Sunday, October 22, 2006
Worked on Corinna's website. Brunch at Ton Kiang with Patrick and Mom Ryan. Visited the Legion of Honor with Patrick and Mom Ryan. My receipt says we were given our tickets by Yolla (employee # 125). The current main exhibit is Claude Lorrain. Neither Patrick nor I liked it very much. My camera ran out of juice when we arrived, and my spares would not function properly, so I have very few photos from the museum. Before we left, I bought a few gifts at the museum store. The member discount for us is 10%. Dropped off Mom Ryan at home. Changed clothes, packed gear, stopped at Safeway for a picnic lunch, and went to Dolores Park with Patrick. I sat in the sun, he sat in the shade. It was hard finding a spot because it was so crowded and because I could not sit near smokers, dog turds, or flies. I read from Kurt Vonnegut's SlaughterHouse Five. He read from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. When we decided to leave and picked up our blankets, I realized that one of our blankets was right over what appeared to be a dog turd that we both had missed spotting, but we hadn't smelled anything so it must've been old and cold, not hot, fresh, and steamy. C'est la vie! Although it was sunny and clear, the weather was actually too cold for sunbathing due to frequent cold breezes, but people did it anyway. We got back to the car and welcomed the heat it had gathered while we were away. Home. I napped. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover BBQ from yesterday, shells and cheese, corn on the cob.