Cooking at HomeChef. My group has an offsite: before the layoffs. We cook Chicken mango salad, vegetable enchiladas and chocolate chip bread pudding. It was great fun and great food.

Layoffs at work today. Again. Second time since I have been there. This time it affected my group in a big way and tomorrow I will start picking up the pieces. It has been a terrible day, an emotional day and a very difficult day.

biking at shoreline yesterday and these lumpy, bumpy moguls on the hill caught my eye.

Last night was the annual auction at Works - the gallery in San Jose that i go to a lot and that Sheila is president of the board. The auction is a lot of fun - 110 items of art went in a live auction - many for really cheap prices. There was also a silent auction of another 50-100 pieces. They raised a ton of money to help run the gallery and I came away with three pieces of art.

The photos are from throughout the evening. And if you stick around and click through all of them you can see the sculpture I bought.

I just let my little sister tattoo me. How is that for trust? This is my first. Yikes, I am a wimp. I complained the whole time.