Soma recently joined Tempo Storm as our new Chief Creative Officer. He was in the Southern California area, so we met up with a group of Tempo Storm staff members and got dinner.

I was hoping to get some decent vlog footage from this, but this was a restaurant inside a hotel and the lighting was so bad that it didn’t really work out.

I haven’t really been posting much lately because I’ve been trying to recover from being out and about for over a month. I’ve historically been someone to sit peacefully at home doing an office-like job and not going out and about a lot, so being at consecutive events and conventions with constant human interaction seems to have been a lot more taxing than I thought it would be.

I like my meat cooked medium rare, but when I order it as medium rare, it usually doesn’t come out medium rare. Historically, most restaurants overcook the meat so it ends up closer to medium than medium rare.

Because of that, I’ve developed a strategy to request meat cooked rare instead of medium rare. Then, the meat usually ends up closer to medium rare. In the cases that I run into restaurants that actually cook the meat properly rare, then that’s fine as well, because I’m ok with rare meat also.

A while back, scarra got me dinner with one of my friends, and to return the favor, I took him out to dinner last night. The restaurant we went to was a bit different … I asked for my burger cooked rare, and I ended up getting a blue rare burger.

It was still pretty good.

And just like that, it’s all over.

It’s been a tough week, but I feel like I can finally say that TwitchCon was a success for Tempo Storm. There’s still another day left tomorrow for exhibitor move-out, but I won’t be participating in that because I need to be somewhere else for some other Tempo Storm related work.

I’m not a fan of big parties and I just feel overwhelmed and irritated when I go to them, so instead, I prefer to either go back to my lodging area after the convention hours, or at the very most, I am ok with going out in small groups. That’s what I did instead of attending the TwitchCon party at Dark Harbor – I went to get some dinner at Yard House near the convention center.

We ordered a ton of dishes as a table, and I was sitting at the corner of the table (like I usually do) so I wasn’t able to snap photos of everyone’s dishes, but here are the ones I got. The ahi tuna nachos were my appetizer, and the burger was my main dish.

The biggest part of the month is over, and now all I have left is a bit more traveling, another activity with Red Bull, BlizzCon Opening Week, and BlizzCon.

The end is getting ever so slightly closer.

The convention preparation scramble is still going on, but with the few off days between strings of events, I’m getting in some extra catch-up work and other activities. Today, I went to the Offline TV gaming house with a friend to meet up with scarra and get some dinner.

… Yes, that means more food photos.

Fun fact that I discovered today: scarra is a speed eater. He finished his entire dinner in about 4 minutes. lol

Today was the first day of our playoffs, and our Heroes of the Storm team swept the series 3-0 to advance into the final round. This is essentially a gauntlet, where the winner has to play through all higher-placed teams and defeat them all in series in order to qualify for the prize. This particular gauntlet is for BlizzCon qualification, and Tempo Storm is now one series away from going to the global championship.

Because our team won 3-0, the games ended a lot quicker than anticipated, so we got a chance to go out and grab some food during the day. The team really wanted ramen, so I went in assuming I would do my normal strategy of just ordering a dry dish, but the ramen house literally had zero dry items, so I decided today was the day I actually eat a hot-liquid dish.

It actually wasn’t really that terrible (and it’s not even like I actually dislike it in the first place, it’s just that I don’t prefer it), although I wish the portion size was a bit larger. I feel like liquid dishes put way too much actual liquid in the dish and not enough solid food, so I feel like I’m wasting money by paying for a ton of seasoned water instead of actual real food.