Saturday, December 18, 2004
Woke up around 7:30 AM. Worked on Lodestar. Ate a banana and a fruit smoothie for breakfast. Napped. Woke around 1:00 PM. Patrick had gone to meet with his language group to practice Mandarin then go grocery shopping with Sam. Sam left us with some Christmas presents, including one he said we could open today: a Starbucks CD of Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas. Fun! After waking from my nap, I bought Basis soap at Walgreen's then got an Oriental chicken salad at Safeway on Taraval. Got home, ate the salad. Worked on Lodestar. Dinner at home with Patrick: baked lemon pepper chicken; cream-based sweet potato, carrot, and fresh corn soup; bread. Finished first-round coding for Lodestar. Patrick sent everything out for review. A few reviews have come back—mostly no changes. This issue is done sooner than expected due to no drama works. Pretty much now we wait for reviews to come back, make any final edits, then the new issue goes live on Tuesday.