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July/August 2014

Life:

• Parents visit (Napa earthquake)
• Aquiris visit in Brazil (Ballistic reaches 100K+ DAU)
• Grand Prix Portland (40th/659)

Events:

• Engagement Party @ the Blums'
• First lunch w/ Rabbi Peretz

Movies Seen:

• X-Men: Day's of Future Past (decent)
• Philomena (okay)

Books Completed:

• The Score Takes Care of Itself
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The Circle

Books In Process:

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
• How Music Works

Restaurants of Note:

• Poggio
• Redd
• Millenium
• Bobo's
• AQ
• Outerlands

June/July 2014

Life:

• Brian & Morgan get engaged on 7/17 overlooking Nice
• Israel & France vacation 
• Jeremy's daughter Sofia was born
• Visited Seattle

Events:

• Batya & Be'eri's wedding
• Molly & Jason's wedding
• Batsheva dance company (Tel Aviv)
• Yann Tiersen
• Rufus Wainwright

Movies Seen:

• Love & Lemons (okay)
• Boyhood (good)
• Quality Balls (solid)
• Edge of Tomorrow (decent)
• Noah (terrible)
• Chef (okay)

Books Completed:

• The Dance of Dragons
• The Stranger

Books In Process:

• How Music Works
• The Circle
• Psychomagic

Restaurants of Note:

• Kokkari (37th birthday)
• Range
• Mirazur (Menton)
• Messa (Tel Aviv)
• La Fountaine (La Turbie)

May/June 2014

Life:

• Jeremy's Wedding
• Hazon Ride in Marin
• Mother's Day in Napa

Events:

• Ben Folds and the San Francisco Symphony
• Jen Schick's birthday @ Americano

Movies Seen:

• Godzilla (eh)

Books Completed:

• Signifying Rappers
• Animal Farm

Restaurants of Note:

• Woodberry Kitchen
• Ozumo

April/May, 2014

Life:

• New Orleans trip w/ Ginger
• Justin visits for a week (bike ride to Tiburon, hike @ Pt. Reyes)
• First Syrian Seder
• Visit to Disney @ Burbank
• Fitbit, month 1

Events:

• Jazzfest
• Day 1: Lyle Lovett, The String Cheese Incident, The Wailers, Marcia Ball, Greensky Bluegrass, Tizumba & Tambor Mineiro of Minas, Johnny Sansone, Stanton Moore
• Day 2: Christina Aguilera, Alabama Shakes, Chaka Khan
• Day 3: Bruce Springsteen, Foster the People, Trey Songz, Al Jarreau, Better than Ezra, the Revivalists, Johnny Winter
• Morgan performs on a panel @ Yom Hashoah
• Sarah's birthday in GGP
• WW2 Museum

Movies seen:

• Jodorowski's Dune (great)
• Teenage (eh)

Books completed:

• Lightning Rods
• How Fiction Works

Restaurants of note:

• State Bird Provisions (w/ Morgan, Justin & the Blums)
• Commonwealth (w/ Morgan, Justin)
• Restaurant R'evolution (w/ Ginger, NOLA)
• MiLa (w/ Ginger, NOLA)
• Coquette (w/ Ginger, NOLA)
• Verti Marte (w/ Ginger, NOLA)

March/April, 2014

Life:

• One year anniversary w/ Morgan
• Reduced days per week to three, which is fun in theory but not so much in practice
• Moved out of 1574 Dolores Street for good
• Started to play music again
• Weight at the highest point since 2006 (using fitbit app w/o wearable)

Events:

• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Bill Cosby
• Giants game
• Day of Learning
• Piper Kerman
• Dashiell Hammett

Movies seen:

• Mud
• Captain America: The Winter's Soldier
• The Budapest Hotel
• Short Term 12 (again)
• The Eagles Documentary

Books completed:

• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• The Wizard of Earthsea

Restaurants of note:

• Saison
• Pizza Hacker
• Farm Shop
• Sushi Ran
• Village Market
• Mandalay
• Wise Sons
• Local Mission Eatery (w/ Tronster & girl)

Up next:

• Further work adjustment
• Statebird Provisions w/ the Blums
• Passover dinners w/ the Blums
• Justin visits
• Jazzfest with Ginger
• Jeremy's wedding
• Israel/France trip
• Portland GP w/ Lan
• Many other weddings
• Costa Rica

February and March, 2014

Things done:

• Moved in w/ Morgan
• Launched Ballistic
• Downshifted to 3 days/week @ Rumble
• Napa Trip
• Fammy Awards Gala
• The Music Man (w/ Aaron Vanderbeek performing)
• Dashiell Hammett retrospective
• Alain de Botton
• Facebook Improv w/ Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer
• Bought my Rumble shares

Movies seen:

• The Lego Movie (Solid)
• Oscar Nominated Short Films -- Documentary (Good)
• Her (Ambitious)
• The World's End (Ok)

Books completed:

• Locke & Key Vol. 3
• Locke & Key Vol. 4
• Locke & Key Vol. 5
• Locke & Key Vol. 6
• Esopus Vol. 14
• Esopus Vol. 20

Restaurants of note:

• Mustards Grill

Skipped:

• David Kelley