We ventured into Berkley to have brunch with the always lovely and delightful Jon-anne and her beaux Matt. They recently moved to California from here, I miss her terribly. Walked around the neighborhood, stayed and chatted in her very cute bungalow house, walked to the brunch place where the accordion player serenaded us with ABBA tunes and other unexpected songs. Lazed around her apartment and chatted some more before we parted ways. The evening involved lots of people, mostly people we didn�t know, pockets of folks whom we very rarely get to see in person. It was a house warming for Martin and Gun, our most fabulous hosts! I pitched in, made an enormous batch of my Asian pasta salad, some tried and true sangria (light and citrus flavored, c/o Cook�s Illustrated) and I made a homemade cream cheese icing for the dark chocolate cake. I played that Dance, Dance Revolution game for the first time. They had the main living room set up with a few televisions and two game pads. As a dancer I thought I would have been better at it, the eye to foot coordination was tricky, but fun. There was a girl there who used that game as her workout, an hour every day, her foot work was crazy! It was fun. I would be inclined to use a game like that as a workout too.