Saturday, October 2, 2004
Brunch: Rain Tree Cafe, a diner in the Inner Sunset with very good service. On the way we ran into Heather and said hello a few minutes. Patrick went to Tart to Tart to meet some students from his Chinese class for language exchange. I stopped in at BriKelJess's place but no one was home. Looked in at The Gap—as usual lots of things on sale but nothing in my size. On the street, I ran into Nina and Simma who were on their way to the Love Parade—some kind of dance party parade festival at Embarcadero—I hadn't heard about it. Waited for Patrick at Spike's, but he was late so I met him instead at Castro and Market. We shopped unsuccessfully for clothes in the Castro. Ran in to Jeff at Injeanious. Chatted with Adrian at Body. He tried to help me find clothes that fit me, but I decided we really needed Body Kids (which doesn't exist). Somewhere along the way in our Castro Street walk, we saw homemade signs advertising a "BIG ASS SALE." Picked up a movie at Superstar. Picked up a few pastries for breakfast at a new cafe on Castro Street called Le Bon Gateau. We chatted with Little Brian outside of Body while he waited for Adrian to get off from work. Took the L train home, ran into first-year student Doug on the train. Repaired a chair which somehow had gotten a broken leg so a chunk had chipped off—just a little glue. Melissa stopped by unexpectedly with a large bunch of beautiful dahlias to thank us for dinner and for helping with her computer. We met her mom and her housemate. Patrick chatted with Sam on the phone. Shower. Dinner: leftovers with basil-lemon-garlic chicken. Edited the Lodestar subscriber list to delete bounces from the most recent issue. Tried to install and configure Unison, gave up after 10 minutes because I didn't want to bother with installing ssh on Windows systems and I didn't want to run it insecurely. Finished backups.