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Thursday after work I went with a few co-workers to The Rose and Crown in Palo Alto and Monster Sushi (formerly TGI’s sushi). I think TGIs sushi is a chain because there is a TGI’s in Berkeley, CA that may be called Monster also.

The Rose and Crown is your standard pub. It was quiet and has a small outdoor seating area (approximately 5 picnic tables). Beers are semi-expensive. A Guinness + a Franziskanner dunkel = $12.

Monster Sushi (formerly TGI’s sushi) is your standard sushi place run by Koreans. It is near the BevMo and 24 Hour Fitness. They have a value offering of $50 for a crapload of sushi enough to feed 3 people although it’s advertised as a 2-person meal. Meal for 3 people + 1 sake + extra salad + extra miso soup = $63 after tax.

Earlier in the day we went to the Mountain View 7 Eleven that was converted into a 7 Eleven Kwik-E-Mart as part of a Simpsons promotion. It was disappointing but interesting. On an unrelated note I got a 24oz “chelada” Bud Light can — that’s a Bud Light mixed with clamato juice. It was surprisingly refreshing, although I wouldn’t buy more than one can for a drinking session. The chelada basically tasted like a can of very light gazpacho.

At work we’ve been hooked on this card game we know as “pusoy dos”, the filipino/tagalog version of a poker-like card game that Wikipedia calls Big Two or Deuces or Thirteen. Pusoy dos is a lot like Othello — Minutes to learn; a lifetime to master!

The game is a mixture of poker with “war”-like elements. Each player gets 13 cards and you play poker-like hands. The object of the game is to get rid of your cards first. It’s a great 4-player card game that only takes maybe 5 minutes to play. If you and your friends are bored, this could be a good drinking game with lower stakes and more definitive opportunities for drinking than poker. For us, last place finish means you have to drink — although that’s just in theory, we don’t actually drink that much at work unless it’s a Friday afternoon. That’s when we break out the Jack.

Order of power (best to worst) — diamonds, hearts, spades, clubs

Learn to play [via wikipedia] or in detail