dr4b | I shot the sherriff

Hmmmm.. today was okay, I guess. After some confusion about what I was actually going to do tonight, I called Brian G on my way home from work to see if he still wanted to get dinner. He did, and since he knows a lot more restaurants than I do, he called up and made a reservation at a place called Eva, down in that little nook of yuppie restaurants east of the south end of Greenlake. The place is apparently a wine bar / restaurant, and they are part of the "25 for $25" thing going on, so we both decided to try the prix fixe; he had prawn-and-lentil salad (which is exactly what it sounds like; a pile of prawns and lentils) and roast chicken, and lemon tart. I had a fairly standard endive-and-goat-cheese salad, and seared tuna, and pumpkin cheesecake. The tuna was absolutely perfect; the rest was pretty good as well. Brian decided to make me try some wine; he got a white wine, Reisling or something like that, and it was okay, I guess, but I just don't really like the taste of wine. This one wasn't awful, but I had one glass and that was it.

After dinner we went over to this guy Mike's place where people were playing games; we showed up and there were four people playing Bang! so we joined them for a six player game. I usually hate Bang, but this was a group who was just learning to play so it wasn't so bad. Infact, I was the renegade and it came down to me and the sherriff, and I got him down to one bullet before he took me out. I don't think I've ever seen the renegade come so close to winning.

Came home after that since it was pushing 11:30, and here I am. Hanging out with Brian is fun since I don't have that many friends out here who I've known since pretty much my first week at CMU in the fall of '94, and we always have a lot of fun catching up on stuff, plus he actually seems to be going through the same sort of "why is my life not going anywhere?" phase I am. Stupid lake.

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We have been going to the Fredericksburg Wine Festival (and others all over VA) for many years. That's how one gets to taste different wines. I still like the white wines the most. If you tell me what kind of taste you are looking for, I'll buy a bottle of VA wine and bring it with us for Thanksgiving. We'll have it at Debbie's place. Nevin and I still like white zinfandel which is not a sweet wine. There are some delicious sweet dessert wines you may like too - like peach fuzz and one with a pear flavor was good too. Let me know.