An article in the Sacramento Bee last week highlighted a couple of locally-owned sandwich shops:
I haven’t been to either place yet, but I wanted to get the information up here so I’ll remember to check them out.
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06
Sep
Local sandwich shops
My buddy, Andy, has been urging me for months to try the food at this Lebanese place he likes. But I’ve been coming home for lunch most days, and I wasn’t going to take my family there for dinner without Continue reading ‘Maalouf’s Taste of Lebanon’
28
Aug
Nutella
We went looking for a source for Nutella here in Sacramento last week. Neither Barb nor I had seen it in “regular” grocery stores, so we checked all the specialty (read “expensive”) stores: Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, etc. Barb finally found it at Corti Bros., but of course it was a bit pricey–about $4 for a 13 oz jar.
I did a web search for “nutella sacramento” and stumbled across a post on BeckyJSacto’s blog. (She’s got a lot of good suggestions in that article as well as others on her blog–check her out!) She told us to check the peanut butter section at Raley’s: lo and behold, there it was, and about $.30 cheaper than Corti’s.
But I found the ultimate deal last night. CostCo is selling a 2-pack of monster jars (750 g, just over twice the size of the regular jars) for about $8. That works out to less than $2 per (13 oz.) jar. w00t!
25
May
Tokyo Fro’s sushi bar
Barb introduced me to Tokyo Fro’s sushi bar several months ago. It was pretty good, but I just haven’t had a chance to go back there. A few days ago Andy suggested sushi for lunch, and Tokyo Fro’s is conveniently close to Sac State, so off we went.
We arrived about 10 minutes before noon. The place was busy, but not packed. The service was pretty slow, which the waitress said was due to our arrival during the middle of the lunch rush. (The place opens at 11:30, so you’d think they’d be expecting people to drop in for lunch, right?) We ordered cucumber salads, which were excellent but took inordinately long to get to the table. We also ordered three sushi rolls:
- “Godzilla”, outstanding!
- “Coach T”, pretty tasty, nice complement to the Godzilla roll.
- “S.O.S.”, which I remembered was very good when my wife and I ate here. Unfortunately, we were served the “G-spot” roll, which was disappointing. (We didn’t find out it was the wrong roll until it was almost gone.)
After visting Tokyo Fro’s with my wife I was pretty happy with them, but if this had been my first experience I wouldn’t come back. I’ll give them one more chance to see if they had an “off” day.
Boulevard Coffee is yet another one of the businesses I frequent that doesn’t have a web page. Their coffee is always freshly roasted, and they have an excellent selection. My personal favorites are Boulevard Blend, a good crowd-pleasing medium blend, and Celebes, a dark-roast that may be too intense for some folks. They also have quite a selection of teas and there are always some very tempting desserts on display, but personally I just go for the coffee.
The shop interior is done in a very nice mission/arts & crafts style. Between the coffee, the beautiful interior, and the friendly staff, it’s a wonder I ever leave the building!
7901 Fair Oaks Blvd
Carmichael, CA 95608
916-944-0266
24
Jan
The End of Suburbia
One of our recent Netflix rentals was The End of Suburbia. I’ve been reading quite a bit on urban planning lately, especially New Urbanism, and somewhere along my journey I found a pointer to this movie. I’ll hopefully write about New Urbanism later, but for this post I want to focus on the movie and my family’s reaction to it.
20
Jan
Racism in Arden Park
Racism is still with us. My wife opened the curtains this morning and got to see this:
I’m so mad about this, I can’t even write anything more about this right now.
13
Dec
Attika
I finally got a chance to play Attika at the Sacramento Boardgames Meetup last night. This game was already on my Christmas list because it seemed like “my kind of game”. Now that I’ve actually played it, I think it’s something my whole family would enjoy. Many thanks to Kevin for bringing Attika to our game night!
Speaking of which… Our group, the Sacramento Boardgames Meetup, gets together every Tuesday night at Crepeville at 18th & L in downtown Sacramento. Our event is scheduled to start at 6:00 pm, but lots of folks arrive earlier (or later). I usually leave at about 9:00 pm, and I’m one of the early departures. I have no idea how late the die-hard gamers stay. We have a great group of gamers, so if you like boardgames come on out and join us some Tuesday evening!
20
Oct
New fence
A few weeks ago, we had a bit of a wind storm here in Sacramento. Afterwards we discovered that nearly all the posts of our back fence had failed.
I was hoping to avoid replacing the fence until after we ran new water and sewer pipes for our remodeling project. In fact, I wouldn’t have worried about the fence at all right now were it not for the fact that one of my neighbors (the one without a fence, of course) has a dog. Oh well…
I called around and got several verbal quotes yesterday. I needed about 75 linear feet of fencing installed, and most places were quoting me $1,000 to $1,500 for 4-foot high chain link fencing, not including removal of the old fence. One of the places I called, All Fence Design aka All Steel Fence Design, was just finishing a job and offered to drop by my house to do a written quote, since it was right on their way. They quoted me $1,150 — not the cheapest, but far from the most expensive. They were using the same high-grade materials that the expensive places were quoting me, and they were willing to haul away the old fence! To top it all off, they’d had a job fall through so they were available the very next day. It sounded good to me, so I gave them a deposit on the spot, with work scheduled to begin at 7:00 am the next morning.
They arrived about ten minutes early this morning and got right to work. After making sure they had everything they needed, I went off to my own job. I came home a bit early and they were just finishing up.
Casey (between the open gate and the telephone pole above, with his back to the camera) and his crew did a great job. They got the fence installed in one day, including hauling away the old fence. Galvanized chainlink fencing isn’t a particularly aesthetic material, but these guys made it look great in spite of that. It was good workmanship, quality materials, and a fair price — you can’t ask for better than that! If you need fence work done in the Sacramento area, I strongly recommend that you get a quote from All Fence Design.
25
Aug
Judges Cup 2006
Caitlin began her level 5 gymnastic season last Sunday at the 2006 Judges Cup held at Sac State. This was her first meet as a member of Pozsar’s Gymnastics team.
We were up against some stiff competition in our session: Airborne and San Mateo Gymnastics always do very well. I was unfamiliar with Central Coast Gymnastics, the final squad in our session, and they had only one athlete in Caitlin’s age group so I didn’t get to see much of them.
Trudi, Pozsar’s head coach, was a bit worried that our girls would lose points for wearing a sleeveless leotard to a meet, but a new athlete joined our team a few weeks ago and she hasn’t received the team’s competition leotard yet. We didn’t want to exclude our newest team member, so everybody wore their tiger leo’s and we took the deduction for our non-standard uniforms.
Caitlin was still feeling a bit of jetlag after her return from Sweden last week. (I’ll write about the Sweden trip later.) She didn’t rank very well in her session, even though her scores were actually pretty good:
| Event | Score |
|---|---|
| Vault | 7.700 |
| Bars | 8.100 |
| Beam | 8.225 |
| Floor | 8.500 |
| All around | 32.525 |
I believe a score of 32.000 is enough to qualify for Zone finals, so I’d say 32.525 isn’t bad at all!
Caitlin and her teammates, getting some last-minute instruction from Trudi. Left to right: Cassie, Alyssa, Caitlin, and coach Trudi.
I think all the girls were a little disappointed with their rankings, but they were up against some really good teams. It’s a bit disheartening to start the season this way, but they seem to be bouncing back and working very hard in practice this last week. I’m looking forward to watching Caitlin and all the rest of Pozsar’s gymnasts throughout the season. We have some great meets to look forward to, but I’ll have to write about the upcoming schedule in a follow-on post. For now, I’ll close with a group picture of the whole team:
Left to right, front row first: Tori, Carly, Megan; Alyssa, Caitlin, Cassie, Marci; coaches Nicole and Trudi.
