Friday, June 3, 2011
Breakfast at home: nonfat organic vanilla yogurt with Grandma Goodie's super granola and fresh, diced organic green apple. Rode the bus to work. Tested and delivered the HTML email announcement for Sue and Susie. Password reset for Shirin and Lisa. Linkchecking, Flickr work, kiosk work. PID reg work: implemented silent post. Before I did this, the code that updated the database to say someone had successfully paid did not occur until after they clicked the Continue button on their receipt page. If they just closed the browser window instead of clicking Continue, their payment would not be recorded. Supp app project work in Drupal: backed up the filesystem and mysql, upgraded Drush to 4.4, updated Drupal core from 6.20 to 6.22. Next step: make sure nothing broke, prepare to implement silent post. Muni to Epicenter Cafe: ratatouille (too spicy and I ate hardly any of it), side salad, chai tea latte. Matt Alber concert at Hotel Utah Saloon, encountered Thom and Jeff. The concert was sold out, perhaps slighly oversold. This particular venue had seating for some people and lots of standing room. Thom, Jeff, and I stood behind tables off of stage right. There was an upstairs section, but the angle was quite sharp so we stayed where we were. Some of us couldn't see Matt well or at all when he played the piano which was at far stage right. He played tracks from "Hide Nothing," some tracks I hadn't heard before, and 2 covers: "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves and "Take a Bow" by Madonna. Matt Alber sang and played beautifully. Sound and lighting seemed excellent to me. Afterwards I bought the "Hide Nothing" cd for $20, happy to support his music with a direct purchase. Keywords for this show: heartfelt, personal, sweaty, packed. Dinner by myself at Citizen's Band: veggie special: diced squash biscuit sandwiches, side salad, green tea. I was pleasantly surprised by this dish. It has a lot of flavors that at first I thought might not go well together but after I tasted it I declared it a win. The salad greens were too bittery on their own but when eaten in the same bite as the rich biscuit laden with diced squash and a complex sauce I didn't catch it was perfect. Service was friendly and efficient. Club Dragon at Club Eight. Paul Goodyear in the main room, Joey Jinks upstairs, both very good. Encountered Jason P, Larry H, Ric L, Emery M; met Chris, David, Ryan. I hailed a taxi within 2 minutes right outside of Club Eight. It was raining steadily, and the driver was driving really fast. On the curves on Portola the taxi spun rather wildly out of control, and
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we fortunately didn't crash. There was even a car following us. Hardened from my experiences being a passenger on the road between Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng, I wasn't scared at all. I was his last customer before his shift ended, so he was trying to just get done for the night. We had a nice chat the rest of the way. He drove a little slower than before.