I'm at the San Jose airport, waiting for my flight home, and testing out my laptop's new wireless card. I had an excellent time here in the Bay Area, as always.

On Thursday, I got together with an old high-school buddy of mine at Da Hukilau in San Jose's Japantown. The Hawaiian food was great and pretty authentic (brown gravy, macaroni salad, fried eggs, and SPAM!), and dose tropical drinks were plenty strong, brah!

Friday night, I drove over to Emeryville, with my friends Ron and Kim, to see a gallery exhibit coordinated by Kathryn Hill, a photographer that all three of us know from LiveJournal. Afterwards, we drove over to the nearby Trader Vic's and enjoyed some good food, drink, and conversation. We were joined by Kathryn's friends, Jill and John, also LiveJournalistas, and lovely folks to boot. We had a great table by the window, overlooking the Bay, where we could watch twilight slowly creeping over the hills and twinkly lights switching on in the growing darkness.

The food and drink at Vic's was superb, as always. I forwent my usual Mai Tai, and had a couple of Navy Grogs instead. I really like the rock-candy swizzle sticks they put in them that let you adjust the sweetness to your liking.

The high temps at home are right around zero degrees today...it's 60 degrees and sunny here. [sigh]