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:: Thursday, November 28th, 2002 @ 1:17:00 am

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My family and I went out for a wonderful dinner at Sushi Ota to celebrate my father’s birthday before heading down to Hillcrest to see Frida (in an empty theater). The drive down to San Diego was relatively uneventful. Actually, it’s good to be here, where I won’t be shaken awake by earthquakes (or by the construction across the street) in the early mornings. :)

Going to bed now. Here are some photos:

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A beautiful tree outside of my old place in Mountain View. When green, it photographs wonderfully in infrared. [see it in ir] [see more ir photos]

At a rest stop, while fueling up during the drive down the grapevine...

Sheep!

My Mom hides behind Wendy.

Delivering a Tivo to Norm and Teri. They were very excited.

Wendy, eating her spinach and bacon omelette.

Wendy and my dad, at the Hide Away Cafe

Discharging my lights before charging them up.

Sushi Ota, Course #2: Fresh, raw lobster, urchin, toro, geoduck, shiso leaf, and seaweed.

Sushi Ota, Course #3: Fish, tomato, cracker made out of little fishies, ginko leaf

Sushi Ota, Course #4: Misc. meat wrapped in shiso leaf and fried, fried yam, ginko nuts, rock salt with curry powder

Sushi Ota, Course #5: Misc. Rolls (toro, red snapper, soft-shell crab, eel, yellowtail)

Sushi Ota, Course #6: Remember that raw lobster? Here's the rest of it, in miso soup.

Store display in Hillcrest, probably for the Day of the Dead

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1. posted by jeannie on Thu, November 28, 2002 @ 3:22 pm

   hiya!
   those are some fancy japanese dishes there ~ drool ~ man, now i’m craving sushi for thanksgiving dinner tonight…
   
   great photos by the way!

2. posted by jeannie on Thu, November 28, 2002 @ 3:24 pm

   hiya!
   those are some fancy japanese dishes there ~ drool ~ man, now i’m craving sushi for thanksgiving dinner tonight…
   
   great photos by the way!

3. posted by MichaelE on Thu, November 28, 2002 @ 3:59 pm

   YUM!!! Man! Lobster Miso Soup?!?! Now I have something to try to hunt down in the restaurants on the East Coast! Great shots as usual Eric!

4. posted by Chester on Fri, November 29, 2002 @ 2:53 pm

   [De-lurking Again] I like that Grapevine shot…was the blue that way or did you muck with levels in PS…polarizer? And, wow…no vignetting…hood?

5. posted by echeng on Fri, November 29, 2002 @ 5:58 pm

   very slight photoshop mucking on the grapevine shot — the blue just came out that way. I’d expect a very dark blue at the top, if I had used a polarizer.
   
   And never any vignetting with the D60 because hoods are built for full-sized sensors. :)

6. posted by Chester on Mon, December 02, 2002 @ 2:06 am

   "And never any vignetting with the D60 because hoods are built for full-sized sensors."
   
   Doh. Duh. Just goes to show you that, while there may not be any such thing as a stupid question, there certainly are stupid questioners.

7. posted by syndromes on Tue, December 03, 2002 @ 12:44 pm

   Hey man! In my stomping grounds and not so much as a "Hullo!" ya rat bastard! ;)
   
   Anyhew, hope you had fun down here ;) My friends are really buddy buddy with Kazumi (Kazoomi? sp?) in Hillcrest as well and they rave about it. But I know jack shit about japanese food. Hai!

8. posted by echeng on Tue, December 03, 2002 @ 12:48 pm

   hehehe. sorry, man. it was family time. :) i am rarely home for long enough to look beyond the few friends that I have left there. it’s too bad. maybe i should plan a longer excursion to san diego sometime.

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