Sunday, January 27, 2013
Weight training: weighted leg lift. Breakfast at home: TJ's granola and the three berries with fresh blackberries and soy milk, hot water. Laundry. Added an item to my tumblr feed. Recharge Spa updates for Drew. Ironed a shirt. 30-minute nap. Brunch at Kitchen Story with Bill. We waited maybe 30 minutes for a two-top. Coffee and Frisco benedict for Bill, thai iced tea and mango salad with prawns for me. Food was good. My mango salad was unexpectedly spicy, but I did not complain about it. The cheddar basil biscuit that accompanied it was very delicious. It took a long time to get the bill, and when it arrived it was the wrong bill. We were busy talking, so it didn't bother us that much, but in retrospect I think we spent another 30 or 40 minutes just trying to pay the correct bill. Eventually a manager (I think) spoke with us and granted us permission to leave without paying, but I insisted on paying as long as it was the correct bill. A correct bill finally arrived with a 25% discount, I paid, and we left. (I had previously arranged with Bill that he would pick and I would pay.) Bought vegetable soup at Harvest Market. Said goodbye to Bill. I had had an exceedingly good time with him. Bought chicken cauliflower soup from Morning Due Cafe. Drove home. Laundry. Finished watching The Pet Shop Boys: Performance on Netflix DVD with Patrick. We were both very impressed with this show, and Patrick said it made him like The Pet Shop Boys even more. Dinner at home with Patrick: he had vegetable soup from Harvest Market. I had salad with carrot-ginger dressing, sunflower seeds, dried cranberry; tortilla chips and roasted pine nut hummus; two small handheld quesadillas. Bought online a large rug on sale at 57% off with rug pad. I happened to visit the website for Tong Palace (933 Clement Street) today and found myself wryly amused. It's an all-Flash website, and my first impression was that I didn't realize anyone permitted websites like this to exist anymore. Seamful, looping elevator music that plays upon load, an icon to toggle the sound, sound effects and animation upon hover of almost every element (almost like you might find in a video game), custom scrollbars, lorem ipsum on the page describing the privacy policy, five-point text (and the kind of Flash code that makes the text not scalable in the way most people know), images of food only 140 x 90 pixels—I could go on, but I'll stop there. The copyright date shown in the lower left corner says 2009, but it feels like it should instead say 1999 or maybe even 1994. I'm sure the food at Tong Palace is delicious, though. I just noticed that the bottom of my Kitchen Story receipt says, "Come create your story at Kitchen Story." Ha ha! Patrick said tonight that the chicken cauliflower soup from Morning Due Cafe was a whole lot better than the more expensive vegetable soup from Harvest Market. I think I might be getting a sore throat. Might be due to more-than-usual talking today. We'll see.