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Jeff and I were running errands in the Marina and decided to drive through the Presidio and Lands End to have lunch at the Legion of Honor museum–a little gem focusing on European art, including its popular Rodin sculpture collection. Along the way, we stopped at China Beach…a tiny, tucked-away cove in the Seacliff neighborhood. It was a gray day, so there wasn’t much activity on the beach…just a few isolated folks, like this girl feeding the birds.

I think in the next scene, she catches them and pops their heads off.

The Legion of Honor uses the same food concessionaire as the de Young museum…one of our favorite lunch spots…so the menu is small, but organic and tasty. I tried this yummy Asian salad.

A tip of my cap to a brave coworker who was bold enough to grab a wedge of blue cheese from a communal cheese platter–the entire wedge, mind you–and to dip the aforementioned wedge into a cup of ketchup…twice.

The look of disgust on his face was classic. The looks of surprise around the rest of the table were priceless.

I suppose you never know where the next great food trend will come from!

FYI, I'm happy to report that tonight's pot roast turned out wonderfully. I mashed up a tried-and-true, crowd-pleasing recipe from Jeff's mom with some tasty additions from Emeril. The result was easy, but with some punch…primarily from the ten cloves of garlic I buried into crevices in the meat.

The wine was nicely complimented by an Australian red wine that Chris brought us from his recent trip down under.

Tonight, the aroma of a slow-roasting savory pot roast is wafting through the house, we’re planning our October vacation, and a cool breeze is setting off our wind chimes. Quiet Sunday evenings are the perfect time to reflect on the week past…and wonder where the time flew.

Catching up a bit. Last Sunday, we took a drive with our friend Paolo up to Napa to walk around St. Helena, have lunch in Rutherford, and taste wines along the Silverado Trail. It was the maiden voyage of Jeff’s new Audi A4–a classy ‘quartz grey’–which we picked up on Saturday.

Tuesday, I flew to Seattle for two nights. I returned to the convenient Seattle Hilton, which is directly across from my team’s client office.

Dinner the first night was my usual fun dinner at Two Bells with Jeff–the burgers were particularly good Tuesday. Jeff had to dart off to the airport to pick up his visiting mother, so I switched Jeffs…as in Jeff and Molly…two friends of MY Jeff at home in San Francisco. (Anyone confused?) Jeff and Molly and I shared a fine bottle at the Local Vine wine bar.

Dinner #2 was at a cozy local Belltown eatery called Restaurant Zoe…there were no Jeffs involved that evening. I had an amazing wild boar pasta dish…in addition to the fine company of my local team who found this little gem of a restaurant.

I did snap this very hazy (and blue) shot of Mt. St. Helens on the way north. I thought it was cool in spite of the poor quality.

I think we pissed off the automotive gods this weekend when we replaced Jeff’s ten-year-old Taurus with a flashy new Audi A4.

My Avis rental today? Yep…a Taurus. Strangely enough, in ten years, they haven’t improved the @*#(@&% turning radius.