Saturday, February 11, 2023
Ran in place while rewatching John Mulaney: New In Town (2012) on Netflix instant watch. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, roasted and unsalted slivered almonds, cacao nibs, toasted unsweetened coconut flakes, half diced banana; water. Cleaned the bathroom. Vacuumed. Midmorning small meal: leftover green beans with garlic, water. Lunch at home with Patrick: leftover char siu tofu gua bao with cucumbers and carrots, water. Cut my hair (it's been almost a month since my last one), showered. Nap. Muni didn't have a bus ready in time for us to arrive, so we rode UberX with Patrick to 24th and Folsom then walked to Urban Putt where we met Chris G and Andy T. It was crowded when we arrived. We used a locker to store the gifts we brought them then were told we were 9th on the waitlist to golf. We got beers upstairs then after a while ordered chicken and waffles with four skewers instead of the default three. Immediately after ordering we received a text message saying they were ready for us to golf. We got a round of water and waited to consume the food order before returning downstairs to golf. It was still crowded when we arrived downstairs. Chris, Andy, and Patrick had cocktails. Behind us in line were about four or five teens who didn't follow the hole order and weren't really playing the game properly, which I found annoying, but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. Chris won with 32 strokes. Andy was next with 35, then Patrick with 37, and I got 42. My biggest mistakes were: on Quake! (#1) I repeatedly hit the sides of the building; I should have just gone around it. On Video Vision (#6) hitting too hard causes the ball to hit the top of the horizontal slot instead of entering it; hit lightly even if it takes more strokes. On Golfland at the Beach (#10) my ball kept hitting something and bounced backwards. It wasn't clear what was doing this. After multiple tries it finally went in. (Patrick told me later that you need to get the ball in a narrower passage within the mouth.) The hardest hole for everyone was Video Vision (#4). The easiest hole for everyone was Quack!; we all got that in one stroke. Afterwards we returned upstairs for dinner. We shared: popcorn shrimp with fried lemon and spicy remoulade (which was not too spicy for me), Taylor-made sliders (2-oz beef burger patties, special sauce, American cheese, caramelized onions, house made pickles, brioche bun, special request: four instead of the default three sliders), caesar salad (house-made caesar dressing, croutons and shaved parmesan), the par five pizza (barbecue chicken with caramelized onion, bacon, three-cheese blend, scallions, white sauce). They gave us a ride home. I ran inside to retrieve and return food storage containers that we had borrowed from them the last time we met. A fine evening. To bed early.