Before I wrote about this past week & weekend, I figured I should catch up from last weekend. On Friday, we had our annual EY golf day at the Thanksgiving Point golf course. The last time I had been golfing was at the Palo Alto golf day at least 3 years ago, so I had pretty low expectations. Fortunately, we played best ball. Although I definitely wouldn't say I played well, I at least reached my goal by having a few of my shots be the "best ball" that we all played from.
That night, Nate had invited several co-workers and their spouses over for dinner. We made imitation Cafe Rio - including the chicken, rice, black beans, and cilantro-lime ranch dressing. Right before we ate, as I was looking at the rice that appeared to be stiky/mushy and the dressing that appeared to be too thick, I realized it probably wasn't the smartest idea to try something I had never made before with ingredients I don't normally cook with (cilantro, cumin, lime) when I had several guests over. It turned out to be pretty good though - everyone said they liked it, and I enjoyed eating the massive amounts of leftovers (also due to not having made it before, I wasn't sure how much the recipes would make) throughout the week. It was a fun night though, and it was nice to get to know some of them better.
Most of Saturday morning was spent in search of a car to replace "Roxanne", Nate's car that's on its last leg. We saw one in the classifieds that morning that had been listed about an hour earlier, called the guy and said we would come see it, and drove up to Bountiful, only to get there and find out someone showed up before us and bought it - they were in the process of writing up the paperwork. Unfortunately, this (at least the selling very quickly part) seems to happen frequently with the kind of car we're looking for. We decided to try and find a car that runs on compressed natural gas, which currently sells for somewhere around $0.64-$0.68 / gas gallon equivalent in Utah. To make a long story short, we've run the numbers and decided that if we can get a decent one and use it for Nate's commuter car to work (and anytime we go somewhere together), we'll make up the purchase price premium in gas savings fairly quickly. Anyway - the search continues. We spent the rest of the morning up there - stopped by to say hi to Nate's friend who lives just up the street from where this car was, stopped by Nate's parents' house to say hi (and arrived just in time for lunch - it seems like whenever we stop by the first thing she does is offer us food - she's great!), and went to one more dealership that sells CNG cars.
That night was round 2 of golf - I talked to my brother Jake during the day and he invited Nate to play golf that night, and since they would have a threesome and I didn't have anything to do, I invited myself along :) It was a great night - it had been a hot day and was still pretty warm, so it felt good to be outside. I did do better than the day before - with a little coaching I improved enough that most of the time I could actually make contact with the ball on the first try - which, embarrassingly enough, didn't always happen the day before. We'll see if I get to practice again anytime soon.
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