Checking in

[mdlbear]

(mostly cross-posted to healthy_fen)

I walked half an hour yesterday -- call it a mile and a half. Eating healthily on Wednesdays is always something of a challenge, since it's our open house night and there's always pizza as well as bread, cheese, and sometimes fruit. Fortunately, I'm not all that fond of pizza these days, and there were apples and blue cheese. We won't mention the hot chicken wings.

Today I'd scheduled a belated Valentine's Day lunch with the flower_cat, so it was looking as though a walk would be unlikely, except that I crossed paths with one of my coworkers, finagler. Brad, like me, likes to walk while he's thinking, and he was working on a presentation about the project we're both working on. (Cool stuff, but I can't say much until the patent is filed, at the earliest.) We put in about 2 miles walking round and round the building (it's about 1/3 mile).

We had lunch today at Chef Chu's in Los Altos; it was already a fixture in the area when I arrived as a grad student in '69, and was my introduction to Szechuan Chinese food. It was one of two favorites of the Stanford AI Lab crowd, the other being Hsi Nan in Palo Alto. The Cat and I spent a lot of time in both restaurants while we were courting, so a Valentine's lunch at Chef Chu's was perfectly appropriate.

Dinner today was stir-fried pork and sugar-snap peas, with an apple and blue cheese for desert.