Dumplings making with my co-workers

Brace for impact... I'm finally getting around to unloading my camera pictures since I fell off the blogging boat mid-2018!

First up, my company had a dumplings-making workshop as a team-building/culture sort of thing. We didn't actually make the dumpling skins, which I had kind of hoped we would, just the filling, according to the recipes they gave. Some select pictures...

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ConJose 2018

Finally, pictures from ConJose, the WorldCon held in San Jose! I'd been meaning to post these for a while but fell ill for a bit, then never got around to it, as the backlog grew bigger and bigger. Aiee.

We started the day off getting there early so as to minimize problems with parking, so my notes assure me, with a "What If This Goes On" panel with Kaja Foglio and Harry Turtledove, and maybe a few other panelists. Then it was off to Johnny Rocket for lunch...

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Cherry Blossom Festival 2019

Skipping Further Confusion-- only a few not-especially-good pictures for that one-- the next significant event on my phone is the Cherry Blossom Festival, up in San Francisco. It's always a good time up there!

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FanimeCon 2019

Sometime after that was FanimeCon 2019! As mewsual, I trekked down to Dracosphynx's place and we caravan-ed to San Jose and found parking bright and early, then browsed around.

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Left Bank Brasserie

Somewhat after my birthday, but with Auntie Betty in the area, I got together with Auntie Betty, Auntie Margaret, my cousin Randall, and my brother Brian, at a lunch at Left Bank Brasserie, a French "lunch" sort of bistro-- I had been pondering something a bit fancier but they seemed uncomfortable with the idea of going somewhere really pricey.

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Random Food 2019, Homemade and Restaurant

I deleted a bunch of 'regular' food images but here are some of those that survived the cut:

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Company Xmas 2019

This year the company holiday party was to be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View... Which is almost literally 5 minutes away from my house, so I really had no excuse not to go. So off we go...

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