Saturday, February 11, 2006

Patrick and I got a lot done today. Because of my weird nap last night, I went to bed around 4:00 AM. Patrick woke up around 4:30 AM and practiced shao lin with Simmone. I got up around 8:30 AM, took a bath. He got back around 9:00 AM, took a shower then a nap. I relaced one of my shoes, labeled the shoelaces and shoe care box to make it easier to find next time, disposed of the Linksys packaging, decided a metal flower stand we have is too risky to keep on the marble tile floor and moved it to a vinyl tile floored room since it might easily scratch the marble, folded and stored laundry, hand-mended a pants pocket which had had a small hole, set up Patrick's laptop docking station in a temporary location (the dining table), left messages for some people. After Patrick woke up, we ate brunch at Bagdad Cafe, then ran errands: Cliff's, Walgreen's, Divisadero Car Wash, Safeway. Home. Patrick stored the groceries and took a nap. I prepared a newly purchased shirt for wearing. Gathered plastic bags for recycling. Cleaned the two standalone heaters our landlord provided for us. Removed a large sticker from one of the heaters using Goo Gone and a plastic spatula. Removed weeds from the back yard. Patrick woke up and started cooking dinner. I cut my hair, then took a quick shower, then a bath. Applied felt pads to bathroom cabinet doors to keep them quiet when closing. Dinner at home with Patrick: Shake and Bake chicken, "salsa" salad, bread and margarine. Watched The House of Flying Daggers on DVD with Patrick. Had a little trouble at the start since PowerDVD wouldn't play it at all, so it was Mac Mini to the rescue. It played in the Mac, but the sound was really screwed up—it would fade softer and louder throughout the film and we couldn't figure out why. Patrick said this had happened before when we had rented this film on DVD, but he couldn't remember exactly how we resolved it. We think it played okay if we switched computers, but that solution didn't seem to work for us tonight, so we just watched it anyway. For the first half or third of the film the sound was really too loud but then it would get really too soft. Finally I decided we'd just watch the film with the sound lower (so as to not disturb the neighbors too much). After the movie, Patrick went to bed. I prepared the spare bedroom closet for the installation of a shelf and curtain rod support. While cooking myself a late night meal (turkey burgers), I accidentally set off the fire alarm—oops, sorry! Turned off ssh to frankfarm.org coz I got tired of seeing attempted logins in my logfiles.