"Ride the Lightning" (full album) - Metallica

Friday, February 27, 2015

Seafood Friday #2 - Crisp Fish 'n Chips

TC told us about this new fish and chips shop that replaced the old taco shop on the corner of this strip mall at the corner of Saturn Blvd and Coronado Ave in Nestor (which is NOT Imperial Beach), which is part of an unincorporated part of San Diego (a sliver that shares the same 92154 zip code as Otay Mesa)...

According to yelp, this place opened "2 months ago" but when we spoke to the girl at the counter, she said they'd been open since October...

This photo was taken before we left. When we arrived earlier, there were a few families eating in and other individuals waiting for their orders to be filled...

Pre-dinner dinner @ K-Pasta

It was supposed to rain tonight and boy did these clouds look ominous...

as we drove from the 905 to the 5....

to have dinner at K-Pasta, one of our old faves which we hadn't revisited in a couple of years...

Hot Java coffee kiosk

Recently, I was down south at Kaiser for an appointment.

With some time to kill and the desire to have some coffee, I saw this small cofee kiosk near the Radiology department...

Thursday, February 26, 2015

La Marque

After our filling breakfast with awesome views at Tobey's 19th Hole, we headed to the southern part of Hillcrest to a new coffee shop.

This being Hillcrest, we had to park off of a side street since parking pretty much sucks here, even though it is far away from the main action of University and 5th.  This new coffee place is right on 5th with Brooks St being the cross street

La Marque is right on th with Brooks St being the cross street. If you go farther up on 5th, you will see the ridiculously long lines at the overrated Hash House. La Marque is before that...

Anyhow, while walking over to 5th, we were amused by this hairy rodent...

Tobey's 19th Hole and no, this is not about a bodily deformity...

Last weekend was another one of our morning dates. We'd already been to the East Village for several weeks...

I thought it would be cool to check out an older and not so shiny and new place...

located at the Balboa Park Golf Course...

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Armenian meatballs and flatbread...

A few Fridays ago, I met up with some friends for a cocktail party...

hosted by one of the gal at the gym...

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Return to Sahara and sweets from Pistachios

Earlier today I met up with MFH in her part of town...

We watched a movie. Yes, THAT one. I'm debating within myself whether to post my verbal diahrrhea on it. Or not.  For the time being. Not.  Suffice it to say, we enjoyed the movie especially the unintentionally hilarious moments. Lunch was enjoyed afterwards across the street from the theater...

Monday, February 23, 2015

Moscow Deli

In this strip mall with random businesses was our lunch destination...

No, not Mama Hong's, but the deli of Russian persuasion...

Balboa Village, Newport Beach

I'm in a "posting old posts before I forget" mood. So, this is the second to the last post of our President's weekend trip...from LAST YEAR.    Wut!

(pictured above is the gold dome of the Ali Baba Motel, right off the 55 freeway in Costa Mesa; home of the 1 and 1/2 stars on yelp)

The previous night we enjoyed a Cambodian feast at Siem Reap in Long Beach and would be heading home, but before doing so, passed by the beach side town of Newport Beach...

Sunday, February 22, 2015

It still works! The return of our record player...

When I got home yesterday, I was greeted by the sight of this relic...

But oh, what a welcome relic it was...

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Nomad Donuts 3x

It was nice having TC with us this morning. After finding a few items (a pair of jeans which she converted to shorts plus early 2000 pop-punk bands cd's for her)...

I noticed that Nomad finally got some signage...