Well I said I’d post again in January, and so I shall.  But, despite what well may be the longest respite from my “weekly” posting since the inception of this thing, I don’t have all that much to cover.  Oh we’ve been busy, I just don’t have the memory to go over everything.  What I DO have, I suppose, is a brief recollection of the New Years weekend, and a bunch of pictures of food.

For the latest of the three-day weekends, we drove down to San Francisco with a car load of friends for a few nights.  I’m a fan;  Big city, lots to do, lots to eat…  Ideal weekend in my book.  We got there Saturday afternoon and parked the car at the hotel (where it would remain for the duration of the weekend) and set about doing our thing.  We don’t really have a thing, so we had to make do.  Not too much to note really.  We enjoyed happy hour in a skyscraper with incredible views.  We ate lots of incredible food, and way too much of it.  We found decent barbecue.  And we celebrated the New Year, if from the safety of our hotel room.  As for New Year’s Eve, we went to Wayfare Tavern in the financial district with a large group for dinner.  I don’t know how this worked out, but it’s the same place we ate two years ago when we were there for the same holiday.  I found it rather curious that the menu was exactly the same as two years ago, given the short list of choices, but it was delicious all the same.  We indulged in far too many starters though, it effectively ruined our main course.  I can safely say I’ve never payed that much for a steak and then just left it sitting on the plate, but I was in such misery that the mere sight of it made me a little queasy.  Live and learn.

Monday was the drive back up the hill, which was pleasantly uneventful.  We were pretty much done for when we got to the house.  We’re both fighting moderately nasty colds so there was a lot of bowl games involved in the remainder of the day.  I did actually get out and go for a bike ride though, if only to say I started the year off right.  The main factor in that decision was that it was 65 degrees out.  If you get a 65 degree day on January 1 and don’t take advantage of it, well I guess shame on you.  It was quite enjoyable, hopefully I can keep some measure of consistency going with the cycling this year.  After that I made a seafood stew that came out pretty well, and then back to the couch.