Well fed and slightly boggled

[mdlbear]

Went out with the flower_cat for a delightful dinner at California Cafe in Los Gatos Old Town. Cups of gazpacho, a plate of baked brie (with apricot jam and a bulb of roasted garlic), and the Fruits de Mer platter for two (lobster tail, oysters, shrimp cocktail [with dry ice smoking under the bowl], and snow crab legs. Finished up with a cheese platter and café mocha for desert. (Actually, the Cat had the "Marvelous Mocha", which was alcoholic and yummy. But since I'd already had a Guinness with dinner...

I'd brought home the rest of the CDs mere minutes before we left for dinner, so we came home to a pile of boxes with a street price retail value of $15K. Mind-boggling.

(The Y.D. is still out for burger-and-a-movie, by the way, which is why the Cat and I were able to go out for dinner at a comparatively elegant restaurant that the kid wouldn't have been happy at.)

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[mdlbear]

Good beer of all sorts, though I lean heavily toward the dark side.

The kids are weird -- they love seafood, especially sushi, crab, and lobster. But they don't really feel comfortable in fancy places, and generally prefer their fish in the form of fish-and-chips if they can't get it raw over rice.

There was a small fig with the cheese plate.