What a Saturday

So this morning started out early with a Dentist appointment. Luckily it wasn’t my appointment, it was Lisa’s. So we got up and went to Oakland for her appointment. On the way there this crazy bitch in a beater car pulled out on to a 4 lane road right in to oncoming traffic. I was in the second lane and I had to pull in to the third lane to miss her. The worst part is that she just kept coming! So anyway, we arrived at the office promptly at 9:00. She went in and I hopped on to my laptop. I was determined to get my feet wet in java by trying to smash a bug in the techTribe app. It was simple, add search capability for the site admin to find a user using the user’s ID. It is a simple database query. Well, come to find out it is already implemented in the backend so all I had to do is create a frontend call for it and format the output. So, no java dev, but all XSL dev. Good news, I got it done before Lisa was out of her appointment….

So next we decided to go to REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.) in Berkeley because they are having one of their “Garage Sales”. Basically, at REI, you can return almost anything at anytime for any reason, so when they get the used equipment, they have to get rid of it somewhere… So they have these “Members Only Garage Sales”. So we get there at like 10:00 and get tickets to get in for 11:40… That was how many people were ahead of us! So for an hour and a half we walk around the store and find plenty of fun things to keep us occupied. 11:40 rolls around and we go in. Nothing really to be had worth anything. There was a pair of almost new Evolv climbing shoes for like $40 but there were size 10 and I wear size 11… SUCK! Oh and there was a pair of beat up climbing shoes that said “Reason for Return: Didn’t fit quite right, didn’t notice for seven years”… LMAO, returned seven years later! Amazing! We bought some climbing chalk and left.

So after we left REI, it was time for lunch. Lisa and I decided on Zachary’s Pizza. The best pizza in the east bay in my opinion. I got lost trying to get there as usual but we finally got there. Oh Zachary’s Deep Dish, how I love thee! We order the Mushroom, Spinach, Chicken pizza. It was good but I think that Lisa is right when she says that deep dish needs to be a “Meat Pizza” with sausage and pepperoni and such. It really makes the hearty flavor.

We left Pizza heaven with bellies full and decided to go for a walk down the strip there. We went in to a shop that had awesome Buddhist items for a garden and in the home. Then we went in to a furniture shop that had no beds… hmm… Lastly there was “Rosebud Gallery”… This place was a work of art. It was a junk shop with gallery prices… what a joke. There were a lot of awesome things but it was just too expensive for what it was.

We left and went to Wal-Mart for some laundry detergent…but they were sold out of Roma Detergent in two different stores… am I missing something?! Sold out?! Seriously!? So we left and headed back for Alameda. On Park St, we found the Alameda Video Game Exchange. They had everything from Atari to PS3! It was awesome!

Lastly, we went to Fudgelato and got some awesome Gelato. I got Chocolate Hazelnut with Dark Chocolate and Lisa got something with coconut and mint. We came home and passed out!

What a Saturday!