busy busy busy
July 15th, 2006 Stephen Lau
i so rarely blog about anything personal these days.. to the point that my default new blog post category is now ‘OpenSolaris’. a little bit sad, neh?
i guess that’s what happens when you love your work. oh well. losing some blog audience is a small price to pay i guess 
anyway, after today’s cleanup and reorganising work, my basement is starting to look… well… almost there. two years after we started, with countless distractions along the way (including putting up two windows last weekend), we’re finally done with the drywall. (seriously, we started drywalling two years ago… sad, i know). our next steps are to texturise, and paint the walls/ceiling, and then lay down a floor. once we have those done, the basement will be… well, liveable!
our inner storage room in the basement is finally done, with all the storage in place, and my new workbench area and tool wall all organised.
after a long afternoon of inhaling plaster, we headed down to Milpitas to “Cafe Orphelia” at McCarthy Ranch for some great filet mignon on the “hot rock” grill. they bring out a big rock/stone that’s been super-heated, and you grill your own steak on it. great steak. mmmm…afterwards, we had some red bean shaved ice. we ate all the red bean and then asked the waitress to box up the remaining unfinished ice. she gave us a blank stare and asked why we wanted to save ice? of course, isis was in the car… and she looooooves ice cream, so we thought she might want some shaved ice.
of course, isis lapped it all up - and we have some great photos (which i’ll post tomorrow).
after that, we headed down to Los Altos and tried out the new Satura bakery which was awesome. we got 4 desserts and loved all 4 of them.
and on a very last quickie note: we’re planning on adopting a second beagle. his name is Dusty and he’s 3 years old. i can’t wait!
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Geoff Arnold | July 16th, 2006 at 04:21
Steve: let’s make it “Cafe Orphelia” next time I come to visit - OK?
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Bernie | July 18th, 2006 at 19:17
Yay for more dogs!!
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