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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, toasted sliced almonds, diced half banana; hot water. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. Continued Benet event design work: agenda foam core poster, sent drafts of two documents to Sahru for review/approval. Retested a problem uploading a jpg image to pharm, and the problem no longer happens, even off of VPN. Lunch at home by myself: deli minestrone with french bread revived by steaming, water. Patrick returned with groceries. Sam stopped in a moment to say hello. Home chores: trash management, vacuumed, cleaned and changed water in flower vase, emptied and cleaned another flower vase. Drupal styling work: wysiwyg menus. Afternoon snack: multigrain chips, water. Listserv management, including altering config to grant Su and CCI more permissions. Finalized the commencement program and delivered files to Leslie CS and Julia S. Followup with Maddie from ResourceSpace and with Siva from BrowserStack. Weeded unused accounts in The Archive. Walked and rode Muni to Zuni Cafe where we met Paolo and Lucie for dinner. We shared: shoestring fries, polenta, white asparagus, and roast chicken for two. Drinks included conejo malo, elderflower cocktail, San Francisco cocktail, sparkling water, and club soda. For dessert, we shared blood orange upside-down cake and gateau victoire. All food and drink were delicious. 20% fair wage gratuity was included. Service by Joshua and all was excellent. We sat at table 33/1, which is at the top of the stairs facing Market Street. We talked about doom loop, the housing crisis, Kitchen Table, poetry, stand-up comedy (including John Mulaney, Sam Morril, and Caleb Hearon), restaurants including Breadbelly, coffee including Saint Frank Coffee and Grand Coffee and Le Llave, The Taste of Things (2023), Monkey Man (2024), San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington state, Martha's Vineyard, Montreal, India, Ireland, and much, much more. Paolo and Lucie gave us a ride home. Patrick went to bed. Cutting board wood butter treatment.