Coffeeneuring Trip 5: Which looks a lot like Errandonneuring

Well, it feels like a cop-out to get grocery store coffee. No plans, no cute local place, no fun bike ride with friends. Just prying myself out of the house to go get stuff for dinner, and grabbing a quick cup of coffee from the grocery store. On the other hand, the blend had the same name as my preferred operating system. So there's that.

Why did I do such a frumpy ride? Well lets go back 3 weeks ago to a reasonably nice restaurant in Oakland... Which, I didn't go to, I actually have yet to go there, and if I had, I would have been fine, since I don't eat meat. However, my boyfriend is a fan of the burgers there. And unfortunately there was a bit of an E. Coli outbreak there. You can probably see where this is going, it involved the hospital, and him feeling awful, and me worrying because we didn't know what was wrong for a while, and then, I spent last weekend in San Francisco for an interview! Which is not the greatest timing, although he was definitely doing better when it was time for me to leave.

I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting something here... oh yeah. I wrecked my bike. And when I say "I wrecked my bike" I mean my bike can't bike anymore. This wouldn't be so bad except I just got it fixed the previous Friday.

So yeah, after I got back I had to catch up on all the things I couldn't do due to worrying or being in California, so I'm kind of tired. I don't want to graduate in May. I didn't really visit SF under the best circumstances, I don't know if I like it there. Heck, I don't even know if I'm going to get an offer, I don't know what to do if I do get one. Change is scary. I barely know what day of the week it is since I'm alternating between "must be Thursday or something" to "What do you mean it's not Sunday? Sweet. Extra weekend day." I decided to take Cherry to the store. She's crazy light. Got stuff for fried rice. As well as some cheese and crackers, and a back of cheese puff things since I kind of want something that is snack-ish. I also stopped by the Wine & Spirits store and got some Mead. I hope it's good. Anyway, back to low energy mode, because high energy mode sucks.

Oh yeah, I also biked over the new South Highland Bridge. It's pretty nice. A lot more open than the old one, there's no walls between the road and the sidewalk now.

In conclusion:

Date: 11/9/2013

Coffee shop: Whole Foods

What I had: Small Coffee (the blend was called Ubuntu"

Miles: 2ish

Party: shank

Coffeeneuring Trip 2: In which assumptions lead to their platitudinal conclusion.

So there's a couple things to keep in mind while biking around to get coffee. One of which I encountered during my first trip, which is whether or not my destination is cash only. Unfortunately this trip I learned that assuming somewhere that sells coffee would be open at 11:00 isn't always a reasonable assumption to make.

Anyway, I had a thing that I was supposed to get to at 11:00, 11:45 at the absolute latest and thought it would be a good idea to have some coffee in me prior to being busy all day. And I wanted some company this time, so I planned to leave around 10:30, go to Oh Yeah! with Margaret, and get to the thing only slightly late.

Unfortunately, I had the hours wrong, and by wrong I mean I assumed they would be open. Not my finest moment. After a little biking around we ended up going to Bagel Factory in Shadyside. And to be honest, Baggel Factry kind of sucks. The coffee was okay (again, just got plain coffee), the cupcake was good, but nothing special, and the bagel was... meh. Almost worse than meh. Too much cream cheese that didn't quite taste right. Bleh. Yes, I think bleh is the word I'm going to go with.

Oh well. The company was good, even if the service and food was suboptimal. And that just leaves Oh Yeah! for a later date. And coffee happened, and this tided me through other people ordering Jimmy Johns... can't eat that at all because allergies.

Anyway, all that led into puzzlehunt! It was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy themed! I only sort of screwed up my lines in the opening meeting! The puzzle I put the most time into went well! The puzzle I put distinctly less time into went pretty okay but apparently horrified some people! It was better than the alternative though. And I only had to sleep all Sunday to get the icky stress feelings to go away. I love and hate staffing puzzlehunt for that reason. On the one hand it's so cool to see what goes on behind the scenes, on the other hand everyone is super stressed out and it just makes me feel awful.

As usual, I got a new idea for a puzzle the week before, so lets see if we can actually finish this one in time for next semester's hunt.

In conclusion:

Date: 10/12/2013

Coffee shop: Bagel Factory

What I had: Coffee + cupcake + baggel

Miles: 3.1

Party: shank, Margaret