Saturday, April 29, 2006
Assisted Susie with the Medicare Part D workshop at Mission Creek. The event went very well. I met Timothy Cutler and Marilyn Stebbins as well as a lot of other people involved with the event. Though it was definitely a successful group effort, Susie did an amazing job putting everything together so seamlessly. I got breakfast and coffee at Safeway with Tim. There were some computer problems—initially the computers wouldn't connect to the building's wireless access point, but an ipconfig/renew fixed that. Also, after connecting successfully, many computers would lose their wireless connection some time later—very frustrating. Afterwards I went shopping in Union Square, stopped at Armani Exchange (clothes fit but t-shirts were $44!), Benetton (nothing I liked, store was empty like usual—how does it stay open?), H and M (the line for the dressing room had about 30 people—why do people spend hours here just to save a few dollars?), and eventually bought a two-piece Burberry suit for myself. I've never owned a suit before, and a great salesperson named Jay helped me with the selection, and I found his knowledge invaluable. While waiting for the seamstress to arrive, another man asked him if the suit he was trying on was black or blue. Jay looked at the tag (Hugo Boss) and told him it was blue (it looked black to me) and added that you can tell it's black or blue by the last digit on one of the numbers on the tag—1 means black and 4 means blue (or maybe it was the other way around—I don't recall). I had a very late lunch by myself at We Be Sushi (415-565-6749, 538 Valencia Street): ebi, unagi, hamachi, california maki: $11.50 before tip. Went to Phil and Drew's. Helped Drew with a laptop problem. We watched the channel 2 news (FOX) which covered the Part D workshop. Vietnamese sandwiches for dinner with Phil, Drew, Tony. I chatted with Jason in Arizona—someone Tony had met while visiting Chicago.