How was your long weekend? I spent July 4th at Skywalker Ranch this year courtesy of Erik. Like I’ve been telling other people, it was the July 4th-iest July 4th I’ve ever had, complete with egg toss (I got egg on Erik’s pants ), tug of war, and horse carriage rides. Unfortunately, no free lightsabers and stormtroopers, but I had fun.

Saturday morning we went to the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market for the first time, and it was cool, but ungodly expensive. I’m not sure I’ve ever spent so much and walked out with so little. Afterwards it was lunch at Taylor’s Refresher, then back home to meet up with a friend from high school and his fiance. I’ll be heading down to L.A. in a couple weeks for their wedding, which I’m super excited about.

Sunday morning Buddy came up to the city to do an 8-mile run in Golden Gate Park. It went pretty well, and it certainly reminded me how nice it is to be able to run through the park. I think we kept just over a 10 minute/mile pace, which I was pretty proud of, especially considering most of the latter half of the run I mapped out was uphill. Afterwards, we headed to a friend’s barbecue, where we participated in the only appropriate activity after a long run: gorging ourselves on various meats. Yum.

I also beat Professor Layton last week. I ended up finding 109/120 puzzles, which I thought was pretty good. I may go back sometime and try to find the remaining 11, just to see what happens, but more likely I’ll just look them up on the intertubes. I highly recommend the game to anyone who’s a puzzle fan; besides being a nice collection of puzzles, it has a cute story and art style.

Finally, crazy robot dancing: