Wasted Continuum

I am taking a short break from blogging. As you may have noticed, I have not written many posts in the last month. For me, blogging takes time. I have been, for one reason or another, very inefficient with my time. I have a lot of small, but significant things in my life that is just sucking up the time out of my days. Continue Reading »

I am back from Houston and so glad to be home. I’ve missed my bed. Houston was incredible. I totally had a foodies vacation. 95% of what I did while I was there was eat and the food was amazing. I’ll write about the more in later posts. In the meantime, I uploaded some photos from two weekends ago when I was in San Francisco plus some missing 365 photos. I had limited access to the internet while I was in Houston. I will post photos from my trip throughout the week.

I’m flying out to Houston Friday morning. It will be my first time there. I am visiting my friend, Linh. Hopefully, I’ll be eating like crazy. I’ll have limited or no internet access down there. As always, I will be twittering throughout my trip. If you want to see what I’m up to, follow my twitter. I’m JavaJunky on there too. I will be back in Minnesota on Tuesday night. Expect photos.

Our office closed at 3pm and we all went to an open house party hosted by one of our vendors. There was free food and free booze. I also got a tour of their CD/DVD production line. I saw the whole process from when the disc is resin to molding into disc form to printing on it to packaging. It was kind of cool. Also entered a Guitar Hero contest and was in solid 2nd place. Not bad for my 6th song ever played in that game. I also ran into one of my teachers from the art school I went to.

Around 6pm, my coworkers and I went to the local racetrack, Canterbury Park. for another party hosted by another vendor. Again, more free food and free drink. The drinks were very watered down though. We watched the horsies race while fighting off a deadly bee and enjoying our refreshments. It was fun.

My friend, Linh, came back to Minnesota this weekend. We spent the bulk of Saturday together. We started with lunch at True Thai in Minneapolis. It was good. The price was also not bad compared to other Thai restaurants around the Twin Cities. After lunch, we took a walk through the Uptown Art Fair. I haven’t been to it in maybe three years. I think the last time I was there it was also ridiculously hot. I had my camera with me and finally gave my new Sigma 10-20mm lens a good break in. There were plenty of cool artwork to be seen. I really didn’t see anything that I wanted to purchase though. After the Art Fair, we went our separate ways for dinner. I had a large family dinner to go to.

After dinner, I met up with Linh and a group of her friends at the Imperial Room. It was my first time there. They have a slightly strict dress code. Luckily I was presentable. I had a fair amount of alcohol, but wasn’t able to get drunk without breaking the bank. That was a bummer. I still had fun. Worked the dance floor a little. It was all good.

All in all, it was a great day. I really needed it after working like crazy lately. It was mentally relaxing.

Uptown Art Fair Flickr set

I hope everyone is having a great fourth for those of you in America. Everyone else, I hope you’re having a happy Friday. I was originally going to go on a family road trip to Chicago, but I had a family crisis earlier this week that will make it difficult to do that. This is why I haven’t written many posts this week. My family is getting back to normal now. Have a great holiday. Take a lot of photos!