11 from last week

Random snippets of potentially useless information from last week which I felt like jotting down.

1. Saturday was Operation Clean House. Took quite a while to get everything done and at the end of the day the apartment looked like it was worth spending all that time on it. Simultaneous chores continued throughout the day, laundry, grocery shopping etc as every weekend and roomie and I were hungry by 6pm. Dined at Piatti on La Jolla shores, recommended by Chris, and got robbed of 3 hours and $60 for a dinner for two. Food was well worth the money spent, though one thing is fo' sho' - no more visits there without reservations.
2. Spent all of Sunday in and out of flights getting to Orlando. I was tired getting from one coast to the other and was worried how mom amd dad would hold up in their 1st ever transcontinental journey. Had a fabulous dinner topped up with a tiramisu on the second consecutive night wondering how I was ever going to succeed shedding those pounds off.
3. Monday was fun day. After a full breakfast and registration done at the conference, we headed over to Universal studios. Lunch at Hard Rock Cafe was followed by lots of rides in both parks. The Incredible Hulk and Dueling Dragons were awesome roller coaster rides; the Revenge of the Mummy on the other hand, could definitely use better seat restraints. I also got a caricature done there :D We headed back to the hotel @ 7:30 and I skipped the welcome event that was scheduled for the night and ordered room service ever so again.
4. Watched a lot of playoff games in the last week. Saw Ginobili go down with a black eye, Nash with Horry, Okur being pulled down by Jason Richardson. Playoff season and emotions run really high and you can definitely expect dramatic games, although this year an unusual lot of blood's been drawn in the Suns-Spurs series.
5. Was woken up by a false fire alarm at 1:30 am on Monday and had to sleepwalk through 11 floors down. Argh!!
6. Was surprised to find that the food quality even in top notch resorts is not consistent on all days. I ordered the penne chicken and tiramisu on 2 different days and every time both of them were served looking and tasting entirely different.
7. Sat through some enlightening sessions at the conference. Like most conferences this one had its share of duds too and I was unlucky to get caught in some of those. Met up with old friends from previous workplaces and got a fillin on who's doing what.
8. The dev server went down once again. Thankfully we could restore normalcy within 10 minutes but this particular problem continues to haunt us without any tracable clues and needs to get sorted quickly.
9. Wednesday evening drove back to Universal for the special event. After sifting through a quick dinner and a never ending lineup of desserts, rode the Hulk once again an innumerable amount of times.
10. Managed to get some value out of the last session of the conference on Thursday and then scurried to the airport. Lunched on awesome linguine with shrimp at one of the eateries in the airport lobby.
11. Reached San Diego after a 15 minute delayed arrival, picked up mom and dad from the airport and took the cab home.
    :End Thursday:

I'll be blogging less frequently now with my folks here for the next 2 months. I'll still aim for atleast once a week, we'll see how it works :)