Saturday, May 18, 2002
Woke up at 6:30 am, caught up on e-mail and craigslist. Patrick woke up at 8:05 am. Breakfast at home: oatmeal. I made this weekend's to do list this morning: vacuum the bathroom, pay bills, finish change of address notifications, put away phone cords, measure speaker wire needed for left speaker in living room 1, go to hardware store, go bicycle shopping in the Mission (Patrick is thinking he'd like a bike), see the spiderman movie, read Second Island (I'm editing as I read—I think I'm on chapter 13), scan memorabilia (we keep a digital scrapbook), take photos of the new home, change 5dollar SSH IPs. Patrick added 2 things: see Nicola Harwood's play called "Horse Latitudes", buy groceries. Today Sam, Patrick, and I caught the first matinee at the Alexandria for Spiderman. I thought it would still be crowded, as Spidey has only been open for a week or two. However, we didn't want to go to the Van Ness theatre because that theatre was also showing Star Wars II so we didn't want to deal with the crowds. It wasn't crowded at all—we watched the movie with about 60 other people. The movie was fun. The special effects were fantastic, and the predictably present love scenes were well-written. In a way I'm bored with superhero films because in every film the characters' motives are all mostly the same. The only things different are the costumes, actors, settings, and music. After the movie, we went to Sam's place where we spent about an hour trying to figure out why his brand new G4 responds slowly to a DVD made with iMovie. Turns out another DVD works fine, so hopefully he doesn't see any more trouble with other movies. Patrick and I went to lunch at In-n-Out Burger in Daly City. It was crowded. We were surprised to see so many gay people. There was a cute gay guy we sat next to. He was with his woman friend who had great black spaghetti strap sandals. He was wearing khaki-ish shorts with wide legs, so it was easy to see up them. He wore boxers, but that's about all I saw. Patrick ran into his friend Eric Rose who was with his friend whose name we can't remember. There were at least 3 other tables with gay men. We didn't see any lesbians, though. It was Patrick's first In-n-Out experience, and he liked it. He thought it was very clean and he liked the food: "At least you can taste the separate flavors in the burger." (We both got #1's.) After lunch we went to Home Depot where we got a bunch more things we needed for our new home. We came home and Patrick became Downloadman (tending to Morpheus) while I became Handyman (installing a gate latch and wiring a speaker in living room #1). We had leftovers for dinner. Patrick wrote some for Second Island. It's been a productive day.