Joining in on the lifestyle

So I just got back from supper with Antonio, one of my house mates who graduated from waterloo this summer. We had taken 789 together this summer and he is now working full time on the same team I will be working with. He had referred my resumé and long story short here I am. I arrived at the house late afternoon and connected to the net to find an email from him wondering when I would be in, I told him I had just arrived and he told me he'd show me around a little and we could go grab supper when he got home from work.

We ended up waking around downtown Palo Alto a little a went for supper at this small vegan restaurant. As we were finishing up eating I sat back and sipped on this black bean drink I wanted to try (think of a warm drink that tastes a little like chi-latté with black bean purée in it) and we were discussing the future of some tech companies in the area and speculating on the future of technology. I thought to myself wow, I'm actually in Silicon Valley. It was just one of those moments that seems so stereo-typically Californian.