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In just a few days, I’ll be headed out with the guys for a little Okay Samurai reunion out in San Francisco, where Dave lives. Also, my paper that was due on the Monday after we get back, got pushed to the following Monday. A whole 7 more days to procrastinate! It’s just nice because I won’t have to be worrying about it all weekend. We’ll be out there Thursday night through Sunday, and I can’t wait to get out there. There are so many things to do, but here’s a list of things I really hope we get to do:

• Visit Alcatraz
• Watch Dave perform at O’Neill’s Irish Pub
• Visit Minor Studios‘ office on Fremont
• Rent bikes and ride across the Golden Gate Bridge over to Sausalito or Tiburon
• Wii Sports showdown
• Burritos from La Taqueria the Mission District
• Ride a cable car at Powell St, have a Beard Papa creampuff in the food court

Those last two bullet items, I have no idea anything about, but Dave put it in the list of possible things to do, so we’ll see what happens! You can bet that Dave and I will be taking tons of pictures and videos to document the weekend…

This weekend was a busy one with both my Mom and Amanda’s birthdays to celebrate.
For my Mom’s birthday we met at Bangkok 54 in South Arlington. I’ve heard good things about it, and passed it many times on the way to the Arlington Cinema n’ Drafthouse but never eaten there. The food was good, above average for some of the Thai places that I’ve eaten. On the other hand, I can confirm the common complaint that the restaurant is on the noisy side, and it wouldn’t hurt to investigate some noise dampening.

Amanda’s birthday celebration spanned two weekends. If you haven’t checked out my Flickr photostream, pictures from last weekend’s limo excursion out to the Leesburg wineries is up here. Last night we celebrated again with more friends in DC at one of our favorite places, Matchbox. Of course we got our favorite sliders with addictive onion strings, washed it down with a few De Koninck beers, and followed it up with a few more at Buffalo Billiards in Dupont. Busy weekend, but ready for this week to get started.

It was a busy out of town weekend. Starting in Leesburg for Amy & Jeremy’s wedding. They had an awesome mariachi band that played during the cocktail hour and pre-ceremony. And because the wedding was a JMU wedding, there were tons of old friends from college. Congrats to Amy & Jeremy…

The next day, Amanda and I headed down to Richmond (2x in 2 weeks!) for an engagement party. More eating and drinking ensued, as well as some late night pool debauchery. Check out the sets from both nights below:

Amy & Jeremy’s Wedding Set

Randy & Meredith’s Engagement Party Set

I had a great time at the Juniper Lane show this past Saturday at the usual Clarendon venue: Iota Club & Cafe. The picture above was a mistake that turned out kinda cool…Check out the set to see the rest here.

Pictures from my Grandfather’s birthday party are up on Flickr. He turned 96 on Monday. Check out the set here on Flickr.