Renegade Folk Hero

Went to Pick Up Stix on Blossom Hill and Santa Teresa. Chinese semi-fast food. Pretty good food, even if it was heavily americanized. Andrew had $10 off coupons so we got 3 entreés. House Special Chicken (A-); Sichuan Beef (B+); Garlic Beef (B-). A nice restaurant experience over all, except that the plastic plates were ridiculously small, not ideal for sharing entreés. The food, with 3 entreés, was overly abundant and Andrew and I each got to take some home. Rather expensive though, after the $10 off and 1/2 off the eggrolls, the total still came to $20 split two ways.

Pick Up Stix

I went to go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Andrew at the Oakridge 20. Excellent movie. Performances were solid, visual effects were beautiful, story and plot were cohesive. Even while it had a lot of musical numbers in it, I didn’t even notice or mind as the story telling was so well done. When comparing to the Wilder Movie, it can be said that the FX make Burton’s movie much more psychedelic. However, because of Burton’s focus and attention on the characters and story, the new movie is much less psycho-tropic (that’s a good thing). I also liked how all the bad parents and children got their kick in the ass. I think parents across america should go see this movie, if they see themselves or their kids portrayed on screen they should duly kick themselves in the ass.

5 stars for C&tCF
*****
Burton and Depp hit a home run.

 

After the movie I did Andrew a favor and drove him home from the grocery store.

Half of the office went to chinese food; the half that I went with went to Sonoma Chicken Coop in Campbell. Their Garlic Chicken Alfredo was disappointing. While it was light and decent flavorwise, it really wasn’t your classic Alfredo sauce. The linguine didn’t really play well in the sauce and the chicken was dry. Good garnish though.

My recommendation for Sonoma Chicken is still the quarter-chicken in lemon vinigarette. Better value and more satisfying and flavorful.

Sonoma Chicken

I’ve been really tired lately. I don’t know why, but I’ve been somewhat of an insomniac lately. Even though I stay awake almost all day, I still don’t end up getting to sleep until past 10pm, often times closer to 1am or 2am. Today I was late for work again. I got here at 9:35am just in time to find out that my weekly group meeting had been rescheduled to 9:30am. Oops.

At least, I feel that I am learning a lot of unspoken etiquette. I really like this job.