Sunday, January 29, 2006
Breakfast: yogurt, banana, bagel with cream cheese. Patrick had cleaned up the 2nd bedroom. Shortly after I awoke, he took a quick nap. I tidied and archived documents. We went to BriKel's—Jenn Steff is in town for a short visit, and I haven't seen her in years. We had brunch at DeLissio then walked through Hayes Valley poking into various shops looking at things like travel guides, clear plastic chairs, upscale tote bags, and $4,000 dining tables. I really liked one store, Friend, in which the wooden wall curved seamlessly into the wooden floor. Afterwards we hung out for a while at BriKel's chatting about Seattle weather, housing, neighborhoods. Patrick and I left to run some errands. We went first to the Ace Hardware on Market Street. We needed two pieces of trim 1" x 1" x 9.5". They only sold trim by the entire length, so we paid $15 + $1 per cut. The two pieces of wood are for preventing our cutlery tray from sliding to the back of the drawer. They didn't have the plank we needed, so we went to Cliff's, which didn't have the plank we wanted, but we bought a compromise size there anyway. Everyone was a lot nicer to us at Cliff's than at Ace Hardware. I dropped Patrick off at Irving Street—he's meeting Wei tonight. Home. Installed the wooden plank which replaces the warped wooden plank in the 2nd bedroom closet. Caught up writing entries for my journal, which I've neglected since just before our recent move. I've mostly been able to backtrack my time at home through e-mail and receipts from purchases made at hardware stores and drug stores and restaurants. During our move, we ate out a lot because we had no access to a clean and stocked kitchen. I backtracked my time at work through e-mail. Paid some bills. Futzed with setting up long distance on the land line (still not working).