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Brunch Fail

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"My Yolk" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/550 sec, ISO200
 “My Yolk” Cedar Park, 2017

こんばんは。How’s it going?

Today we had a nice brunch at a newly opened restaurant called “The Grove”. It’s a wine bar, but they have really yummy food as well. I ordered a dish named “Avocado Seduction” which is a really fancy avocado toast, while my wife ordered the “Crab Cake Benedict” which has egg, Hollandaise sauce, and spinach over crab cakes. We shared the food, but while transferring one of the crab cakes to my plate, my wife dropped it upside down. Luckily it landed on the plate, with yolk intact. But then when she tried to scoop up the yolk, it broke and made a mess. 😤

“It still tastes the same,” she said. Which is true, but I had to give her a hard time for doing that. 😤

"Fail" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/480 sec, ISO200
 “Fail” Cedar Park, 2017
"Crab Cake Benedict" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/680 sec, ISO200
 “Crab Cake Benedict” Cedar Park, 2017
"Avocado Seduction" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/110 sec, ISO200
 “Avocado Seduction” Cedar Park, 2017
"Brunch" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/220 sec, ISO200
 “Brunch” Cedar Park, 2017

I hope you had a nice Saturday!

またね～

Another Day

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"Grassy' Austin, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/50 sec, ISO3200
 “Grassy’ Austin, 2017

こんにちは。 How’s it going?

Well, today is my birthday, but for the longest time now, I’ve always preferred it to be low-key (which is odd since the name of this blog refers to my birthday). So, for dinner, which is one of the ways my family celebrates, I always choose something which is not special, expensive, nor fancy, but rather someplace new or that we haven’t been to in a while.

So I chose to go to Red Robin, which is a chain of hamburger restaurants.  🍔 A new location recently opened near our house, and I was looking forward to their “bottomless” steak fries. 🍟 It turns out that I only had one serving of these, despite the fact that you can order as many as you’d like. I guess as I get older, my eating limit is getting smaller. (Even though my waistline is growing!)

Besides the yummy dinner, I also enjoyed the gifts I received from my family, especially a large set of watercolors from my son. It was a really nice surprise since he bought it on his own for me, without my wife’s knowledge! I am so happy!

Today’s photo is of the carpet beneath my desk at work. This morning I dropped off my wife’s car at the mechanic to get some work done and then made the 10-minute walk to the office, which included a short detour through a small lawn. Sorry to the cleaning crew in the office!

Oh, and as an added little birthday treat, my favorite baseball team, the Los Angeles Dodgers,  finally won the National League Pennant for the first time since 1988! I’m very happy about that!

I hope you had a nice day!

またね～

Hanging Out

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"Boys' Party" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4.5, 1/100 sec, ISO2000
 “Boys’ Party” Cedar Park, 2017

こんばんは。How’s it going?

Here’s a photo of Koa and his buddies playing video games. He had a bunch of friends (6; all boys) over to hang out, eat pizza, and generally goof off. It was pretty fun, as far as I could tell from all the laughing. I think it’s pretty easy to take care of boys… or maybe it’s just because I have no idea what girls his age do for fun when they get together. ‍♂ It’s a huge mystery.

Anyways, video games, kicking the soccer ball around at the park, and pigging-out on pizza are easy things for me to understand. ⚽️

I hope you had a nice day!

またね～

Curry and a Sketch

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"Curry Nite" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/25 sec, ISO3200
 “Curry Nite” Cedar Park, 2017

Just like the title says!

For tonight’s sketch, I looked at a reference photo of Koshiba Fuka 小芝風花 for the hair, but the face I drew from scratch. I’m happy with how it turned out! 😄

"2017.10.12 Sketch" Cedar Park 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/100 sec, ISO400
 “2017.10.12 Sketch” Cedar Park 2017

To see all the sketches I’ve been working on, you can check out the Flickr album “My Sketching Journey”, or my Instagram account barron.sketches which I created just for posting sketches, watercolors, and stationery items.

I hope you had a great day!

またね～