I’d say we had a pretty uneventful weekend, ’cause that’s certainly how it felt, but in many respects, it was actually pretty interesting.

Friday night, we went out to dinner at a Korean place called “Luxury”. (there’s a review on food.helava.com by Ei-Nyung) I got some curry rice, ’cause I just had a hankering for some, and wondered how it’d be different from what we make at home (answer: not very – they put in more stuff – mushrooms, zucchini, etc., but the basic sauce is clearly from the same box we get ours from). It was tasty, though, and exactly what I wanted. Ei-Nyung got a soup that had some wacky dough flakes in it that was quite tasty (and unbelievably HUGE) as well.

Strangely, we ran into a friend of ours (more of a friend of a friend, but who’s counting?) there, who we hadn’t seen in like a year or more.

Saturday morning, we took the dog for a walk and lounged around. I played some Lost Planet, which is a good, but not great game. In the afternoon, we took BART over to the city to meet up with H&M to go check out a comet that was supposed to be visible for a few minutes at sunset. We ended up at the Sutro Baths, which are basically the ruins of some old public baths near Ocean Beach, looking out over the Pacific Ocean. The sunset was great, and just watching the waves crash against the rocks was worth making the trip out there for.

As the sun set, we were looking intently at the horizon, trying to see something that was supposed to be very close to the sun. Just as we were about to give up, M, who’d been telling us humorous, but totally untrue stories all night, was saying, “Well, at least we’ll always have the memory… WAIT! THERE IT IS!” and pointed. All of us were like, “Sure, dude. Whatever,” but indeed, he’d seen it. It was much higher in the sky than we’d originally thought, but there it was. No, I didn’t take a picture, and I doubt it would have been visible on a photo, anyway.

Still, it was nice to see. Apparently, it’s the brightest comet we’ll see for the next 30 years.

After that, we pondered where to go for dinner, before settling on Andalu, a tapas place near H’s (soon to be H&M’s) place. We’d been there for H’s post-triathlon dinner, and it didn’t let us down. Their Coke-braised ribs were still awesome, and everything we had was pretty darned good. Because Ei-Nyung & I have been eating less, we even got out of there for a reasonable price – $80 for the four of us.

We ended up back at H’s place, where I checked out her Mac (I’ve been eyeing a MacBook), then played Guitar Hero 2 for hours and hours. Good times.

Today was similarly chill. Some Lost Planet, then shopping for groceries and a haircut. Ei-Nyung made some delicious rosemary roasted sweet potatoes, parsnips, and carrots, while I made a puff-pastry wrapped, mushroom-stuffed chicken breast recipe from one of Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks. We watched Gordon Ramsay’s “The F Word” while waiting for stuff to finish. Fun show – the premise is a little weird, and I won’t bother explaining it here, but he basicaly makes a number of very simple, but elegant dishes – the kind of thing one might make at home relatively easily, provided access to the proper ingredients.

Ei-Nyung’s got tomorrow off, but I don’t, so it’s off to bed for me, so that I can get up early and hit the pool.

The resolution’s going well. I’m down to ~224, from a starting weight of about 233 (though the official “Wii Contest” weigh-in weight, in jeans and a t-shirt, was 238.) I’ve been swimming every morning where I don’t walk the dog. My stomach’s already a little smaller, I felt some muscle in my shoulders, and basically am looking a little less blobby.

Also, got some new glasses – they’ve got transition lenses, which is sort of ridiculous, but also, surprisingly useful. They change color relatively quickly, which is nice, and even when “dark,” they’re not overly dark, but also not “underly” dark, either.

Probably looks ridiculous, but I couldn’t really care less. 🙂

Oh – also, borrowed some comics from a coworker: Y: The Last Man (pretty good – interesting premise, decent writing, okay art), Conan (pretty good art, really good writing, interesting premise, has gotten me interested in reading the original Conan books, though not interested as much in watching the movie), and The Astonishing X-Men (written by Joss Whedon, drawn by John Cassaday – both absolutely incredible talents. Not only that, it REALLY harkens back to my favorite period of the X-Men (feels very much like late ’80’s-early ’90’s). I can’t recommend it enough to anyone who was a fan of the X-Men comics when they were in high school).