Sunday, May 26, 2002
Breakfast at home: oatmeal. Patrick washes dishes then goes to Jumpin Java to write. I stay home to vacuum, take out the trash and recycling, invite Brian and Kelly to our barbecue tomorrow, clean the shower, order prescription refills, mount a shelf on the wall, remove stains from the carpet, fix problems with the journal (turns out the arg_separator configuration changed when I upgraded to PHP 4.0.6, so it's now arg_separator.input—once I changed that in the php.ini file, all worked as expected). Bought new pillows at Nordstrom's. Patrick bought a new polo shirt on sale at the Gap. Grocery shopping at Safeway. In the evening, we took a short nap before driving over to Brian and Kelly's to hang out. Their friends Chris and Trudy are in town staying with them for a weekend visit. They were exhausted from the day's events when we arrived. Brian showed me the "What kind of Asian are you?" humor e-mail that had been forwarded to him, and we all laughed at it. We talked about old computer media, new electronic music, old Disneyland rides, Star Wars II, how Chris now hates Orlando, where he and Trudy moved so that he stay employed with Disney. We listened to St. Germaine and Adam Freeland. Brian pulled out old photos of his trip to the World Trade Center as well as a very old postcard book of scenes from Disneyland circa 1960.