Thursday, December 30, 2004

Breakfast: vegetable scramble with brown rice toast. Snack: rice krispies for Patrick, an orange for me. Patrick and I went to Kabuki Springs and Spa communal baths for a few hours of relaxation. Dinner at home with Patrick: Brazilian seafood stew. Today we begin using a compost bin in the kitchen. We had simply never done this before because we feared stinky smells, but I realized it's easy enough to just take out whatever is stinky and put it in the compost collection bin provided by the city of San Francisco. I first got the idea to try this out from my sister. She probably doesn't know I observed them using the same practices in their kitchen. Within hours Patrick and I had filled a small bag of compostables, and I realized how silly we had been to not do this earlier. This has an extra benefit in that it saves space in our regular garbage can, which is normally very full. This year we got Christmas and holiday cards from the following: Bill M; Tony Q; Sam; Mitchell W; mikeob and Brian R; Aunt Maryann; Mary Anne Koda-Kimble; Glenn and Bill; Dr Sr Theresa M. DuRapau, RSM; Dianne M; Chris and Nate; Brian and Kelly; Bo the money man; JWG; Abbo P; and the Honma, Garcia, Dornblaser, and Vu-Williams families.