Thursday, December 23, 2004
Breakfast at home with Patrick: Aztec scramble, orange juice, blackberries and whipped cream. Sam stopped by to say hello and we exchanged gifts. I got PHP and MySQL installed and running via packages. I went to Jamie's to help him set up his new laptop—a Dell Inspiron 8600. It was frustrating and took a long time because I couldn't get any network working. They have an 802.11b Netgear router hooked to a DSL connection. The thing that eventually fixed it was cycling power on the DSL modem. In the process I discovered a neighborhood wifi (also Netgear) which I had mistaken for Jamie and Iku's which (also) didn't have security or any password set up (!). Afterwards, Patrick met me at Jamie's with a change of clothes for me and we had a quick dinner at Chow on Church (2 coffees, 1 iced tea, lasagna for Patrick, sausage pizza for me, ginger cake shared for dessert, our server was Timothy) before going to Oy Vey in a Manger 2, which was a performance of drag queens called Kinsey Sicks singing a cappella holiday tunes turned humorous and raunchy. We liked the show a lot. The writing was very sharp, both of the songs as well as the jokes in between. We were astounded by the singing. Every note seemed perfectly timed and harmonious, and Trixie's (Jeff Manabat) little opera number was a pure pleasure. Afterwards, we saw in the Muni station that the next outbound L train was 66 minutes, so we took a cab home.