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I tease about the weather in SoCal but I actually find San Diego to be quite nice.

At midday in August.

My wife had another diatribe about how she doesn't like SD.  She claimed there "isn't anything there of interest".  

Nothing of interest? 

Did you not take her to any breweries???

golf and breweries and dining options - I enjoy San Diego 

Nothing of interest?

Did you not take her to any breweries???

I did not, we had very limited time there not already taken for her part of the visit, the graduation and party soaked up a full day.  Our first night after we arrived the family went to some very very "commercial" and mundane "Mexican" restaurant in a mall, it was so forgettable I forgot about it until now.  Then we had lunch with part of the family the next day, then the graduation affair.  I had zero control over events (and didn't want any).  Then we left for PS where I did have control.  I found one "Mexican" place there for lunch, every diner was "Mexican", I thought it could be good, but it too was mediocre.

A few years back I did find a good Mexican place in Carlsbad, but we weren't staying up north this time.

Our local "Mexican" places are far better and cheaper.

My wife is not a big fan of beer, she likes 420 and even PBR at times, but drinks it rarely.  I bought some Corona in PS because she likes it.

I realize when we travel I generally am "in charge", able to do what I want, my wife of course makes requests and I try and fit them in, it's usually not hard.  When going to a graduation out there, for two days someone else is "calling the shots", where we eat, how we spend time, and it's just not what I prefer, so I get in kind of a bad mood as a result.  The previous graduation was much worse, we were there four days following around with little "personal time".  This time was two days before we went to PS.

I had this notion that 90% of Mexican places in SoCal would be really good, but that isn't the case at all.

My wife is TOO trusting of me, but if I err, which happens, she's not critical, we talk it over and try to avoid the same thing again.  It works.

I have a somewhat similar situation coming up end of August, a very good friend of hers is having his 90th birthday, and hosting some "party" at his condo overlooking the fireworks thing up there.  Fortunately, my step son has taken over many of the arrangements and he's very good at it, and it's a smaller group overall and I know most of them.  I dislike "parties" with 30+ people where I know maybe 10.

This very good friend of hers I personally find exceptionally annoying and wish to avoid, but with ~ten people around it won't be hard, I can smile and chuckle and seem agreeable to whatever.  Our other friends are coming over from France and it's good to see them, he was my wife's boss back when and President of the company, neat guy.  So, net, it should be OK.  

Oddly enough, I'm not a fan of fireworks displays.  I may make some comment about how they are "chemicals" and pollution as this "very good friend" is your typical hyperliberal without knowing much of anything about anything.  He is of Jewish decent and after Trump was elected in '16 told me he expected Trump to expel all the Jews from the US.  I asked him if that would include Trump's daughter?  

I probably won't mention chemicals though, but I might depending.

He's more of a "brainless liberal", in my opinion.  He visited here a while back and we walked by a Chick-Fil-A and he went into a tirade, completely unneeded, I hadn't said anything, we didn't dine there, just walked by.  He's the kind who wants everyone to know his opinions and he doesn't know much of anything about anything. He goes off on topics often, and nobody around cares.

Anyway, we rarely see him.