Thursday, September 26, 2013
Breakfast at home: hemp granola with fresh, diced braeburn apple and unsweetened soy milk. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Followup with my problem report with Barracuda not working properly. Followup with Cindy about mvoing the pathway declaration form page. Resolved the dentistry supp app backend PDF problem; I had forgotten to restore the form fields because I had forgotten how the PDF was created. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Calendar management. Followup with same and similar name issues x 3. More followup with my problem report with Barracuda not working properly. Completed pcard paperwork. Pharm chem website edits for Millo. Followup with various staff about student photo issues. Lots of responding to emails received during vacation. Prepped the grads listserv for closure, gave Cindy a heads up. Sent John K another traceroute showing laggy behavior on pharm. Documented our vision statement in Google Docs. Lunch at JCC: vegetable barley, vegetable sandwich, small soft serve: about $10. Responded to a request from Daliah about blank prereq pages in bulk download. Chatted briefly with Eric about the STAR program and other administrata. Notified the comm team about forthcoming Acrobat XI Pro installations. Documented supp app grid view download process in the SOP IT wiki. Installed lots of updates on both my iMac and my MacBook Air. Rode Muni 1 and 24 to the Castro, walked to my eye doctor for my annual exam. Waited for Patrick at Peet's, drank a small masala chai latte. Dinner at Pesce (2223 Market) with Patrick. Our first time dining here. We looked at the menu and thought, hey that's pretty inexpensive for San Francisco. It wasn't until we were seated that we realized it's a small plates restaurant; basically Italian tapas. Patrick had a Peroni, I had an Il Burro (basil vodka, lime, rosemary, ginger ale: $10). Our plates: risotto di mare ($15), cavalo nero (kale caesar salad: $8), gamberoni (mint-lime shrimp with farro and vegetables: $12), tonno (herb-crusted tuna: $16). Dessert: tiramisu ($7). Decaf coffee for Patrick. About $100 total after tip. We liked all our dishes except the tonno which was overly spicy with black peppercorns. The risotto is lighter than you might think with a subtleness in the broth that lets the other ingredients shine. The tomato and salmon offered nice coloring against the white of the rice and white fish. This is a particularly great place for a single diner or for those with light appetites. Plate prices range from $2 to $28. The place was 90% full—a good sign for having been open about 6 to 8 weeks. Service was very good; the only problem was that our water glasses went dry at the end. I had arranged to meet Kitho at The Edge tonight, so Patrick took off for home, and I continued to The Edge where a drag show was going to start at 10:30 PM with a $5 donation. (I donated $5.) I waited about 40 minutes before finding out that Kitho had forgotten his ID at home. He returned home, but then their group no longer had the energy to go out. I switched to Badlands where I had a lemon drop special and danced a bit. Tried to ride Muni home, but the next train was in 20 minutes, so I got a slice of mushroom and tomato pizza at Marcello's, then caught the next train. Home. Fixed the problem with my iPhone by restoring from iTunes backup. Cleaned up old notes in Apple Notes. Wrote in my journal. Made more fixes for responsive journal pages. It's better than yesterday. Not perfect, but it will do for now. To bed late.