{"id":5921,"date":"2023-12-18T11:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:36:30","slug":"parties-poes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2023\/12\/18\/parties-poes\/","title":{"rendered":"Parties & Poes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>With holiday season around the corner, we took advantage of my parents’ visit to join in on the parties and celebrations. My lab organized a hot pot potluck complete with retina-decorated macarons, followed by a Westley-led origami session. We managed to finish the copious leftovers before Thanksgiving dinner, which we kept simple to prepare for my family reunion on Black Friday. After months of coordination, I managed to gather aunts, uncles, and cousins from SF, Portland, and San Jose for a day of dim sum<\/a>, family photos, Super Smash Bros<\/a>, and seafood banquet<\/a>. The second wave of leftovers fed us for another week, leaving little opportunity to cook or to go out to celebrate my dad’s 80th. I did manage to get a cake<\/a> with numeric candles that Westley suggested keeping for his 08th birthday. We continued gorging ourselves at the Alta<\/a> holiday party at Mulvaney’s B&L<\/a> – with a short presentation by the owner<\/a> himself, dim sum<\/a> with Melody’s OR staff, and the Eye Center holiday party<\/a>, which felt less crowded and less festive than previous years. Melody and I also tried out the omakase menu at Chef Frank<\/a>, which was less impressive in presentation, quality, and price than the one at Okesutora<\/a>. At home, we spent more time exploring the depths of Hyrule<\/a> and collecting poes. I checked out the Fall of the House of Usher<\/a> and season 1 of Last of Us<\/a>. Mike Flanagan’s new horror miniseries on Netflix<\/a> smartly reflected the gothic works of Edgar Allan Poe, while HBO’s<\/a> video game adaptation captured the deep, emotional tone of the Naughty Dog classic<\/a>. Before my parents departed, we took them shopping in Roseville<\/a>, ordered our cloud sofa<\/a>, then visited Old Sac for the Theatre of Lights<\/a> show with the Dea’s. The Asian dinner option<\/a> was closed, leaving us settling for pizza<\/a> which was better than expected. With cold winter rains settling in, we look forward to staying inside with just the three of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With holiday season around the corner, we took advantage of my parents’ visit to join in on the parties and celebrations. My lab organized a hot pot potluck complete with retina-decorated macarons, followed by a Westley-led origami session. We managed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5937,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}