California Dreaming...

i just put out a teaser on facebook.  drat that site.  tried for two days from Droid... unable.

anyway here i am in southern california with a couple of hours on my hands, still kind of living on Eastern time.. that makes no sense but there you are.

i am here as part of a technical review panel which thought my flutter expertise might be of value.  so i've spent the last couple of days discussing this and that, looking at viewgraphs.  One of the very nice thing that happened was that there were several other panel members from my checkered past.  YF-23, F-18 veterans i have not seen for a while.  it was a treat.

Anyway since i'm now employed by a "Contractor" i decided to NOT rent a car since some of the other members stayed at the same hotel, and i could bum a ride from them to the meetins and back.  Down side is that upon return to the hotel after a long day, the "group eat" syndrome kicked in as i expected, so seeking out that nice little spot in Redondo was out.  Last night we ate at the mega chain

i have to admit they do it right, the staff was friendly and seated our table of 7 in a spacious booth.
for those that have dined at one, you know the menu is a spiral bound book with so many choices it is kind of bewildering.  Specials, Pasta's; sea food, salads on and on.  one of the things that caught my eye was the "nutritional guide".  a multi page affair listing all the numbers for every one of those choices on the ment

some of the drinks at our table i will not comment on.  I will divulge that this one was ordered by a male.

i ordered an item from the "combo" section, an herb crusted salmon and shrimp scampi.  described as:

Enjoy our fresh salmon that comes with a delicious lemon sauce and asparagus. Also served with Shrimp Scampi that’s sautéed with whole cloves of garlic, white wine, fresh basil and tomato - served with mashed potatoes.

 

well this is what hit the table

 

 

 

I thought that the amount of mashed potatoes dwarfed the other items.  Heavy and dense the weren't very good.  The shrimp and salmon were not bad, but asparagus looked like feelers..

 

we eschewed the name sake (rhymes with....)

 

 

 

okay, fatigue kicking in and a long day of travel tomorrow.  I have a story on the trip out which i will embellish with the story of the trip back tomorrow..

 

and yes, i was
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