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June 6 Reno

On Saturday I woke to the continued cold and rainy Reno.  I found out later it was the longest string of days with rain since 1911.

Chad, Summer, and I went to Virginia City, an old mining town not too far out of town.  We went through windy hills to get there.  There is a main street with most of the activity; we walked up and down it, checking out a few stores.  Chad was bewildered by the water shooting off the roofs.

We took a walking tour of a mine that went out of the back of one of the bars along the main street.  It was interesting to see the technology and walk, stooped over, into the mine.

We didn’t linger too long because we had plans for the evening.  We had dinner with Chad’s dad and step-brother and step-sister through his father’s remarriage.  We ate at Lexie’s in the Sierra Casino.  It was quite good.  I had the seafood capellini which had shrimp, clams, and mussels.

From there we went to the Pioneer Center to see a traveling production of Mamma Mia. It was very enjoyable. I thought it was interesting that the three lead actresses had all played Rizo in Grease productions. Chad was distracted by one of the male leads, no knowing where he recognized him from. It ended up being Electricity commercials.

We headed straight home from the show. I had to get up in the morning and head for the train back to San Francisco, and the World Wide Developer’s Conference.

June 4 Reno

I stayed at my step-sister Katie’s new place. She moved out to Reno in January and purchased a model home from a builder that was looking for some cash flow. It came fully furnished, so everything is quit pristine.

I slept in, then Katie picked me up for lunch, and we met her brother Chad for lunch at Jake’s Place. I had a “wrap”, which was more of a large soft taco.

After lunch I dropped Katie off at her office and used her car to run some errands, particularly I got a few toiletries that I needed and some Dr Pepper.

Only a few hours later Katie came by in Chad’s car, then we picked him up at work and headed for the Nevada Museum of Art. They were having a “first Thursday” happy hour with a live band.

The place was quite crowded and the band was a little to loud for socializing. We made our way up the stairs to the exhibits, and checked out most of the second floor. Chad, who has lived in Reno most of his life, ran into quite a few people he knew.

After the happy hour ended, we walked a block in the light rain to Blue Moon Gourmet Pizza. We met up with Chad’s groomsman (8 years earlier) Scott and his wife Jane. We had some great pizza and Great Basin Ichthyosaurus, a great IPA.

After finnishing the pizza we decided to try out the place next door. The Biggest Little City Club had apparently recently repurposed another bar. It was small, dark, and had a few people of varying stripes in the bar. The first glass of champagne was free for the women. The were playing Breakfast at Tiffanies on a screen that doubled as a translucent window shade.

I introduced the iPhone game Blocked to the group, and some time was spent passing 2 iPhones and an iPod Touch around the table. I think Chad has become adicted. I also got Katie playing Flooded.

Afterward I headed home with Katie and got to bed a bit earlier than the night before.