June 2018
Summary: Bob the Drag Queen at Oasis
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Fri Jun 1, 2018
Breakfast at home: a pear. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. One of those days when Muni takes about an hour to travel five miles. Styling work: homepage improvements, beginning to look at laundry line images problems. Asana task followup. Microsites work: granting access to a new Wang Lab editor. Gathered and shared photos for Lisa K for Susie. Lunch at Eliza's with Patrick: soup for both, beef with black bean sauce for Patrick, chow fun for me: $24.35 after a $3 tip. Patrick's fortune: An unexpected friend will bring you fortune. My fortune: You will do well to expand your horizons. Finished reading Richard Rutter's Web Typography, which I highly recommend. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs lentils and english peas with eggs; Hint strawberry kiwi, red wine. Recharge Medical work: editing in Google Docs and form building in InDesign CC. Chatted with Adolfo via SMS.
Sat Jun 2, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: pancakes with nutmeg-topped applesauce, chocolate mint tea. Nap. House party at 15th Avenue House. Lots of people. Some names I recall: Courtney, Harvey, Anh, Yu, Greta, Kevin, Jonathan, Jesse, Phil, Danny, Romy, Drew, Nate, Theora, Chris G, Paul, Wayne, Richard, Michael, Lisa, Brianna, Itzel, Jose, Chris, Jonny, Johnny, Alyssa, Tim, Cricket, Sean. The clinic gang played Uno and maybe Cards Against Humanity. Afterwards I met A at The Mix where we chatted for a while, meeting someone from Guatemala. After that we went to Toad Hall to dance, which was fun. I realized that the video set hasn't changed in a long time because the choices/order of the songs was exactly the same as on a previous visit. Why is there a DJ in the booth if it's not mixed live? Met Clay and Xavier. Rode UberX home.
Sun Jun 3, 2018
Slept in. Brunch at 15th Avenue House: eggs, boudin, bread. We visited the de Young Museum primarily to see Weapons of Mass Seduction: The Art of Propaganda. Snack: chocolate mint chip ice cream sandwiches and dessert wine that Patrick and I had bought in Ashland. Rode Uber Pool home. Patrick and I completed our mail-in ballots for Tuesday's primary election. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs pasta e fagioli (pasta and bean ragu), Hint raspberry.
Mon Jun 4, 2018
Breakfast at home: yogurt with blueberries and chopped almonds, half of an almond croissant. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Styling work. Sprint standup. Microsites work: NMR, Craik, and CPT followup. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Lunch at Presidio Pizza Company: artichoke hearts pizza slice, side kale caesar salad, ice water. I hadn't been here in a long time and really enjoyed the light, thin crust which had a tasty tomato sauce. Stopped at the gift shop at Mt. Zion where a woman said I could have an eyeglass case for free even though I intended to pay for it. "We have extras." So nice! UCSF shuttle from Mt. Zion to Laurel Heights. Styling work: image credit minor adjustments. Rode Uber Pool to Bar Agricole. Met Patrick for dinner. This dinner at Bar Agricole was one of the worst dining experiences we've had in a long time. We arrived 10 minutes early for our reservation. There were six or so people at the bar and the restaurant was almost entirely empty. We were asked to wait at the bar before being seated at a table. We waited a really long time before the sole bartender greeted us. We waited a really long time and watched him make many drink orders before he took our order: two glasses of the wine special for $5 each. Meanwhile we had been watching as people who entered after us were being seated at dining tables. It was hard getting the attention of any host since the one that greeted us initially had disappeared. Several minutes later—and 12 minutes past our reservation time—we were finally seated. On our way to the table I told Patrick, "Watch—they'll charge us the non-happy-hour price for the wines when it appears on our bill." We shared a $20 hamburger (medium) and a chef's selection of four charcuterie items for $29. Bread and butter was an extra $5. The food arrived in a reasonable amount of time. The burger was prepared as ordered, was lukewarm, and had no lettuce, no tomato, no pickle, and was accompanied by pickled vegetables—none of which was a pickle. It tasted fine except for the low temperature. This entree is in no way worth $20 even in San Francisco. The charcuterie items tasted fine but seemed extraordinarily expensive for what you get. Are four two-millimeter-thick slices of salami worth $7? For dessert we had molasses cookies ($6) and two scoops of housemade strawberry swirl ice cream with olive oil and salt ($8). Both desserts were tasty but nothing special. I laughed repeatedly at one of the dessert items on the menu—a bowl of cherries and Triple Delight blueberries with whipped cream—because I can make that myself at home in about five minutes. A long wait for Jennifer for the check; she had disappeared for a long time. Eventually someone who was not our waitron delivered our check, and I noticed that the two glasses of wine were missing from the bill. Another long wait to get someone's attention so that I could point that out. They took the check away. I went to the restroom. When they returned they had told Patrick that they took one of the glasses off the bill because we were honest. But they charged us $6, which wasn't quite one glass off. The original price of the glass of wine was $12. The happy hour price for the same glass was $5. We couldn't figure out how what they said made sense with what we saw on the bill. At this point I said to Patrick, "Nothing makes sense in this restaurant!" and I paid and we were quite relieved to leave. We walked across the street to Oasis where we had VIP tickets to see Bob the Drag Queen. Upon entry Patrick asked about the reserved seating for VIP ticketholders and was told "We aren't doing that tonight." He pulled out his phone and found evidence of them advertising that VIP ticketholders would have reserved seating and showed it to the ticket taker. Again she said, "We aren't doing that tonight." It was at this point that Patrick decided he will never return to Oasis following our previous bad experience on May 31, 2018. For our last show at Oasis, Bob the Drag Queen told jokes and funny stories and lipsynched to tunes picked by the audience. Rode UberX home. Troubleshot and resolved internet problems using Anakin's pod racer solution.
Tue Jun 5, 2018
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Task followup. 1:1 with Eric. Resolved or staged markup and styling issues for QBC sites for Rebecca B. Updated html email templates with a fix for the "Add us to your address book" link problem in outlook.office.com. Submitted a Siteimprove request to Jill W. Styling work: various fixes. Calendar management. For lunch I walked to Pixnix and found it closed for the next 6 weeks due to refurbishment construction. I instead ate at Kaiju Eats: K.O. ramen, ice water. Very tasty and not spicy like I wanted. Styling work: table and other improvements. Errand: grocery. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs fattoush salad with cherries and mint (instead of tomatoes), Hint watermelon. We suspect that the cracker in this recipe didn't turn out exactly right—maybe not crispy enough?—but otherwise was fine enough. Waxed the dining table. Late snack: tortilla chips and guacamole, Hint mango grapefruit.
Thu Jun 7, 2018
Breakfast at home: Siggi's black cherry yogurt, Hint raspberry. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Edited the Lemonly css to correct font antialiasing issues. Styling work all day: table improvements. Rode Uber Pool to the Castro. Browsed at Cliff's Variety. Met Patrick at Dog Eared Books. Dinner and drinks at Hi Tops: fried chicken sandwiches for both. I had forgotten that these sandwiches are too spicy for me but I ate mine anyway. I ordered Patrick's with garlic fries and mine with regular fries. Patrick drank Stella. I had my usual—a Mad Bum. $35.71 before a $4 tip not including the Mad Bum.
Fri Jun 8, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs, toast with butter, hash brown, small sliced peach, 8 ounces of orange juice. Rode Uber Pool to UCSF Laurel Heights. Styling and task followup. Sprint standup. Task followup, pull quotes work, image credits work, Siteimprove work. Lunch to go from As Quoted: taco salad, water. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs chicken salad and mozzarella sandwiches. Nap. Rode UberX to SoMa for drinks and dancing at Boy Division at Cat Club. It was my first time to this event, and I think my first time to Cat Club as well. Boy Division calls itself SF's queer wave dance party: new wave, electropop, dirty disco, indie. I spent most of my time in the back room while DJ Xander spun—all great choices. The sound systems are excellent. Rode UberX to the Castro. Danced for a while at Toad Hall. Rode UberX home.
Sat Jun 9, 2018
Slept in, skipping breakfast and lunch. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Taraval Pizza via delivery.com: italian sausage, garlic, and mushroom on a 14-inch pie, vegetarian salad with blue cheese dressing. Today I decided to stop using Grubhub and Eat24 because they both automatically default to setting a tip. In fact, I could not see a way to complete my order without setting at least a tip of $0.01. Since delivery has been hit or miss for us in the past with many (half?) of our deliveries being disasters—usually meaning very late and cold—we now prefer to tip only in cash in accordance with whether the delivery was on time. It's not fair for food delivery services to ask for a tip up front and then have a delivery be 30 or more minutes late or an item was forgotten in the bag or a pizza topping was missing or some other problem. This is not rocket science. We don't want to set a tip of $0.01 because we don't know what kind of message that sends to the restaurant completing the order. All this is enough to make you want to go back to dealing with phone orders and all the problems that accompany that—poor signal because their connection is a wireless one, poor English speakers / communicators / enunciators / handwriters / typers, etc. I also learned today that about 10 months ago Grubhub bought Eat24 from Yelp. That's probably why both checkout processes have the same problem now. Watched all of John Wick 2 on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Repaired a light fixture that had broken in our kitchen area. Late meal: one slice of leftover pizza, Hint watermelon. Patrick made his beans recipe today.
Sun Jun 10, 2018
Slept in. Brunch at home: leftover chicken salad sandwich. Rode Uber Pool to Battery Godfrey for 2018 International Parkour Jam: Urban Ninja Festival. Watched for maybe an hour, also took photos of the Golden Gate Bridge. Snacked on cheese and crackers and Hint pom. Rode Muni to 19th and Lincoln, walked to 9th and Lincoln. Attended the 2018 Succulent and Cactus Show and Sale then the Inner Sunset Flea 2018 Block Party and Street Fair. Got orange creamsicle and vanilla bean frozen yogurt with chopped almond and rainbow jammies at Easy Breezy: $5. Errand: bought a baguette and two ricciarelli from Arizmendi. Rode Uber Pool home. Watched Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series part 3 on purchased DVD with Patrick. Dinner at home with Patrick: I made steamed rice to go with the beans Patrick made yesterday. Red wine, water. Dessert: one ricciarelli each, Nola coffee liqueur.
Mon Jun 11, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: brioche toast, scrambled eggs, fruit salad, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Siteimprove work. Styling work. Lunch at Native Burger: western burger with garlic fries. Rode Uber Pool to the SoMa. Met Patrick for our first day of couples counseling. Afterwards we walked to the Castro and dined on the patio at Fable. Wine for both. We shared a melon salad and a roast chicken entree. $87.42 after a $13 tip. We enjoyed our meal. Rode UberX home with Patrick. To bed early.
Tue Jun 12, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: oatmeal with fixins, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Styling work and task followup. Lunch from Cafe Bellini: grilled cheese with mushrooms, french fries: $7.54. Attended an active shooter discussion. Attended the staff fair. More styling and task followup including table styling improvements. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs cherry tomato pizza with pistachio pesto, water, red wine. Dessert for only me: one scoop of green tea ice cream. Sometime today I ate a fortune cookie as a snack. My fortune was: You will enjoy good health and financial independence.
Wed Jun 13, 2018
Breakfast at home: one nectarine, a handful of cherries. Prepped and scheduled a new html email for Susie and Grant: 2018: A Drug Odyssey. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Lunch at Out the Door: veggie steamed bun, crispy vegetarian imperial rolls, water: $21. UCSF shuttle from Mt. Zion to Laurel Heights. More html email work: list updates and content edits. Styling work: small fixes. Helped Levi and Grant with posting and prepping new news. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs roasted cauliflower, chickpeas, and apricots; san pell for Patrick, Hint blackberry for me. Resolved computer problems for Patrick and configured a way for him to listen to his created music on the Logitech Z906 speakers in the living room.
Thu Jun 14, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled egg foldover with red onion, yellow grape tomatoes, chive, parmesan; brioche toast; chai with milk. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Html email drug odyssey followup: somehow staff did not receive it so I sent only to them. Published some nodes for Grant and Levi. Styling work: minor fixes to news views. Added new people pages to iPQB CBS for Rebecca B with feed help from Terran O then committed styling fixes for same. Late lunch from The View Cafe: veggie california on multigrain with pickle, salt and pepper crinkle-cut potato chips, water. Edited a news story for Grant. Review inbox cleanup. Chatted late with Levi. Rode Uber Pool Express home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs roasted zucchini with quinoa tabbouleh, red wine, Hint blackberry. Watched Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series part 4 on purchased DVD with Patrick.
Fri Jun 15, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: oatmeal with milk, blueberries, diced apple, and other fixins; chai. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Spent the whole day updating the slideshow on all QBC and grad programs websites for Julia M and helping Grant launch news. Lunch at Artesano: vegetable stew with rice and beans, water: about $15. Rode Uber Pool to meet Patrick for dinner at A Desi Cafe: beer for Patrick, chenin blanc for me, complimentary papadum with dipping sauces, veggie pakora ($4), prawn biryani ($14), half tandoori chicken ($10), water. $52.94 after a $9 tip. Walked home. Patrick had been having a problem launching MixMeister Studio 7.3.1 in OS 10.13.5 High Sierra after not having used it for a long time. He doesn't have a copy of his receipt, and he doesn't have the same email account he used when he bought it, so it's unlikely we'll get any help from the vendor. I first tried a clean reinstall but that didn't fix it. I eventually repaired it by getting info on the application and selecting the checkbox for "open in low resolution." Watched Ali Wong: Hard Luck Wife on Netflix instant watch by myself with popcorn—hilarious and recommended.
Sat Jun 16, 2018
Breakfast at home: I prepared a brioche egg and cheddar sandwich with salt, fresh ground pepper, and herbes de provence. Repaired our Delta kitchen faucet somewhat. Cut my hair, showered. Vacuumed. Lunch and dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Resolved problems with Patrick's ability to play music tracks on the living room speakers. Watched various trailers on iTunes Movie Trailers via Plex via Roku with Patrick. Watched exactly one hour of Stargate (1994) on Amazon Prime Video with Patrick and popcorn.
Sun Jun 17, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with parmesan and finely chopped chive, hash brown, brioche toast with butter, chocolate mint tea. Patched holes in the wall left behind following our doorbell installation. Patched a crack in the ceiling. Weeded bookmarks in Chrome. Watched John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Taraval Pizza via delivery.com: 14-inch mushroom and pepperoni pizza, caesar salad, about $29 before tip. Geotagged a bunch of photos in Flickr.
Mon Jun 18, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: egg and cheddar sandwich on everything bagel, sliced pear, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Disposed of unused medications at Walgreens. They have a new disposal box that accepts inhalers. Previous disposal boxes around San Francisco did not accept inhaler canisters, so this is a welcome change for keeping our environment healthy. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Archived assets in The Archive. Announced a Communicators Group brown bag to web content editors. Lunch at Beautifull!: beef filet, penne and cheese, kale caesar, water from my Thermos water bottle, ate only half and brought the rest back to work. Table style improvements. Staff update tasks. Errand: Bryan's grocery for an avocado that was missing from our Good Eggs meals delivery. Rode UberX to SoMa. Met Patrick for couples counseling. We walked to the Castro for dinner at Super Duper: mini burger with cheese and everything on it for me, chicken burger for Patrick. We shared fries with three dipping sauces: secret sauce, chipotle, and homemade mayo. About $30 after a small tip. Rode UberX home with Patrick. Recharge Medical work: add SF hours on Tuesday 2 to 6 pm and removal of the notice of closure on all days in SF from 1 to 2 pm.
Tue Jun 19, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: pancakes belle helene: pear-stuffed chocolate pancakes topped with diced pear bathed in lemon juice, then topped with a dollop of whipped cream from a can. I added a sprinkle of cinnamon to mine. Chocolate mint tea. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Asana task followup. Siteimprove work: linkchecking and various edits. Errand: Bryan's grocery. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs panzanella with heirloom tomatoes and burrata, red wine, Hint blackberry.
Wed Jun 20, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: egg and cheddar tartine with basque seasoning and salt and pepper, black cherry siggi, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Siteimprove work. Sprint standup. Curriculum concept chart edits for Cindy and Susie. Helped Susie troubleshoot a problem that was caused by a power outlet outage. Late lunch at Hong Kong Lounge II: teriyaki beef rice noodle in clay pot with three kinds of mushroom, hot jasmine tea: $18.73 after a $3 tip. Prep work for updating hero images on qbc and grad programs websites for Julia M. Evaluating a request from Alexa T for a new html email newsletter template. Rode Uber Pool Express home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs mushroom quesadillas with cilantro salsa, red wine, Hint pineapple.
Thu Jun 21, 2018
Breakfast at home: an apple. Rode Uber Pool Express to UCSF Laurel Heights. More prep work for updating hero images on qbc and grad programs websites for Julia M. Small lunch 1: leftovers from yesterday. Internet outage, couldn't work. Small lunch 2: small order of fried rice from The View Cafe. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus with Grant and Levi. Paula's farewell party in S118. Megan's farewell party in S960. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs bbq tofu with warm potato salad and creamy coleslaw. Red wine for Patrick, Hint blood orange for both. Watched The Simpsons s29:e1 "The Serfsons" on Hulu Basic Plan with Patrick.
Fri Jun 22, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs, hash brown, brioche toast with butter. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. 2018 and Beyond Curriculum Report html email work: template adjustments, list build. QBC and grad programs hero image updates pushed live. Curriculum concept updates: web insertion. Styling work: table styling improvements, removed deprecated table styles. Late afternoon snack: Skinny Pop white cheddar popcorn, a V8. Errand: Bryan's grocery. Rode Uber Pool Express home. Dinner at home with Patrick: white beans and rice with lardons.
Sat Jun 23, 2018
Slept in. Breakfast tacos from leftovers. Patrick and I rode Muni to West Portal where we were forced to alight and transfer to a bus. Hundreds of others were already waiting as a packed double bus was about to leave. I had jokingly suggested to Patrick earlier in the day that we would be forced to alight; I know Muni too well, I guess. Just goes to show you that sometimes Muni is not the best way to travel to Pride Saturday. We walked down the block to get away from the zoo of angry passengers then ordered UberX for $20 before tip for a ride to the festival. We set our destination not too close so that the Uber driver wouldn't get stuck in traffic too much and walked a few blocks to enter the festival. This year there were two lines: bag and no bag. There seemed to be no specific designations regarding bags under 18 by 18 inches as there was in previous years. We donated $5 each and received stickers letting us get $1 off beverages at beverage stations. We got food at the place with the shortest line: a soul food food truck. Patrick had what they called a jambalaya but which he said was more of a shrimp creole. I had pulled pork with mac and cheese. The portions were generous for fair food; Patrick couldn't finish his, and I ate all mine, later feeling like I had eaten too much. Then we got drinks at a drink booth. We had looked at the drink menu and made our decisions and then when we approached the counter we were immediately told that there was only one kind of cocktail left: cranberry vodka, which was not the drink either of us had wanted. We got cranberry vodkas. We visited or got close to all three of today's stages and spent most of our time at the main stage hosted by Persia and Yves St. Croissant and where we saw sets by Ms. Nzuri Soul (very good but a bit off-key at times) and Femme Deadly Venoms (excellent). This is the first time I can recall seeing advertisements on the video screens. The first one I saw was for, of course, a pharmacy. A woman from France spoke for about a minute about something. The set by The Stud with a special DJ set by Siobhan Aluvalot had finished one number—Rock Lobster (terrific)—and the power went out seemingly on the entire stage. All three of the big-screen displays were dark, microphones weren't working. A man working what seemed to be the sound board looked like he was searching for the problem and couldn't find it. Persia and Yves St. Croissant tried to hold it together for as long as they could, but we lost interest after a while and wandered off. We walked from Civic Center to the Castro and dined at Fable: san pell for Patrick, tap water for me. We shared a little gems salad with beets and green goddess dressing. Patrick had the roast chicken with black rice and grilled asparagus. I had halibut with butter beans. No dessert. $82.31 before a $16 tip.
Sun Jun 24, 2018
Slept in. Pre-breakfast by myself in the sun in the back yard: leftovers. Breakfast with Patrick just after our Good Eggs delivery arrived: leftovers. Patrick napped while I watched some of the parade on CBS KPIX via web stream piped to our Roku television via HDMI cable. He woke and we watched together for some time. Rode UberX with Patrick to 17th and Mission. Walked to dinner at El Techo de Lolinda. A short wait at around 4:30 pm—maybe 10 minutes. Margaritas el Techo, chips and salsa, three skewers (chicken, shrimp, and chorizo), quesadilla de pibil (pork with oaxaca cheese): $96.75 before a $17 tip. Alamo Drafthouse New Mission and Incredibles 2 in 2D with water, triple chocolate shake, vieux carre for Patrick, and popcorn: $29.68 before a $6 tip. Rode UberX home.
Mon Jun 25, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: egg and smoked cheddar on everything bagel with mixed lettuces, 8 ounces of orange juice, side of fresh blueberries and strawberries. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Handled an image request from Adam R. Encountered problems logging in to MyAccess, resolved it by whitelisting scripts in uBlock Origin. Walked to lunch at Godzila Sushi then walked back to work. Linkchecking work via Siteimprove. Rode UberX to SoMa. Met Patrick for couples counseling. We walked to the Castro and outside of the pet supply store we encountered JY who introduced us to his friend Ian. We stopped briefly to say hello. Patrick and I dined at Hamburger Mary's: mary size peach margarita for Patrick, mary size total top margarita for me. We shared chicken and waffles and barbara-q bacon burger with kobe beef medium. Water for both. $68.24 before a $14 tip. Service by Eric L was excellent. The drag queen hostess was welcoming when we arrived and sort of performed one number while introducing the staff but was briefly interrupted by new arrivals. It's hard to come here and not get a smile put on your face.
Tue Jun 26, 2018
Breakfast at home: Patrick made me a fruit salad. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. 1:1 with Eric. Launched Wells Lab. Performed post-launch tasks. Encountered a School of Pharmacy website that was down, contacted our contact person for it. Filed pcard paperwork. More prep work for the new 2018 and Beyond Curriculum Report html email for Alexa: list redo to remove WOS faculty. Updated the Academic Affairs page for Diana K. Lunch at Kaizu Eats: coconut shoyu ramen, which was delicious except I wish the chicken were more tender. Rode with Susie and James to the Presidio. Eric and Grant rode with Paula. Levi rode his bike. We met at Sessions at the Presidio for Paula's team farewell, snacking on kennebec fries (fried in what we were told was rice oil which I had never heard of) and charcuterie platters with our beverages. Afterwards we took a group photo by the nearby manmade lake with the help of a stranger. Our gifts to Paula: a framed word cloud of words that the group thought of when thinking of Paula, and a pair of Slack coasters. The group signed the back of the framed word cloud while we ate and drank. She loved the gifts. Her last day is Thursday. I rode Uber Pool Express home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs eggplant sandwiches with mozzarella, salsa verde, and arugula except he subbed turkey patties for the eggplant because I have an aversion to the purple vegetable. Hint watermelon to drink. Later I looked up rice oil in Wikipedia and was redirected to rice bran oil.
Wed Jun 27, 2018
Breakfast at home: leftovers. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Met (Melinda?) at the front desk in the Dean's Office Administration. Had a terrific chat with Brandon O aka Bo about Santa Cruz and ice cream and more. PDF title updates for Diana K for the Academic Affairs web page. Followup with Kylie B about new headshots for OEIS. Worked on two issues with Susie: the Kollman Lecture page build and the color boxes presentation template for Cindy. Bought a tuna sandwich from Ladle & Leaf: $8.20. Attended Getting the Most Out of UCSF Photography - Communicators Network Lunch & Learn by Kathleen H and Taryn I. Continued work on Kollman. Left for a dentist appointment. Errand: groceries from 828 Irving Market. Dinner to go from Perilla: four orders of pho ga. Rode UberX home: $10. Early dinner at home with Patrick: pho ga. Watched Hannah Gadsby: Nanette on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Wow! and Highly recommended! It's not a non-stop laughfest, and it's not your typical comedy set. This is a different kind of performance—one that everyone should see. (Turning subtitles on helps.) Brown bag followup via email with people who were unable to attend. Asana task followup. Reupload for the Powerpoint template from earlier today. To bed late.
Thu Jun 28, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: leftovers. Rode Uber Pool to UCSF Laurel Heights. 2018 and Beyond Curriculum Report html email followup tasks. Policy changes prep for Cindy. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Walked to an errand at the natural pharmacy, walked back to campus. No lunch. Attended the farewell party for Valerie at the Lange Room in Kalmanovitz Library. There was a lot of food and drink as well as party favors. I forgot to pick mine up before I left. Michael, Joe, (Clarence?), and Denetra said some words. Denetra brought a giant, red boom box for music. I chatted mostly with Marley, Stu H, Grant, James H, Eric, and Levi. More color boxes Powerpoint work for Susie: two standard templates instead of just one. Rode Muni and walked home. I prepared dinner for Patrick and me: Good Eggs sweet potato souvlaki with yogurt sauce, Hint blackberry. Afterwards we watched part of Coco on Netflix DVD. Dessert: one each Petit Pot vanilla bean pudding / pot de creme. Late snack: rainier cherries.
Fri Jun 29, 2018
Breakfast at home: leftover souvlaki, rainier cherries, water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Eric helped me resolve the problem of missing hero images by clearing Varnish on the QBC and grad programs websites. Set up an account for Alexa to train a student helper to do Mailchimp and Email on Acid work for them. Walked to lunch at b on the go (chicken grec as a salad) and walked back. Began mailing list updates. Styling work: tabbed interfaces. The team took a break today to celebrate someone's birthday with vanilla chocolate chip ice cream, strawberry ice cream, and ice cream cones. Errand: Stan's kitchenwares store. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs udon noodle salad with sweet peppers and tomatoes, Hint. Finished watching Coco on Netflix DVD with Patrick and rainier cherries.
Sat Jun 30, 2018
Slept in. Breakfast: a bowl of rainier cherries. Rode UberX to 15th Avenue House, spent the day with Drew and Romy. We had planned to picnic in Golden Gate Park but instead remained at the house mostly in the sun room with drinks and snacks. Quyen, Dave, and Jonathan arrived later. Then later Phil and Danny. Then later still Jesse. Then even later Brian Maxwell. Phil prepared dinner: a mix of different kinds of foods: bbq chicken, bbq pork ribs, vietnamese rice noodle salad, quinoa salad, bbq corn on the cob, black and white striped farfalle, and more. Jonathan brought a bottle of Brockman's gin to share. Dessert: fresh mango slices. Walked to an errand: Walgreens. Rode UberX home. Watched the grand finale of season 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race.