Sunday, September 9, 2012
Weight training: crunches, bicycles. Breakfast: small bowl of Grandma Goodie's super granola with organic lowfat milk. Archived receipts and documents from Europe trip. Uploaded photos of receipts to Flickr (private). Rode Muni to Powell Street station. Stopped at the Apple Store to pick up some small items for work. The worker automatically gave me the UCSF discount: 7%. Muni to Montgomery Street station. Met Nate and Jen at The Palace Hotel for sunday brunch in The Garden Room. Sunday brunch is pricey—$75. The food is great slightly more for the huge selection than the quality (which is high), but you're paying more for the experience than the food. Basically almost anything most Americans might want to eat for brunch is there. Afterwards Jen retrieved her car from the expensive "valet" parking and we parked in the Union Square garage. We visited Tout Sweet, Yugit Pura's patisserie which opened this weekend. (Too full to eat anything, of course.) Afterwards Jen gave Nate a lift to PDDR's. I did some shopping: Uniqlo pop-up store, Zara boys, Levi's, bought a few items at the first two. Interestingly, Uniqlo offered free, 1-hour hemming on the jeans I bought, but I declined when I learned they would not do an original hem. Got an iced tea from Marcela at Emporio Rulli and sat in Union Square watching a man have fun entertaining children and dogs with a remote-controlled racing car. Muni to Embarcadero station. Met Patrick who arrived by car, dropped purchases in the trunk. Dinner at Fuzio: angel hair with shrimp and calamari for Patrick, chinese chicken salad for me, Lagunitas pints for each. We saw Samsara (2011) at Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center.