urban coyote

I was surprisingly energetic for how relatively little I slept last night - I got up around 6:45 #inittowinit, and went ahead and showered, made some coffee, and ordered a breakfast burrito from the cafe downstairs. In true "San Francisco is living in the future" vibes, it was delivered to me by the hotel's robot, which looks like a trash can on top of a roomba and has an opening from which to retrieve your food. All in all it was a v. pleasant experience and I would use it again, even if it was apparently drunk and stuck in the hallway tonight when I got off the elevator.

I ate the insides of said burrito with a fork while participating in my first call of the day, and then I threw away the tortilla and walked to the office (with a stop for Philz coffee along the way). Then I slogged relentlessly all day, because I had a million meetings (you gotta pay the cost to be the boss). All in all the meetings were good, but I was starting to hit a wall by the end - mostly because our office was, for some reason, eighty degrees, which is about 10-15 degrees hotter than I was expecting to be in San Francisco in August.

Anyway, once I wrapped up meetings, the finance team and I (did I mention I'm now somehow running the finance team??) went out for a team dinner. We ended up going to the restaurant at Restoration Hardware - it's a bit of a bizarre thing that they have a restaurant, since they're a furniture store, but then Nordstrom also has a great line of cafes within their stores, so I suppose there is some precedent. Of course, Restoration Hardware's restaurant has palm trees growing inside and almost every surface is covered in marble, so that was a bit wild.

So the three of us had a very fun, leisurely dinner and were there over three hours, which I think counts as team bonding. And then I walked back to my hotel (past the remaining pedestrians pouring out of the Valkyries game), and now I'm going to go to bed early for SF and late for Iowa. Goodnight!