No, I didn’t make it to the weekly San Francisco Happy Hour, but a couple of guys from work and I grabbed a few bottles of beer and went to the beach below Diamond Head to watch the sunset. We were drinking beer out of brown paper bags. Sweet.
After our “happy hour,” we went to the University of Hawaii baseball game – they won! Go Rainbows! Yes, their mascot is a rainbow. But as an alumni of two schools whose mascot is the color red (Big Red and Cardinal) I can’t really poke fun. They have Gordon Biersch garlic fries at the UH baseball games, just like at the Giants games… except (after getting my hopes way up) they were nowhere near as good. Oh well. It was a fun night anyway.
The “happy hour” on the beach was actually my second waterfront happy hour this week – on Tuesday a guy from work who is a member of the Outrigger Canoe Club took a couple of us to the half price happy hour there. It is a members-only kind of place – sort of like a yacht club, but for outrigger canoes. It’s a great spot for happy hour – waterfront drinking and dining at the Diamond Head end of Waikiki. Jake, my co-worker and the club member who was hosting, has promised to take me out on his outrigger canoe, anchor it, and freedive spearfish from it! I’m pretty excited to try that!
Last night Olga and Victor took me out to dinner at Nobu – high end Japanese fusion. It was all very good, but the Black Cod Saikyo Miso has to be one of the most rich and delicious pieces of fish I’ve ever had. Apparently they marinate it mirin, miso paste, and sugar for 3 days before they bake it. It was so luscious that it could have been dessert. Wow.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the rain will hold off for Saturday morning – I booked an 8:30AM surfing lesson. It’s a 2 1/2 hour lesson, with 2 hours in the water, so hopefully I will manage to catch a wave by myself before the lesson is over! I will keep you posted on that!
Work is going well – apparently the trade show our team was at early this week went as well as it possibly could have – everyone was impressed by the live demo and several key companies seem to be convinced that our technology is the real deal! The people who traveled got back from the trade show yesterday, and the work is already piling up today – there may not be any happy hours next week.
