Well I said I’d post again in January, and so I shall.\u00a0 But, despite what well may be the longest respite from my “weekly” posting since the inception of this thing, I don’t have all that much to cover.\u00a0 Oh we’ve been busy, I just don’t have the memory to go over everything.\u00a0 What I DO have, I suppose, is a brief recollection of the New Years weekend, and a bunch of pictures of food.<\/p>\n
For the latest of the three-day weekends, we drove down to San Francisco with a car load of friends for a few nights.\u00a0 I’m a fan;\u00a0 Big city, lots to do, lots to eat…\u00a0 Ideal weekend in my book.\u00a0 We got there Saturday afternoon and parked the car at the hotel (where it would remain for the duration of the weekend) and set about doing our thing.\u00a0 We don’t really have a thing, so we had to make do.\u00a0 Not too much to note really.\u00a0 We enjoyed happy hour in a skyscraper with incredible views.\u00a0 We ate lots of incredible food, and way too much of it.\u00a0 We found decent barbecue.\u00a0 And we celebrated the New Year, if from the safety of our hotel room.\u00a0 As for New Year’s Eve, we went to Wayfare Tavern<\/a> in the financial district with a large group for dinner.\u00a0 I don’t know how this worked out, but it’s the same place we ate two years ago when we were there for the same holiday.\u00a0 I found it rather curious that the menu was exactly the same as two years ago, given the short list of choices, but it was delicious all the same.\u00a0 We indulged in far too many starters though, it effectively ruined our main course.\u00a0 I can safely say I’ve never payed that much for a steak and then just left it sitting on the plate, but I was in such misery that the mere sight of it made me a little queasy.\u00a0 Live and learn.<\/p>\n Monday was the drive back up the hill, which was pleasantly uneventful.\u00a0 We were pretty much done for when we got to the house.\u00a0 We’re both fighting moderately nasty colds so there was a lot of bowl games involved in the remainder of the day.\u00a0 I did actually get out and go for a bike ride though, if only to say I started the year off right.\u00a0 The main factor in that decision was that it was 65 degrees out.\u00a0 If you get a 65 degree day on January 1 and don’t take advantage of it, well I guess shame on you.\u00a0 It was quite enjoyable, hopefully I can keep some measure of consistency going with the cycling this year.\u00a0 After that I made a seafood stew<\/a> that came out pretty well, and then back to the couch.<\/p>\n\n\t\t