Friday, March 26, 2021
Cesar Chavez holiday. Ran in place to Apple News Today, Fifth and Mission, and NPR Up First podcasts then various videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Removed identifying labels from grocery delivery paper bags using a stinky permanent marker then left them outside so the smell would dissipate. Tried to figure out from San Francisco Recology's website how to recycle or trash clothing that isn't suitable for reuse, eventually found that it's okay to go in the landfill bin. I looked for better options, but no place made it easy. I found one place that sent you an 11 x 11 x 20 box with a prepaid shipping label that you could fill with textiles and they would handle them appropriately, but it cost $120!—nope. Patrick said something to the effect that if they can't make it easy to do something more ethical then it deserves to go to the landfill, and I have to agree. Lunch: small bean and roasted veggies taco with mozzarella and mixed greens, water. Attempted to figure out how to return an All-Clad fry pan under warranty. There is no website method to initiate a warranty return—you have to call. The recording at their 1-800-255-2523 number said their hours were Monday to Friday 9 to 12 and 1 to 4 Eastern. They're open only six hours per day, optimized only for people on the East Coast. So their phone support ends at 1:00 p.m. Pacific, and I had attempted to call a little after 1:00 p.m. and was rather dumbfounded that for the four remaining business hours on the West Coast they are simply not available. I guess for some reason they can't hire more than one person to provide customer service. Upon hearing this news, Patrick said, "Well, I guess we're not buying All-Clad anymore." Recycled Mom Ryan's old iPhone 5s via Apple. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Trash management: shredded lots of old mailing labels. Vacuuming. Snack: pretzels, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick grilled boudin which he special-ordered from New Orleans. We had that in addition to delivery from Brenda's Meat and Three: molasses-black-walnut iced coffee and red beans and rice for Patrick, kale and chicory salad for me, crawfish beignet to share, water for me. Everything was great, even the beignet, which was covered in a red spice which we believe was paprika and which was not spicy. The crawfish inside was a bit spicy, but I could handle it. The red beans and rice was too spicy for me; I had only a bite. The salad I thought was perfect. The sugar cane dressing and sliced grapes provide a sweetness to balance the slight bitterness of the chicory. The coarsely chopped almonds provide a contrasting texture to the squishy grapes and the soft cow's milk feta. Everything was chopped or sliced to an appropriate and aesthetically pleasing size. So healthy, too. Afterwards we watched Superstore s6:e14 and e15 on Hulu Basic Plan then Falcon and Winter Soldier s1:e2 on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. Late small meal: leftover kale and chicory salad, water. I washed a few dishes. Troubleshot problems with CCC: "The device that hosts the source network volume is not available." and "Some non-critical errors were reported during the backup task." I resolved the problem by manually unmounting volumes on the computer with CCC on it, then restarting both the source and destination computers, then on the source computer renaming the computer in sharing preferences to remove a dash and a number. Continued playing Where Cards Fall. Started playing Patterned. Both of these Apple Arcade games are very relaxing puzzlers, and I recommend them.