Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Day 11 of a cold. TouchID again lost my fingerprint after restarting from an external USB drive. Breakfast at home with Patrick: omelette, hash brown, sausage patty, pumpkin english muffin. Rode Uber Pool to UCSF Laurel Heights. Identity retheme work all day with a little bit of microsites work: SMDC and Arkin Lab. Lunch: almost ate at As Quoted but walked out due to too much noise. Lunch at Picnix: five-spice chicken with rice and side salad, lemon-flavored sparkling water. 1-on-1 with Eric. Rode Uber Pool to the Castro. Met Patrick for dinner at Poesia: we shared: bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, insalata invernale (fennel, arugola and oranges salad in citrus vinagrette). Patrick had fileji di renato (Calabrese spiral pasta with pork ribs sugo in roasted garlic tomato sauce). I had a tagliatelle with mushrooms special. Dessert: we shared an order of tiramisu, which turned out to be larger than the tiramisu at most restaurants. One espresso each. $129.76 after an $18 tip. Service by Alessandro R was terrific. After dinner we visited the Castro Theatre for a showing of Tom of Finland, a biopic of Touko Laaksonen. The film was better than I had imagined, with just the right amount of humor, tenderness, and poignancy.