I can’t believe Whole Foods does not have a store locator at their website; one where you enter a zip code or address and they find you the closest ones. This is insane!! Their store locations link doesn’t really do much good when I have no idea where the heck Campbell or Fresno or Petaluma are, in their NoCal store listing. I should file this in the rants category, but I don’t have one, so Random Stuff is the closest…

Did a ton of shopping today, at Valley Fair, that place was like a real mall, not like the little malls in Austin… This is the real shit, like the Mall of America in Minnesota, with covered parking garage on the sides, and a road that surrounds the malls. I like it here that a lot of places have covered parking!! Even the sucky Target at Sunnyvale I went yesterday had it.

Bought quite a bit of clothes from Nordstrom, coz I donated most of my old stuff back in Austin (most were really not worth shipping or bringing over here)… Actually they didn’t have my size for most of the stuff I bought there, or they had to be tailored, so I won’t get them until next week. Good thing when they ship from a different Nordstrom location, they do it free of charge when the total of the shipment is over $100. I then raided the stores in the mall for more work clothes, and then at Macy’s, they had a lot of household items on sale, like I got an electric toothbrush (gave the one I had to Sherry) at almost 60% off!

Stopped by Milpita Square again for some food, this time I got there the right way and the road brought me straight to Ranch 99. Where I was yesterday turned out to be the southern tip of it. On my way back I stopped by T.J.Maxx, this one was actually called T.J.Maxx & Home, it’s bigger than normal.

After that I made my way to Costco, it was crazy there. Took me a good 15 minutes to park, and the place was also much bigger than the Austin version, and I thought everything were bigger in Texas, false! The highlight of the day was seeing the Vita-Mix guys there, I immediately went to pick one up. The guy was trying to explain what was in the box, I was like, dude, just GIVE ME ONE! He seemed surprised that he didn’t have to do anything to sell me a $360 blender, so I told him I tried to get a second one in Austin and failed. I didn’t know where Whole Foods was so I just picked up a ton of fruits from Costco for the Vita-Mix.

Haha, last time I went there with Kevin and Shirley, they got water dripping from the pipes, service was mediocre, and when I left only 10% tip the waitress bitched about it. BURN! (HAHA! j/k)… 😀

BREAKING NEWS! Warehouse District on Fire!:
Well, not quite. But enormous smoke clouds are billowing out of what Austinist thinks might be the Bitter End – firefighters have been here for the last 45 minutes valiantly attempting to extinguish the blaze.
Police have closed off a two-block radius from 4th and Colorado. We’d advise you to stay away from here at least for the next few hours – the air is toxic and traffic will likely be difficult to navigate.
Kitchen fire? We’re not sure, but we’ll let you know as soon as we find out.

I tried to go to Milpitas Square per recommendation from my friend Gordon, I went to that area but I’m not sure if that was it. Wherever I went was very close to a Cisco facility (I don’t think that was their headquarters).

Anyway, I found a little Asian mall and tried one of the HK-style restaurants, it was pretty good, much better than Chinese food in Austin… hehe… Took some pics with my Treo:

It was “baked pork with rice” (????) and some veggie… 🙂