July 2019
Summary: Honmas visit: Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties, Letterman Digital Arts, Ly's Vietnamese, Swensen's; Sensorio Paso Robles Field of Light by Bruce Munro and wine tasting with The Group With No Name; Up Your Alley Fair with Richard and Stephen
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Mon Jul 1, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: everything bagel with cream cheese, zaatar, and diced green onions, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Continued helping with OSACA server access problem. Spent the whole day on automated news html email work. Lunch: nuts and dried fruit, an energy bar. Errands: hardware store, grocery, drug store. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: lasagne using leftovers from braciole, bread and butter. Dessert: one small piece each of Heavenly Taste Toffee. Afterwards we watched movie trailers on a Roku channel called HD Movie Trailers by TA. Washed dishes.
Tue Jul 2, 2019
Breakfast at home: yogurt with diced apricot, diced brazil nut, peanut butter granola, fresh blueberries; one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights, stopping at the drug store and grocery store along the way for a few items. Automated news template work. Taxonomy work: followup with new image credits. Began a new Mailchimp campaign for Liana: Worminator talk and Mission Bay Tour. Listened to Everything Hertz podcast #87 which interviewed Mike Morrison about #betterposter. Followup on CGEH build. Edited and published a news story for Grant. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover lasagne, glass of red wine for me, water for Patrick. Patrick said today that the toffee I bought from Heavenly Taste Toffee was the first toffee he has liked.
Wed Jul 3, 2019
Breakfast at home: one green apple, side of yogurt with fresh blueberries and fiji ginger syrup. Met with Paula about moving the editorial style guide to the web. Completed and scheduled a Mailchimp campaign for Liana: Worminator talk and Mission Bay Tour. Resolved a problem for Angela with Betty D's profile missing from the faculty listing. CGEH build. Lunch: microwave popcorn, water. Afternoon snack: nuts, dried fruit, water. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie enchiladas (red bell pepper, cauliflower, zucchini), red wine, water. Dessert: one small piece each of Heavenly Taste toffee. Continued playing The Witness for iOS on my iPad Pro with Patrick.
Thu Jul 4, 2019
Fourth of July holiday. Pre-breakfast: a tiny bowl of yogurt with fresh blueberries, side of cherries. Troubleshot a problem with Patrick's MacBook Pro not recognizing his Bowers & Wilkins MM1 speakers; I think maybe an old Belkin USB hub has stopped functioning properly for data but it still works for charging. Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with green onions, hash brown with ketchup, bread and butter, bacon. Washed dishes. Patrick cleaned the tub then bathed. Resolved a problem on Patrick's computer with the notification badge for Apple Calendar appearing even when no notifications were present by logging out of iCloud and logging back in. Formatted and printed a few of Mark Bittman's doughnut recipes from The New York Times for Patrick because when he printed them the page appeared blank. At first I used browser inspection tools to show and hide the elements I wanted then printed to PDF, but we got a better result by copying all the text and pasting into Word then formatting for two columns so that the entire recipe could fit on one page as much as possible. Nap. Shower. Long nap. Quick shower. Snack: tortilla chips. Watched the June 26 Democratic debate on YouTube with Patrick and popcorn. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken and andouille jambalaya for Patrick, leftover polenta with braciole for me, Hint water. Dessert: one medium piece each of Heavenly Taste toffee. Watched fireworks shows from 2017 and 2018 on YouTube.
Fri Jul 5, 2019
Breakfast at El Cafe: breakfast croissant, which is two eggs and cheddar; hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Completed the CGEH site build and sent it to Jennifer for review/approval. Continued normalizing news story page titles according to recently decided rules. Cleaned browser bookmarks for work. Pcard paperwork (no transactions). Continued Siteimprove Academy course: Accessibility for Content Contributors and Designers. Susie said we could leave early for the weekend. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: beef in black bean sauce with spinach and baby corn on brown rice with shiitake mushrooms from a pouch, Hint water. Dessert: caramel toffee ice cream, chai latte ice cream, cacao nib cookie, and for me only, one Twizzler. Watched half of the June 27 Democratic debate on YouTube with Patrick as well as the season 2 recap and season 3 trailers for Stranger Things. Late snack: tortilla chips.
Sat Jul 6, 2019
Breakfast at home: Wise Sons everything bagel with cream cheese and Spice Ace Jordanian zaatar, 8 ounces of orange juice, water. Adhered padding to the insides of my silver vinyl shoes opposite where I received blisters or bruises on Sunday following FootFitter stretching during the week. Created a Google Sheet inventory of all our spices and salts then shared it with Patrick. Weeded and swept in the back yard for an hour or two. Shower. Pre-lunch: a nectarine. Mini nap. Lunch: leftover braciole with polenta, water. Nap. Rode UberX to Alamo Drafthouse New Mission with Patrick for Spider-Man: Far From Home in 3D. Popcorn to share; triple chocolate shake, water, and jerk chicken sandwich and fries for Patrick; water and brisket burger and fries for me. $53.40 before a $10 tip for food only. Rode UberX home. Computer updates for home computers.
Sun Jul 7, 2019
Breakfast at home: colby jack, egg, and serrano ham on toasted english muffin; 7 ounces of pulpful orange juice; over a pint of hot water. CMS updates for home websites: LLGH, Tina's website, Corinna's website, including setting up schedulers for daily cache clears and monthly server-side backups. Created a simple one-page site for Patrick to replace the default files configuration after setting up his domain. Instead of using HTML5 Boilerplate, I used htmlshell.com. Patrick wanted Goudy Old Style, so I added that with Adobe Typekit, which was pretty easy. Finished watching the June 27 Democratic debate on YouTube with Patrick followed by Stephen Colbert's monologues following each night and AOC's guest appearance. Completed building and deploying a favicon for Patrick's new website. Vacuumed. Relearned theming in Grav and—I think—successfully deployed a customized Learn2 theme using the inheritance method. Today Patrick baked a Boston cream pie, which I think I learned only today is called a pie but is really a cake—so confusing. We ate one slice each in the early afternoon, then again after dinner, which was tacos with fixins including ground chicken with taco seasoning. Afterwards we watched Stranger Things s3:e1 then a few more Colbert clips on YouTube.
Mon Jul 8, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: toasted everything bagel with cream cheese, and for me only, yogurt with diced plum. 8 ounces of orange juice for Patrick, one pint of hot water for me. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Followup with Kristine M from Siteimprove about the problem with en dashes and em dashes in the Spelling section. Followup with CGEH build and gave suggestions to Zev for his website in progress. Lunch: nuts and dried fruit, water. Responded to two people profile requests from Angela K. Began watching an SEO seminar from Siteimprove that I had missed. Completed Siteimprove Academy learning path Accessibility for Content Contributors and Designers. Dinner at home with Patrick: cow-bacon burgers with fixins, crinkle-cut fries and ketchup, water. For me only: red wine. Afterwards we watched Stranger Things s3:e2 and a few clips on YouTube. Rested. Washed dishes. Dessert: Patrick's Boston cream pie.
Tue Jul 9, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with green onions and ham, toast with butter, hot earl gray tea with milk, and for me, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights, stopping at the drug store, grocery, and hardware store along the way. Followup with Liana's Mailchimp campaign delivery from yesterday. Followup with Siteimprove on open tickets. Sent a non-urgent tagging request to Jill W for Siteimprove. Styling work: various small fixes. Worked with Grant and Eric to add support for the aside element. Wrote procedural documentation for images, image credits, and image captions. Completed the UCSF IT customer satisfaction survey. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: tacos redux, water. Dessert: Patrick's boston cream pie and for me only a glass of milk and creme de menthe mixed with a bit of water. Afterwards we watched clips on YouTube—mostly from Ellen's channel.
Wed Jul 10, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Breakfast at Cafe Bellini: egg, provolone, and avocado on croissant; water. Visited the OSACA, which has temporarily moved to S918 while S960 and the student lounge complete renovation. Chatted with Lucia (laptops, computers, and more) and Darlene (Disneyland). UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Continued normalizing news titles to be sentence case and removing most first names. Began investigating how to create custom themes in Qualtrics. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: celery and brown clamshell mushroom risotto, hot water. Errand: drug store. Dessert at home with Patrick: two macarons each: coffee and pistachio.
Thu Jul 11, 2019
Breakfast: one green apple, dried fruit, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Followup with Lucia on the file share problem—both she and I get a permission denied error when attempting to move a folder to its previous location. I followed up with Ryan P at IT via Slack. Read the dead tree summer 2019 edition of UCSF Magazine. It was very pretty to read, but maybe half of it I had previously read online. Followup with Jennifer C about the WIHS website which she wants to make unavailable. Lots of task followup in Asana. Siteimprove work: http to https updates on pharm. Walked and rode Muni home, stopping at Arizmendi along the way. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Watched Stranger Things s3:e3 on Netflix instant watch and a few clips on YouTube with Patrick.
Fri Jul 12, 2019
Breakfast at home: egg and provolone on toasted english muffin, water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Third attempt at requesting to be a brand admin for Qualtrics. Responded to an editing request from Ilona P. Spent most of the day reading Brad Frost's Atomic Design. HR import to Mailchimp. Siteimprove work: various tasks. Handled CGEH edits from Jennifer E, then sent the site to MSOs and Plancomm for review. More Siteimprove work. Rode UberX to the Presidio, meeting Rob, Matthew, Akemi, and Lani who were in San Francisco today for a tour of Letterman Digital Arts—a benefit of Jeremy's internship with LucasArts. I met them on Main Post Lawn near The Commissary. Rob, Matthew, and Akemi were throwing a frisbee and a ball. Lani was wandering nearby. We all briefly visited in the Futures Without Violence building an excellent exhibit called Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties. We picked up Jer at Letterman then tried to find parking then dinner, first having bad luck at Dim Sum Club which was closed for vacation, then Leopold's (a bit pricey). We returned to the car and drove to Ly's Vietnamese where we ate even though Rob had some trouble finding street parking nearby. Matt had beef satay pho (spicy). Akemi had garlic noodles with imperial rolls. Lani had crab paste noodle soup and hot tea. Rob had garlic noodles with (?). I had five spice chicken pho and hot tea. Waters all around. Kiana is starting 9th grade. Matt is starting his senior year and avoiding choosing colleges. He thinks he might major in psychology or environmental science. Afterwards we parked near Swensen's and stopped for ice cream before visiting the apartment that Jer and his housemate were renting for the summer. I met Rie, Brandon, and JT. (Heidi was out.) After they finished eating ice cream we visited the roof with the panoramic view, fogged in but still beautiful. We returned to the apartment and all the housemates were singing along to modern pop songs. We chatted briefly on the phone with Kiana who stayed home for this trip. Throughout the time we spent in the minivan Akemi counted Mini Coopers with a silver counter like one might use at an admissions gate. They drove me home before continuing on to their home. Amputagged recent new purchases: maroon linen shorts, a blue woven plaid scarf, a blue and white star neck warmer, a bag in the form of a denim puppy with a zippered pouch in its back.
Sat Jul 13, 2019
Handwashed a new blue woven plaid scarf. Breakfast at home with Patrick: grits and Mel's Kitchen Cafe biscuits, 8 ounces of orange juice, for me only: hot water. Patrick found that this biscuit recipe made perfect biscuits. Took Long Life Good Health web and email offline at Patrick's request and set the domain to not renew when it expires in May 2020. Began new work on a new favicon for Patrick's website to replace the white dog on red background made not too long ago. Lunch at home with Patrick: leftovers from his lunch yesterday: delivery from Kingdom of Dumpling via Uber Eats: pork and celery dumplings, shrimp and chive dumplings, a pancake of some kind. Continued favicon work. We abandoned the idea of a New Orleans gas lamp after some hours of attempt and instead did a simpler fleur-de-lis. Midafternoon meal and dinner: leftovers. Watched Stranger Things s3:e4 on Netflix instant watch with Patrick and popcorn. Late snack: crinkle-cut fries with ketchup, hot water. Performed iDrive maintenance, troubleshot a problem with a network volume failing to display folders and files despite mounting successfully. The problem was caused by overlapping problems: duplicate mount point and lost permissions. The problems were resolved by removing the duplicate mount point and then resetting permissions on the volume.
Sun Jul 14, 2019
Breakfast: leftover shrimp and chive pancake, hot water. Began emergency repotting of orchids due to fungus gnats. Early midmorning meal: leftover risotto, hot water. Discovered that unopened orchid potting medium that I had had for a long time had grown mold. Rode Muni to Sloat Garden Center for new medium, stopping at Java Beach for a ham and cheese croissant with hot water. Returned home via UberX because it was a 30-minute wait for the next train. Completed repotting. Took a defective Belkin USB hub out of service for Patrick and replaced it with a Plugable USB hub. More iDrive maintenance and babysitting. Snack: peanut butter on sourdough tartine. Watched Stranger Things s3:e5 on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Scanned childhood photos. Dinner at home with Patrick: beer-battered fish fillet burgers with fixins, onion rings, hot water. Mocktails: shirley temple #1. Watched Stranger Things s3:e6 on Netflix instant watch with Patrick followed by various clips on YouTube. Scanned childhood photos. Washed dishes.
Mon Jul 15, 2019
No breakfast. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Followup with Qualtrics theming inquiry. Reported false positive broken links to Siteimprove. For some 403 errors they said to just ignore them since those sites were blocking their bots. Followup with CGEH launch. Siteimprove work: encouraging people to remove CVs in PDF form and instead link to UCSF Profiles. Attempted to lunch at the JCC and found that the cafe has closed. They are planning to reopen with another vendor. Lunch at Smokin' Warehouse Barbecue. I knew I had had a mediocre experience at this restaurant in the past, but I thought I'd give them another try. I had the brisket sandwich with a side of mac and cheese. The mac and cheese had good flavor and texture but the pasta was too soft, almost smooshy. It seems like they cook the mac and cheese with an essence of jalapeno oil, not enough to be spicy, but it's distinctly there. Parts of the mac and cheese were unpleasantly hardened, as though it hadn't regularly been stirred while sitting on a burner. The sandwich was extremely disappointing. The bun was submarine-style, sesame-coated, and perfectly toasted. The brisket was piled on generously and in chunks so large that I decided I could not eat it with my hands—too messy. The brisket was not tender at all, and the flavorful and just-the-right-tang bbq sauce seemed to have been put on at the end rather than cooked through during the cooking process. Nothing else was included in the sandwich—no lettuce, tomato, mayo. I threw half of it in the trash. Service at the counter was exceptionally pleasant by today's standards. My stomach felt queasy for the next hour. Followup with Robert C about the OSACA's permissions problems with a server folder. Read RGD Ontario's Access Ability: A Practical Handbook on Accessible Graphic Design (free pdf). Rode Uber Pool to SoMa. Met Patrick for couples counseling. Rode UberX to the Castro. Dinner at Hi Tops with Patrick: Boylan cola for Patrick, busta move cocktail and water for me. We shared a chicken burger (the sauce is just a little too spicy for me) with fries and a half order of nachos. The nachos come with sliced jalapenos which we forgot to ask them to omit. We had too much food (as I had predicted); we finished the burger and fries but ate less than half the nachos—too full. Rode UberX home. Watched Anjelah Johnson's TED talk on YouTube with Patrick.
Tue Jul 16, 2019
Breakfast at home: egg, provolone, and mexican-seasoned ground chicken on toasted english muffin, hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Responded to a request from Adam R about web editing and images. CGEH review followup to Katherine K. OSACA server folder permissions problem followup with Robert C. Followup on Qualtrics inquiry. More CGEH followup. 1:1 with Eric. Automated news template work. People content maintenance followups. More automated news template work. Configured synchronization of some home folder items to Dropbox so that I can mirror a development configuration at home. Walked and rode Muni home, stopping at Cal-Mart for groceries along the way. Resolved a problem on Patrick's MacBook Pro in which the internal speakers were no longer present in the Sound pane in Preferences. I resolved it by unplugging the cable to the docking station then restarting the computer. No lunch. Afternoon snack: a handful of sunflower seeds. Dinner at home with Patrick: Yan-kit's chicken glazed in hoisin sauce with steamed white rice, Hint blackberry. Dessert: for Patrick: ice cream with one crumbled fudge-covered Oreo, for me: one red Twizzler and one fudge-covered Oreo. Watched Stranger Things s3:e7 on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Rested with Patrick while he went to sleep. Washed dishes.
Wed Jul 17, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights, stopping at Peet's for an almond croissant, which I ate at my desk with water. Automated news template work all day with Susie and Eric. Followup with OSACA and Robert C and Ryan P on the network folder problem. Followup with Siteimprove on various minor issues. Registered for BADcamp 2019. Lunch: dried fruit. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: DiGiorno pepperoni pizza (from frozen), Hint water, red wine for me. Watched Stranger Things s3:e8 on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Dessert: leftover boston cream pie from frozen. Rested with Patrick while he went to sleep. Washed dishes. Continued setting up local dev for home websites mirrored from my MacBook Pro via Dropbox and symlinks on Patrick's MacBook Pro under a separate account for me: installed XCode (and also Plex Media Player) and Command Line Tools, got Homebrew working, installed vim.
Thu Jul 18, 2019
Breakfast at home: breakfast burrito, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Asana task followup. Sprint standup. Automated news followup with Eric and Susie. Encountered a discrepancy with data that HR sent us, followed up with Diana K and Luke H. Cleaned my desktop. Uploaded photos of Parnassus to The Archive and my personal Flickr account. Lunch: nuts and dried fruit, water. Drupal template work: change the search block title from h2 to div because it comes before each page's h1. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: mushroom quesadilla with fixins, water. To bed early. Woke around 11 pm. Had three teaspoons of caramel toffee ice cream. Stopped trying to use Dropbox to sync local dev for home websites because I realized only now that it doesn't properly support symlinks. Did some travel preparation. Back to bed around 3 am.
Fri Jul 19, 2019
Sensorio and wine tasting in Paso Robles day 1 of 3. Breakfast: an apple. Cut my hair, showered. Packed for a trip to Paso Robles for wine tasting and Bruce Munro's Sensorio, staying at a VRBO with Phil, Drew, Danny, Romy, Nate, Quyen, Dave N. Couldn't go: Chris was in Oregon, Wayne had family in from out of town. I got picked up around 1 pm. We took a strange Google Maps route that Phil followed, stopping for gas along the way. Grocery shopping at Albertson's. We met Quyen, Dave, and Nate at the VRBO. Dinner at the VRBO: various barbecued meats, tater tots, rice, salad, corn on the cob, french bread. Afterwards most of the group watched standup by Jo Koy on television.
Sat Jul 20, 2019
Sensorio and wine tasting in Paso Robles day 2 of 3. Breakfast in the VRBO. Wine tasting at L'Aventure, which Dave M had set up for us. We learned that at the nearby California Mid-state Fairgrounds Cardi B was playing tonight and Blake Shelton was playing tomorrow night. Tin City: Negranti Creamery for ice cream. Olive oil tasting at Olivas de Oro. Continued wine tasting at Levo. Lunch at The Canteen. We shared french fries, steak frites, black cod with ratatouille special, mushroom pizza, margherita pizza. Austin Hope. Krobar Distillery. Tooth and Nail Winery. Back to the VRBO. Nap. Quick dinner: leftovers. We visited Bruce Munro: Field of Light at Sensorio, an art installation by Bruce Munro in which many thousands of fiber optic lights filled a large, valley-like open space nestled among some trees. We arrived shortly after sunset, and there was still enough light to take photos of people and still see their faces. As the evening progressed we were immersed in darkness and the many pinpoints of light floating gently within globes atop plastic stems. It's an enchanting experience unlike anything I have seen before. I had forgotten my handwarmers, but it was not terribly cold this evening, and there was no chilly wind like some TripAdvisor reviews had mentioned. All the staff were exceptionally polite, and the event seemed to be very professionally run, considering that it appears to be a long-term temporary event. Jineanne Coderre performed and was great to hear. We walked to the end and back, enjoying the lights from different heights, angles, and vantage points. We had just eaten, so we didn't stop in the food and drink area. Back to the VRBO. We relaxed, some of us by the fireplace and some in the hot tub. I had a mint chocolate chip Klondike bar.
Sun Jul 21, 2019
Sensorio and wine tasting in Paso Robles day 3 of 3. Breakfast in the VRBO: grapes, cherries, leftovers. Packed, tidied, and departed the VRBO. We walked around Downtown City Park in Paso Robles. Visited the Paso Robles Historical Society. Wine tasting at Justin Winery's downtown tasting room, opened within the past year. Nate joined their wine club, and we enjoyed a charcuterie platter along with our tasting. We stopped briefly at Brown Butter Cookie Company to taste and did not buy. We lunched at Fish Gaucho, with excellent service by Josh. I had scallop tacos and a margarita. Phil drove us home, stopping at Soledad for gas. There was a long line at a probably-unpleasant, detached gas station restroom, so at Phil's suggestion I walked to the nearby Starbucks to use the restroom. Afterwards I ordered a drink, and there was a backlog of orders, so it took a few minutes longer than normal. Romy finished watching Stranger Things season 3 along the way. They dropped me at home then continued home. Dinner at home: indian food that Patrick had earlier ordered for delivery. Resolved cPanel error "Could not exec shell /bin/bash with errno = 2" via the solution found on farbyte.uk: edit crontab and specify full paths for everything. Did some file and directory housekeeping on my web hosting account. Caught up on journaling. Domain name reg maintenance for a home website. Troubleshot error "ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" but didn't see any solutions that seemed to fit my case in which it happens sometimes but other times this error does not occur and the connection takes place successfully. My guess: server load.
Mon Jul 22, 2019
Breakfast at home: one apple, one toasted everything bagel with whipped cream cheese and zaatar, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Continued resolving issues with headings out of order. Helped Leslie F with a request for changes to fellowship pages. Snacked on nuts and dried fruit. Permissions granting for LW microsite. D8 discussion in Jira. Rode Uber Pool to the Mission. Met Patrick at Alamo Drafthouse. Walked to dinner at the extremely noisy El Techo Lolinda: pacifico for Patrick, margarita for me, guac and chips then pollo en adobo to share. Service by Greycy was good. Afterwards we saw and enjoyed The Farewell at Alamo Drafthouse. This film felt very real to me in that it matched a lot of my experiences. We recommend it. Rode UberX home. Rested while Patrick went to bed. Arose. Continued troubleshooting linkchecker issues for home websites. To bed at 1:20 am.
Tue Jul 23, 2019
Breakfast at home: one toasted everything bagel with whipped cream cheese and zaatar, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights, stopping at Cal-Mart for a few groceries along the way. Followup with Esteban B about a request for the CGEH website. Responded to a request for editing help from Liana C. Lots of Asana task followup and cleanup. 1:1 with Eric. Lunch: no-oil, no-salt microwave popcorn, water. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Errand: drug store. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Trattoria da Vittorio via Uber Eats: pepperoni pizza, salad. Dessert: two small pieces each of dark chocolate, one with hazelnut toffee, the other with cherries. Rested with Patrick while he went to sleep. Arose. Troubleshot internet problems for some time and then realized our internet provider was performing maintenance; nothing to fix.
Wed Jul 24, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights, stopping for breakfast at Starbucks Laurel Village along the way: smoked shoulder bacon breakfast sandwich, water. Began delivering broken link reports to web editors on pharm.ucsf.edu. Siteimprove work: reported false positive broken links to Siteimprove, created new groups per person. Helped Mandy M with markup on the Residencies website. No lunch. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: black bean sauce shiitake and soy protein stir-fry over steamed white rice, club soda with ginger syrup. Rested. Dessert: two macarons each: one was lemon, the other was vanilla. Milk for Patrick, Bailey's on ice for me. House chores. Rested while Patrick went to sleep. Arose. House chores. Pantry organization.
Thu Jul 25, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover indian food with steamed white rice, water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Recorded audio and took photos at the Becoming a Pharmacist Panel, part of orientation for our newest PharmD students. I filled in for Grant and Levi who were both unavailable. Joel moderated. The panelists were BJG, Marilyn S, resident CB, and student RT. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Began setup for QBI people to post events to our websites. Processed audio and photos. Various task followup, including the start of some Qualtrics theme work. Reset my local dev mirror in Dropbox; decided I can deal with the symlinks after all. Walked and rode Muni home, stopping at Walgreens along the way for a few items. Dinner at home with Patrick: blanched kale chiffonade with linguine in beef and mushroom ragu. Dessert: caramel toffee ice cream sundae for Patrick, burgundy cherry gelato and side of TJ's chocolate-pistachio toffee for me. Rested while Patrick went to sleep. Arose. House chores. More local dev sync setup, successfully got journal sync working again. Resolved problems with linklint not checking https sites by downgrading from version 2.3.6.c to 2.4.beta—it works! Resolved broken links in Corinna's and Tina's websites.
Fri Jul 26, 2019
Pre-breakfast: two small plums, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights, stopping at Starbucks Laurel Village along the way for a reduced-fat turkey bacon and cage-free egg white breakfast sandwich and a cup of water. I ordered the water with no ice, but when I picked it up it had ice. I didn't complain and drank it anyway. Sprint standup. Styling work: people tables. Drupal Dev meeting at MCB. James gave a ride to me and Eric. James discussed the Docksal setup he and Eric worked on. Rode Uber Pool home. It took so long that I got $5 back because they didn't complete the trip within their estimated time. Dinner at home with Patrick: grilled salmon with mashed potatoes and asparagus, with me helping in the kitchen. Spent several hours trying to get local dev with MAMP Pro mirrored to Patrick's laptop and failed.
Sat Jul 27, 2019
Slept in. Breakfast at home: leftovers. Lunch: leftovers. Cleaned the garage door and entry door of mold, pulled weeds. Rested. Watched part of The Favourite on Netflix DVD with Patrick and Skinny Pop butter popcorn. Dinner at home with Patrick: potstickers, hot water. Finished watching the movie. Late meal: leftover ragu with linguini, then, as the linguini was consumed at a faster rate than the ragu, again with leftover white rice; hot water.
Sun Jul 28, 2019
Slept in. Breakfast at home with Patrick: we together prepared an aspargus fritatta and had that with biscuits that Patrick had frozen from a previous batch. Patrick napped. Walked and rode Muni to SoMa for Up Your Alley Fair. Met with Stephen then later the pup called London, and we wandered the fair. Met or encountered RJ, Ellis, Hien N, Kam S, Adrian C, JY, Michael T, (Eric?), Ed S, Matthew S, Larry H, Larry C, Chris C, Calvin GL, Matt W, Michael L, and many more. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: hard-shell tacos with refried beans, ground chicken with mexican seasoning, and other fixins, Hint water. Did some broken link resolution for home websites.
Mon Jul 29, 2019
Breakfast at home: one red apple, one toasted everything bagel with whipped cream cheese, 1.5 pints of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Virtual standup. Received repeated phone calls and unsolicited voicemails from 888-195-9703, 888-084-1557, 888-141-2677, 888-300-9698, and 888-825-1858 that I presume to be all the same scam or phishing related to alleged social security number misuse. Completed and committed styling work to resolve people table issues that Mandy M had reported. Filed pcard paperwork. Cleaned people table markup on production sites in preparation for code fixes reaching production on Wednesday. Asana task followup.
Tue Jul 30, 2019
Breakfast at home: one-egg breakfast burrito, one pint of hot water. Helped Patrick work around some mail connection issues. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. 1:1 with Eric then webadmin meeting. Created and delivered a digital letterhead template for postdoc JM. Followup with QBI team on setup for events postings. Answered several questions from Angela about web editing issues. Followup with Diana K about the June report. Chatted briefly with Eric, Grant, and Levi about 360-degree interactive video. Began gathering stats on our panelizer layout usage in prep for our Drupal 8 migration. Asana task followup: no ability to edit slideshow image titles reported by Paul K. No lunch; snacked on some pistachios and dried fruit. Dinner at home with Patrick: bowl of two-mushroom soup, homemade biscuit from frozen for me, slice of bread with butter for Patrick, Hint water. Dessert for me: one small piece of dark chocolate with toffee, one red Twizzler. Patrick took a bath. Did research regarding the confusing nightmare that has become trying to use a Java application in a home or work setting without paying a license to Oracle (or anyone) and remaining safe from security threats and threats of having violated a license agreement. House chores: washed dishes, made a new batch of ice. Late meal: leftover steamed white rice with leftover ragu.
Wed Jul 31, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover steamed white rice with leftover ragu and some fresh, sliced green onions; one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Responded to a request from Rodney to be backup for him while he is out. Followup with QBI team on setup for events postings. Responded to inquiries from Angela K about resolving missing related profiles on news pages. Followup with Babbitt Lab web team regarding an outage. Styling work to resolve a problem reported by Paul K with Lei Wang's website. Followup with Mandy M about the problem she reported with people tables on the Residencies website. Chatted briefly with Alexa T about listserv management and PharmD Ed news. Followup with Joel on importing P1 names and addresses into Mailchimp. Installed an update for Docker which then broke my Docksal setup. Now it times out while resolving host and eventually gives error ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED. Gathered info on layout usage in prep for D8 migration. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: mushroom and saffron risotto, side salad with buttermilk ranch dressing, Hint water. Dessert: for Patrick: chai latte ice cream with burgundy cherry ice cream with garam masala syrup, for me: chai latte ice cream with garam masala syrup and a side of fresh raspberries. I resolved a problem with Patrick's email settings by changing plus signs to at signs in the login for his Bluehost email account. Patrick went to bed. I watched clips on YouTube. House chores: dishes. Reconfigured Dropbox to hold home websites but chose to not try to mirror MAMP Pro settings again. Recently Patrick has begun trying a bi-phasic sleep pattern.