. (Carpoolers between 4 and 6 are free, or something like that.) Drove Scott E and Eric D to Safeway at Church and Market. After messaging Patrick, I decided to pick up some groceries before heading home. Dinner at home with Patrick: breaded pan-fried chicken, baked potato, side salad. Attempted to watch El Mariachi (1992) on Netflix DVD but it was damaged in a way as to be unplayable so we flipped over the disc and watched Desperado (1995) instead, which we both enjoyed. Weight training: superslow dumbbell fly. Stretches. Late meal: lowfat yogurt, hot nonfat milk, leftover pasta with chicken cacciatore.