i suspect things on this 'blog have changed ... the original intent was to have reviews of the places we ate for lunch, but the king, for king reasons, quit coming to cupertino regularly ... and then he sort-of lost his mind ... and then i started frequenting bobbi's on tuesdays (which was feddy's apple day) ... and then i moved to las vegas.
but that doesn't mean that i don't see him and it doesn't we don't have lunch occasionally.
eating at bobbi's wouldn't be my first, or even second, choice for lunch ... however i'm treated very well by the staff here and there's a bunch of my old apple pals that frequent here in random order and tuesdays are split pea soup day ... the smart and the superstitious pay attention when the planets align, and that means i'm eating at bobbi's today.
but it does mean that maybe maybe reviews have gone away on here? i'm not sure.
if king feddy is the french fries on the human societal lunch plate (and he almost certainly is), then here's the catch-up on what's happened. not all of this was covered in today's lunch, but for those three of you who stalk either of us through here, this is the news worth covering.
- he ran the dipsea last year, but had a leg injury, keeping him from his blessed t-shirt ... for another year.
- he called me a "loser," on stage, in front of 2000 people. scarring me for life, he's added apathy to injury by nearly immediately forgetting this event. (he did, however, explain himself by saying that i should tell people how to drive.)
- with or without steve jobs, apple stock price is WAY up ... and this after it remaining absolutely flat over 20 years (seven of which when i worked there -- thanks very much). this makes everyone at apple happy, including the king. they don't openly express this feeling, or talk about it, but it's there.
- there are subjects i'm not allowed to talk about on here. i'm not even allowed to mention what or who these subjects are. this isn't the only place i'm being voluntarily restricted in what i can say.
feddy did me a big service today. car-less, he picked me up at kon's krashpad and we went through a robo carwash before dropping me a bobbi's. it was during this ride that i learned about how great a driver he is. i also got to see a woman cut him off at a gas pump, causing his blood pressure to rise a solid ten points.
feddy dropped me at bobbi's for a later rendezvous. i was greeted like an old friend by the staff and learned about the finer points of horse respiratory habits while waiting for the typical lunch crew to shuffle in.
in fairly short order grumpy and thumpy wandered in, along with their two-man retinue. everyone's doing well. grumpy, in particular, looked great; claiming that his new stockton delta house and fishing were to blame.
feddy showed up late after his oh-so-grueling meeting (he actually has to go to one a week, believe it or not). in good spirits, we talked bicycles, races, soccer, children and female hormones.
feddy had a tuna melt and fries. i had a #3 breakfast, with a grapefruit sub for hash browns.
(as i had thought would happen) the worst thing about being in vegas is removal from my friends. what surprises me is the second worse thing of not knowing what's going on deep in the belly of the valley ... surprising because i haven't worked in the inner guts of it since danger, and never thought it mattered that much.
i would've had the instigator along (i think he's back from HI), but the timing of today was completely uncertain. my apologies to him.
great to see the king, nice to be back in 95014.
and just because you see this posting today doesn't mean things are gonna start up in earnest again.
(i read through the old postings and saw that i had switched over to writing monday reviews when the king was no longer with me for lunch ... hmm ... i could do that again, but it sort of brushes against a bigger idea i have.)
