Friday, April 29, 2005
Breakfast: Joe's Os with banana. Still sick, but getting better. Worked from home again today. Started putting together the new Maps & Locations page that Susie and I agreed we needed. Did a lot of web housekeeping and code cleaning. Lunch: Canadian bacon and cream cheese mini sandwiches, leftover soup. Today I realized that my journal was stuck on April 18 and wouldn't display any entries after that even though I was writing them just about every day. Turns out I was missing a slash character in the closing <desc> tag. Sorry to all my regular readers out there!—all 3 of you. If I haven't written in my journal in 1 or 2 days, I probably have been with a cold or something like that. If I haven't written in 3 or 4 days, I'm probably not alive anymore, or, like this time, there's been a small problem. Patrick did a little shopping today, found a polo shirt he likes for his new teaching position and Nordstrom's let him exchange a pair of shoes that turned out to be so squeaky on certain floors as to cause him emotional distress. Because of my cold, I haven't left the house, really, since the 23th—a whole week—except to take out the garbage and move the car for street cleaning. The worst of it occurs at night—phlegm in my chest causes me to cough forcefully about once a minute, even after taking cough syrup. Sometimes I lie awake coughing for hours trying to sleep. Amazingly, Patrick doesn't hear any of it, and I don't know how, but he sleeps right through it. My daytime energy got better starting on the 4th day, but still with occasional similar coughing every day but less frequent when I'm awake. So tonight I feel well enough and tired enough of being home all the time that we go to Eric's Restaurant for dinner. I received an excellent score on my recent blood test (for which I studied diligently), so it's another reason to celebrate in a small way. We have the combination appetizer platter, sesame chicken, lemon prawns, brown rice, and tea. About $34 after a $6 tip—much less expensive than our recent and similar meal at Xiao Loong. (The dishes are priced somewhat higher at XL, and Xiao Loong doesn't provide tea for free—if you want it, it's gourmet tea, and priced accordingly.) It's a longer drive for us, but Eric's is definitely a better value. It's too bad there's nothing else to do right around Eric's—whenever we go to Noe Valley, it's for Eric's, and since there's nothing else there to do afterward we always end up coming right home. My fortunes (2): Friendship is the key to finding the answer you're looking for—and—You will enjoy good health and financial independence. Patrick's fortune: Good things come to those who wait. Be patient.