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Sunday, August 2, 2026
Slept in so late that I didn't have breakfast. Midday Phil, Drew, and Tai picked up Patrick and me in a new-to-us Rivian that was purchased in March. We lunched at The Old Clam House, meeting Tony and Tadija there for a celebration meal. Tony and Tadija shared a cup of clam chowder and linguine with assorted seafood. Tai had a sizzling platter of shrimp and mussels. Drew had a lobster roll with salad. Phil had a fishwich and fries. Patrick and I shared bread bowl clam chowder and a lobster roll with fries. Several dishes were notably salty. All who tried the clam chowder enjoyed it. Drew was impressed with the shrimp and mussels platter, saying it looked better than another place's. All food was finished except Patrick and I took home a bunch of fries. Timing was poor at times, notably two coffees arriving very late and a very long delay between T and T's chowder cup and everything else, but service was otherwise very good. This was Patrick's and my first time dining at this historic location—seemingly the 2nd oldest continuously operating restaurant in San Francisco if you don't count the pandemic, despite what their website claims. Roder Uber home. I napped. Dinner at home with Patrick: pepperoni pizza from frozen with fresh thyme, hot water. I wasn't very hungry and had only a tiny slice. Afterwards we watched YouTube then Widow's Bay s1:e8 on Apple TV then YouTube. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen at a break in the middle. Patrick went to bed. I processed more dirty dishes, cleaned the kitchen, and started the dishwasher. Troubleshot Apple Reminders failing to synchronize. I tried turning Reminders synch off then waiting 10 minutes then on on all my devices, but that didn't fix it. When logged into iCloud on a web browser I attempted to mark a reminder complete and encountered "Unable to Complete Reminder, The reminder could not be completed due to a server error." I logged out of iCloud on my MacBook Pro then tried the same action and it began synching to other devices correctly. I logged in and the problem returned. Notably, on my Mac, in Reminders, in the left sidebar below the big buttons, I would see a spinner icon spinning to the right of the label "My Lists" that would spin forever and never stop. I deleted and recreated one reminder and that seemed to fix it but just for that one. This reminder was in an unshared list.