Weekend highlight include catching up with Christine over lamb appetizer late-night at the super-cool  Brazenhead…… antipasti overlooking Sonoma around noon the next day…..  Two gold stars in the V. Sattui wine trivia  contest…..  picking  a few of Prager’s  “loquats’, which I  insisted were called ‘nespoli’ and christine insisted on called 'peachy-cherries' ……..getting ‘big-timed’ at Frascati and once again being blown-away by their food……..a great workout at SportsClub LA….. seeing Muhammed Abdullaev’s comical expression when conceding defeat to Miguel Cotto midround (Bayside, not Greens)…..  seeing Tyson get retired by some nobody….. drinking Bruno’s  signature  side-cars while  hearing a very good reggae band play in the always cozy Bruno’s jazz room……. leaving concert after hearing song with chorus of “Republicans are Liars” and another which might as well be called “an ode to Che”  (When did Marxism become cool?)……chocolate covered figs after breakfast crepes on Union .....turning on my new laptop at my hovel and having it automatically connect to networks I didn’t know exist…eating bone marrow over braised Kobe beef at Mina, who comped me some awesome wine whose name contains too few hard vowels for me to ever remember....finding out, just now, that I was right about the nespoli, pictured here.