Sunday, December 14, 2003
Breakfast at Bagel Bros. on Castro Street: Patrick had a french toast bagel with honey walnut cream cheese spread. I had an onion bagel with 2 eggs and cheddar. We shared a large coffee. About $7. Returned videos to Superstar: About $6. Looked for a gift for Patrick's mom in various shops, but he didn't find anything he liked. Groceries at Safeway. At home while listening to Holiday Classics on Netscape Radio, "Feliz Navidad" came on and Patrick was surprised to hear that I knew the lyrics and was singing along. (I had learned it in grade school—it's not that hard, really.) I found the lyrics online so he could sing with me. We copy-pasted the line "prospero ano y felicidad" into AltaVista's Babelfish language translator and when we saw that the result was "prospero anus and happiness" we laughed and laughed. When we fixed "ano" so that it had a tilde over the n, the translation came out more as expected: "prospero year and happiness." Coded all poetry and all but 3 pieces of fiction for Lodestar. Bios are in. Sent everything to Patrick for review. Lodestar Issue 8 goes live in about a week. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp quesadillas and cow and refried bean tacos. Patrick worked on revisions to Second Island. We baked cookies together: Betty Crocker cookie mix with M and M candies.