Man Day and Mikes House

Jodi was down in Orange County this week visiting a friend. She was due back late Saturday so I had some spare time. Friday night i headed over to Mike's house to help him and his dad do some wiring. Mike is remodeling his house and has all of 2 rooms that were untouched by his plan. After a a few hours of pig-tailing sockets, Coors Light, and some pizza I called it a Friday.

Saturday my buddy Raven and I had ourselves a lovely little metro-man day in Marin. We started at something called the Bay Model. Back in the 50's the Army constructed a working model of the San Francisco and adjoining bays. Here they could study the effects of diverting water ways in the delta and the impact it would have on the bay. They simulate a full 24 hour day in tides every 14 minutes. The result is a big @ss pool that shows how crazy and dangerous the currents in the bay can be, especially around the golden gate bridge. Today the Bay Model is retired, and they use much more accurate computer simulation to achieve the same effect.

After the Bay model we headed over to Tiburon to check out a winery. The weather was crappy so the town was pretty dead. After some heavy pours at the tasting room we headed over to San Rafael to eat some Puerto Rican food at a place called Sol Food. Raven had been there before and recommended it. I got a shrimp dish over rice with garlic fried plantains that was unreal. We capped off our day at Marin coffee roasters in Fairfax, hippie town USA. There seems to be an economy of selling hippie crap up there. There were about 10 shops that basically had the same theme, some looked like a glorified yard sale behind glass. It kind of reminded me of the Pacific Garden mall in Santa Cruz 25 years ago.