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Furniture and Food Poisoning
The weekend started off with the usual cocktails and dinner with John and Mark, with the addition of Bill (one of the Golds Gym crowd, and longtime friend of John and Mark's) and his date. Since it was too breezy and cool to eat outside at John and Mark's temporary home (their poolhouse), we decamped to a restaurant for dinner and witty repartee.
Saturday we went shopping for furniture. Paul had to leave his office furniture, which was custom/builtin, with his house, so he needs a new desk and shelves. We also need a new kitchen table since Mike took his. So it was off to the stores - first to the office supply warehouse store (poor quality), then to a local place with bookshelves (nice hardwood plywood stuff, but overkill for Paul's office), then down to Cupertino to the Scandinavian Design store, where we bought a beech veneer table just like we might have had as students 30 years ago and four nice chairs (already assembled) to go with it. After a break for lunch, it was off to Ikea in East Palo Alto, where we bought two desks, a shelf unit, and two bedside lamps. The Ikea furniture will be delivered today, and I'll probably end up putting it together. I've done an awful lot of that in recent years; could it be guys hook up with me just to get their furniture put together?
We went directly from the furniture store to the gym and had a good joint chest workout. My shoulder has been injured for weeks, which means I have to reduce weight and do more sets for some things like incline bench and front raises; so far it seems to be working, since I haven't lost much strength and the joint is almost back to its normal pain-free state.
Then we responded to Paul's need for an Indian food fix by trying out a new restaurant, Banjara Indian Cuisine in the Town and Country Center, downtown Sunnyvale. They were holding a birthday party in one of their rooms and had some great Bollywood-meets-Brittany-Spears music playing. The buffet was tasty (except for the cold pakora) and we both ate too much of the chili chicken. As we were leaving I realized I had eaten way too much, and discomfort increased on the way home. Fortunately my symptoms subsided and I felt almost normal by the time I went to bed, but Paul got very sick overnight and spent the next 24 hours being ill. Since the only thing he ate a lot of that I didn't was a yogurty concoction, that was probably the source of the bug. After he spent all Sunday sleeping, I gave him some of the codeine hoarded from European trips so he could rest last night, and this morning he seems largely recovered.
Saturday we went shopping for furniture. Paul had to leave his office furniture, which was custom/builtin, with his house, so he needs a new desk and shelves. We also need a new kitchen table since Mike took his. So it was off to the stores - first to the office supply warehouse store (poor quality), then to a local place with bookshelves (nice hardwood plywood stuff, but overkill for Paul's office), then down to Cupertino to the Scandinavian Design store, where we bought a beech veneer table just like we might have had as students 30 years ago and four nice chairs (already assembled) to go with it. After a break for lunch, it was off to Ikea in East Palo Alto, where we bought two desks, a shelf unit, and two bedside lamps. The Ikea furniture will be delivered today, and I'll probably end up putting it together. I've done an awful lot of that in recent years; could it be guys hook up with me just to get their furniture put together?
We went directly from the furniture store to the gym and had a good joint chest workout. My shoulder has been injured for weeks, which means I have to reduce weight and do more sets for some things like incline bench and front raises; so far it seems to be working, since I haven't lost much strength and the joint is almost back to its normal pain-free state.
Then we responded to Paul's need for an Indian food fix by trying out a new restaurant, Banjara Indian Cuisine in the Town and Country Center, downtown Sunnyvale. They were holding a birthday party in one of their rooms and had some great Bollywood-meets-Brittany-Spears music playing. The buffet was tasty (except for the cold pakora) and we both ate too much of the chili chicken. As we were leaving I realized I had eaten way too much, and discomfort increased on the way home. Fortunately my symptoms subsided and I felt almost normal by the time I went to bed, but Paul got very sick overnight and spent the next 24 hours being ill. Since the only thing he ate a lot of that I didn't was a yogurty concoction, that was probably the source of the bug. After he spent all Sunday sleeping, I gave him some of the codeine hoarded from European trips so he could rest last night, and this morning he seems largely recovered.
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Poor Paul. Sounds like he got a pretty nasty case of it.
But buffets are a natural habitat to the various critters that cause food poisoning. It could have been anything that sat too long either not hot enough or not cold enough. I'd call the restaurant with a list of what he had- don't attempt to single anything out- and how long before he first developed nausea. They'll deny it up and down, but at least they've been informed.
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But at least you all got some shopping done, which is always a good thing. :-)
I wasn't exactly feeling great yesterday myself and even skipped church as a result. Not sick per se, but just blah and a bit uncomfortable that's all.
Glad to know he seems to be on the mend.
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Paul keeps claiming he's the pretty one of the two of you:-)
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[rolls eyes] Yes, you're onto me. As soon as I get all my assemble-by-yourself furniture, you'll be redundant.
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