Category Archives: Random stuff

Whole Foods Market website

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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…

Sunday in silicon valley

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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.

Austin’s Warehouse District on Fire!

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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!:
Bitter End 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.

Chinese food in the bay area

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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… 🙂