Saturday, October 15, 2005
Slept in. Patrick and I had brunch at Tangerine. Service was really slow but the meal was delicious. I had the farmer's omelette and coffee. Patrick had the thai chicken omelette and coffee and orange juice. We shopped in the Castro for clothes. Patrick bought jeans at Citizen. Patrick got gelato at the new ice cream shop that replaced Ben and Jerry's. We ran into Drew and a friend of his visiting from DC. We visited Patrick's mom in the late afternoon. We got groceries at Safevay. Watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on DVD with Patrick. We both enjoyed it. Hilarious at times, definitely amusing. I spent some time working on our computer that's been having trouble lately. Fortunately, I was able to start the computer successfully and back up data that Patrick was worried about—some music he had composed. The hard drive had been making these weird noises and Windows was responding unusually slowly to a lot of tasks. I thought at first the hard drive had crashed, but a Maxtor disk utility said the drive was okay. I'm still worried about it because although things now seem okay the funny noises are still happening, so I need to rethink how we're backing it up and then consider the possibility of simply replacing the drive for the peace of mind. But at least I'll be able to begin putting the entire rack back together.