Saturday, January 27, 2007
Slept in. Cut my hair. Showered. Cleaned the bathroom. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Took photos of some candy-coated fennel seeds that Patrick found at an Indian grocery in the Mission. Installed our new clothes hamper. (The mule chest needed to be moved over a few inches to accommodate it, and that required taking all the drawers out.) Weight training: plank. Dropped off clothes for alteration. Snack: leftover mac and cheese, grapes. Installed Office Professional Plus 2007 at home. Amputagged a shirt. (This is my name for the process of cutting off a clothing tag and then sewing a small piece of cloth over the amputation to prevent the remainder of the tag from irritating the skin.) Snack: leftovers from last night. Shopping with Patrick: Sports Basement, REI, Injeanious, Body (chatted briefly with Adrian). Dinner at Catch (415-431-5000, 2362 Market Street) with Patrick. Iced teas. Patrick had fried kalamata and sicilian green olives with crumbled feta cheese ($3.50) and catch seafood stew with mussels, clams, shrimp, crab, scallops, and fish ($18). I had the salad special: two grilled scallops atop a butter lettuce salad with (mango vinaigrette?) and my entree was blackened salmon with black-eyed peas and orange mint marmalade ($18). The desserts did not interest us. Our server was Nicholas, and service was good. We talked mostly about buddhism and Steve Hagen's Buddhism: Plain & Simple, which Patrick recently finished reading and which I have just started to read. Watched Superman Returns on DVD with Patrick.