Saturday, October 20, 2007
I had a realization recently and it goes like this: In the grocery stores of my childhood nearly everything in the store had price stickers on them. The one thing that didn't have price stickers then was fruit. Now, nearly everything in a grocery store is stickerless in the same manner, except for the fruit. Brunch with Chris, Nate, and Alex: pastries to go from Patesserie Phillipe (415-558-8016, 655 Townsend Street), which makes an astounding array of desserts. Ate at Chris and Nate's. Alex is in town from Honolulu and wanted to visit a particular winery in Healdsburg called Preston Vineyards aka Preston of Dry Creek, so we all went in his rental car. We sampled 4 wines: sauvignon blanc 2006, barbera 2005, L. Preston, and one more I can't remember. We ate a flax seed and blue cornmeal round of bread with some cheeses. We bought many bottles of wine. One good thing to know for next time: West Dry Creek Road is small and rough, so it's probably faster and more comfortable to continue on 101 past Healdsburg to Canyon Road before heading west along Canyon Road and Yoakim Bridge Road. Drove back to SF. We all went to dinner at Basil: chicken satay, coconut milk soup, panstickers, pad thai, ginger chicken. Home. Worked on Danny's website: prepped pages for facials and packages. Our upstairs neighbor Zach parked his motorcycle nearly obstructing the entrance to our home again after I had asked him to park in a different place, so today I left as polite a message as I could letting him know that next time I'll have it towed. Our upstairs neighbors continue to not do their share of handling the garbage can duties. I asked the landlord for access to some touch-up paint—he said he'll check and let me know in a few days.