{"id":529,"date":"2017-09-26T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:42:56","slug":"takoyaki-meetup-attempt-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/takoyaki-meetup-attempt-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Takoyaki meetup attempt fail!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, we tried to go to a Japanese-English language meetup (they serve takoyaki afterwards). Because it’s in the far-away city of Cupertino, we decided to make a full day of it and spend time at museums in the area. Unfortunately, it turned out that we had gotten the date wrong and the meetup wasn’t happening… ;_; Ummmm<\/p>\n

But the trip was totally worth it! We did lots of other exciting things.<\/p>\n

The first planned activity was the Cupertino Historical Society<\/a>. It’s a very small museum inside the Cupertino community center. Turns out that it’s free (although J left a donation), which is always nice.\u00a0Afterwards we wandered around the park behind the community center. We ate our box lunches while gazing out over the pond. I believe I had leftover pasta and split peas.<\/p>\n

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The pond is the center of bird life in the area (although there was another sign warning of specially trained geese-chasing dogs at work).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortuitously, Cupertino was having it’s community-wide garage sale last Saturday! I love garage sales!!<\/p>\n

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Wow, look at all those participants, each represented by a dot on the map. These handy maps were available in front of the community center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

J and I went to several together, and I went to several more alone (while J attempted to attend the language meetup).<\/p>\n

I got:<\/p>\n

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Old cookie tins for storing bread.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Muffin tin. It’s oddly not full-sized but not mini. Somewhere in the middle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cloisson\u00e9 brass whistle. I’m not quite sure what I was thinking, but it only cost 10\u00a2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

and the aforementioned waffle iron<\/a>. All these were from a single jackpot sale! A middle-aged man and his parents were cleaning out the parents’ home, so most of the items were mid-century (hence the waffle iron). There was also lots of old tupperware, many other cookie and fruitcake tins (reminds me of my family!), old electronics, etc.<\/p>\n

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A hammer for cracking open black walnuts. I could have gotten a smaller one, but it had a plastic handle. And the man running that particular sale said that the tools were his fathers, from WW II at youngest, so I felt obligated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Leather for various crafts. This house also had wool for felting and spinning. I would have bought it except that I already have so much…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I was going to garage sales, J got dinner and boba.<\/p>\n

We went to Sprouts and Whole Foods afterwards. Sprouts has some weird bulk items, like chocolate-covered honeycomb. Surely people don’t eat the honeycomb. Isn’t it made of beeswax??<\/p>\n

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Hippie toilet paper from Whole Foods. It’s more expensive than the bleached version, for some reason. It has higher post-consumer recycled content too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After-afterwards we got bread at Paris Baguette, a Korean bakery chain.<\/p>\n

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Korean-style cream cheese danish and mushroom-cheese focaccia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, we tried to go to a Japanese-English language meetup (they serve takoyaki afterwards). Because it’s in the far-away city of Cupertino, we decided to make a full day of it and spend time at museums in the area. Unfortunately, it turned out that we had gotten the date wrong and the meetup wasn’t … <\/p>\n

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