August 2018
Summary: Chris D visits and stays over; Crazy Rich Asians is released and is a hit; Patrick and I meet Stephen and Richard's dog named Theydon; shrimp etouffee dinner with Patrick, Kerry, and Mom Ryan; dinner at Regent Thai with Jaime and Matt; New Orleans Southern Decadence 2018 vacation with Andy, Chris, Jesse, Remi, and Patrick begins
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Wed Aug 1, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: brioche french toast with diced nectarine and banana with maple syrup, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Helped Levi troubleshoot a problem with Slack notifications appearing on the wrong of two displays. (Solution: in Display preferences drag the white menu bar to the display that you want to be primary.) Continued work resolving incorrect progression of heading levels in news markup. Asana task followup. Lunch at Kaiju Eats: K.O. ramen, hot tea, ice water. Created a letterhead template for Eric. Asana task followup. Began Mailchimp work to resolve various issues found in only Outlook for Windows. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs coconut tofu curry.
Thu Aug 2, 2018
Breakfast: one apple spice muffin, one banana, one apple. Rode Uber Pool Express to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Various styling fixes. Followup with Calpoison team about Google Analytics, Siteimprove, and their news categories request. More styling work. Errand: hardware store. Lunch to go from Noah's Bagels: hummus veg out, barbecue kettle chips. Ate at my desk with water. Completed html email work. Social media and content strategy meeting with Dana A and Judy D and the team. Judy demonstrated lots of great work on her part, and I think she is terrifics. Styling work. Rode Uber Pool Express home. Met Chris D at home after he parked near our place and walked to Ingleside and back. He's staying with us one night only. Dinner at home: Patxi's Pizza delivery: Favorite 12-inch (pepperoni, mushroom, and olive) deep dish, butter leaf lettuce salad with ranch dressing, sparkling water, red wine. While waiting we enjoyed playing chapter three in Rusty Lake Paradise. The pizza delivery was a disaster. One hour after ordering I received a phone call from a driver asking if my address was 1020 Irving Street. Several minutes later after my attempts at resolution the restaurant explained that they rely on third-party drivers and that they were unable to reach our delivery driver and that they will need to reorder my order. The reordered order would be sent by a different driver and would take another 45 minutes. The new delivery was received 45 minutes later. About 10 minutes later I received a phone call from the restaurant confirming the receipt, and I think they agreed to comp the meal. Installed a new kitchen sink swivel spray because the old one had stopped working properly due to a decomposed washer. Chris watched Star Trek: Discovery s1:e7 Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad, and I joined him partway through.
Fri Aug 3, 2018
Vacation day with Chris D. For both Chris and me I prepared Kona coffee with milk, a cheddar omelette with parsley, english muffin with butter, grapes, sliced nectarine. I also had 8 ounces of orange juice. Patrick stopped by briefly for a nap before going out again for day tasks. Chris and I bought discount tickets to Walt Disney Family Museum via Goldstar. We rode an unusually long Uber Pool ride downtown. The ride took an hour. We had two additional riders, one before we entered and another after the first rider alighted. The second rider had trouble finding the car because construction at the pickup location prevented the driver from stopping at the assigned corner, and the same construction also limited visibility for the rider to spot us. We weren't in a hurry. Chris and I alighted and walked a short distance to Autodesk Gallery where we spent about an hour or so browsing all the interesting exhibits. Afterwards we visited the Ferry Building Marketplace and decided on a light bite from El Porteño: empanadas, two each. Mine: shrimp and veggie. We walked to California and Drumm and rode a rather large PresidiGo bus for free to the Presidio. The ride took about 30 minutes and was relatively pleasant. We alighted and walked about four minutes to the Walt Disney Family Museum. With tickets from Goldstar the $25 admission price was instead $15 each. For Goldstar tickets you still need to stand in line to get printed tickets from the ticket desk. (For some other ticket vendors you can skip the line.) This was my second visit to WDFM. I loved it again. The downstairs exhibit featured Glen Keane, whom we learned is the son of Bil Keane of The Family Circus fame. Glen Keane is known for his masterful work on Disney films The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan, and Tangled. The exhibition is called Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane and runs March 8 to September 3, 2018. I bought a Hint cherry from the museum cafe and introduced Chris to it. We also browsed in the store and I bought a $30 t-shirt with a mostly faithful reproduction of the E ticket on the front (no watermark though). We had spent four hours at the museum. At 6 pm we rode UberX to Chow on Church to meet Patrick for dinner. Drinks: hard apple cider for Chris, (water)melon refresher for Patrick, lazy river for me. Entrees: Patrick and Chris each had a large thai chicken salad. I had a medium prawn salad. Total before tip: $74.08.
Sat Aug 4, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: crepes two ways: sweet: carmelized banana, peanut butter, chocolate caramel sauce; savory: scrambled eggs, sopresetta, cheddar, and parsley. 8 ounces of orange juice. Trimmed some overgrown weeds in the backyard. Began repairs to address a corroded locknut on the cold faucet of our kitchen sink, then gave up after some time while trying to cut a rusted nut with my Dremel and a cutting disk whilst lying on my back, realizing that the Dremel could easily fall on my face or slip in my hands to cut my arms, hands, or fingers. Too dangerous, even with safety goggles and thick gloves. No solution for now. Recharge Medical work: editing. Watched Victoria & Abdul on Netflix DVD with Patrick. We liked the film. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs veggie sausages with sweet peppers and onions, Hint watermelon. Patrick also had a glass of red wine. I continued playing Agent A on my iPad Pro after not having played it in a long time. I had gotten stuck on chapter three and had to look up the answer online, then proceeded with chapter four. Recharge Medical work: more editing, and I also made live a web page for PRP treatment. Late snack: grapes.
Sun Aug 5, 2018
Pre-breakfast: a nectarine. Breakfast at home: I prepared an omelette with diced tofu, white onion, parsley; leftover biscuit with Jake's Castro Kitchen anise fig jam, and a leftover piece of garlic bread, 8 ounces of orange juice. Cut my hair, showered. Patrick and I rode to the Castro. Light lunch at Republic: three tacos and magarita for Patrick, three flautas and hot tea for me. $40.24 before tip. We ran an errand then stopped at The Pilsner for a margarita each. We visited Beaux briefly, then visited The Castro Fountain for ice cream: two scoops: chocolate and strawberry tres leches. Patrick left for home. I remained in the Castro and met Kevin at Le Marais Bakery. We walked to Poesia and had beverages in the bar, water for me, pinot grigio for him. I rode UberX home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick had Grape Nuts with banana and milk. I had leftover falafel in pita with mixed salad greens and cabbage mix and yogurt with seasonings.
Mon Aug 6, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: yogurt with diced fresh fruit, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Various task followup, including followup for the Calpoison team about press releases and newsletters news categories. BTS people changes work. Lunch at Rigolo: a bowl of potato soup of the day and a side of steamed broccoli, water. Rode UberX to SoMa. Met Patrick for couples counseling. Rode UberX to the Castro. Dinner at Eureka with Patrick: Manhattan and fried chicken for him, Paloma and pot roast for me. The fried chicken now comes with black-eyed peas in addition to mashed potatoes with gravy and collard greens. The number of pieces of chicken also seems to have increased. For dessert we shared a chocolate pot de creme. Service by Alex was excellent but just a tad slow at the end. All the food and drink was delicious. Eureka is still one of our favorite places in the Castro. Rode UberX home.
Tue Aug 7, 2018
Breakfast: leftover yellow tofu curry with brown rice from a pouch. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. 1:1 with Eric. Followup on a redirect request for dbts with Mukesh. Followup with tasks and revised orgcharts following Ryan H's departure. Followup with Mukesh about a redirect request. Began making a Photoshop comp for microsites identity retheme. Errand: returned an item to the hardware store. Lunch at Vixi: hot earl gray tea, steak salad. $19.53 before a $3 tip. Met with Susie, Eric, and James H about people page planning. Finished the comp. Rode UberX home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs Korean mushroom lettuce cups with scallion-ginger sauce.
Wed Aug 8, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs, hash brown with ketchup, fruit salad with plum and banana, half english muffin with butter, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Task followup. Sprint standup. Built a new page for NMR (Mark Kelly biosketch for NIH). Troubleshot problems with my bluetooth wireless keyboard and trackpad which have been disconnecting lately. Today I reset the Bluetooth module. We'll see how it goes. Lots of styling work. Photoshop work: microsites identity retheme mockups. dbts redirect maintenance. Began making the websites microsite. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs sesame noodle salad with cabbage and carrots, Hint pineapple. Dessert: one hot chocolate chip cookie each, milk. Late snack: a few small pieces of different kinds of chocolate.
Thu Aug 9, 2018
Breakfast at home by myself: leftover tofu yellow curry with rice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Began creating content for the Websites website. Redirected a Jazzee request from Joel to Lisa. Lunch: leftovers from home. Met with Eric and Susie to discuss pcweb, experiential sites California map, and microsite comps. Siteimprove work: linkchecking. HTML email build in Mailchimp: 2021T photos on Facebook. Rode UberX to Divisidero corridor. Met Patrick for dinner at Ragazza: corbu for Patrick, nebbiolo red for me. Appetizer: arancini (risotto balls). Entree: we shared an heirloom tomato pizza with smoked bacon and arugula. Dessert: olive oil cake. Patrick had an espresso. $78.12 before a $14 tip. Rode UberX home. On the way we realized we had forgotten our two slices of leftover pizza. Oh, well. Recharge Medical work: blog post, html email campaign build and test, updated four PDF forms with small edits. Chatted with upstairs neighbor Jacob about loud music past 10 pm. Late snack: one small piece of chocolate.
Fri Aug 10, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: egg, cheddar, and roasted red bell pepper on english muffin, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. 2021T your photos are live html email work in Mailchimp. Helped Joel, Rick, and Zoraida with a problem in which some of them lost the ability to save as PDF from Outlook 2016. It seems you need an add-in enabled and a registry setting corrected. I set them up with info to take to UCSF IT. Lunch at b on the go: chicken grec sandwich, water: about $10. Scheduled the html email. Siteimprove work: linkchecking. Task followup. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs sheet pan ratatouille with eggs and chevre except Patrick used a casserole dish instead of a sheet pan and he didn't use chevre because I dislike goat cheese. Afterwards we played Rusty Lake Paradise and Agent A on my iPad Pro. Recently I discovered that the H key on my iPad Pro Magic Keyboard does not work. It's still under warranty, so I'll need to take it in sometime soon.
Sat Aug 11, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: cinnamon-pecan scones from Thorough Bread and Pastry, sliced apple, chocolate mint tea. Nap. Rode UberX with Patrick to Proposition Chicken on Market Street for lunch: fried chicken sandwiches for both, mine with kale subbed for spicy slaw. Root beer for Patrick, water for me. Afterwards we walked to Mr. S Leather and browsed but bought nothing. We walked to an errand on Market Street near Safeway, then continued toward the Castro. I left Patrick at The Pilsner Inn then continued to an eye doctor appointment, encountering Kerry on the way. At my eye doctor appointment I received new multifocal contact lenses that immediately seemed to work better than other multifocal lenses I have tried in the past. I returned to the Pilsner to retrieve Patrick, saying goodbye to Kerry. Patrick and I walked to the Castro, stopping at Rolo on Market where we bought camoflauge shorts for both of us because we liked the way they fit (but mine will still need some alteration). We dined at Poesia: happy hour appetizers and drinks: rustico, polpette, sbagliato, diablo. One roast chicken entree to share. Dessert: one tiramisu to share. Patrick also had an espresso. $71.61 before a $13 tip. Afterwards we stopped at several bars in the Castro before staying at Toad Hall where we had one round of cucumber-lime vodka cocktails. Rode UberX home. Today I contacted Apple Support about the H key on my iPad Pro Magic Keyboard not working. I was unable to reproduce the problem with it, so I might upgrade this year to a new iPad and sell this one.
Sun Aug 12, 2018
Slept in. Rode UberX to Paul's for brunch with a subset of The Group With No Name: Phil, Drew, Danny, Romy, Wayne, Paul. After a while Irene joined us, and we also met her friend Cynthia. Due to a miscommunication about the start time I arrived 30 minutes early, so I helped Paul prepare bread, cheese, and avocados for the brunch. We had avocado toast with nibbles: fresh fig, fresh blueberries, gouda cheese, and more. The entree was cheddar mushroom omelettes. Afterwards Wayne took off, then I rode with PDDR to Discount Builders Supply and Hardware where Phil needed to buy something. They dropped me at Market Street, and I walked a bit to the bus stop to ride the L bus home due to the tunnel construction closure. Snack: some generic Wheat Thins, water. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: tacos with fixins. Purchased more bags from Peak Design. Completed playing Agent A chapter 4 with a little help from a walkthrough found on the web.
Mon Aug 13, 2018
Breakfast at home: leftover ratatouille, water. Walked and rode Muni and the UCSF shuttle to a doctor appointment. UCSF shuttle to Laurel Heights. Spent the day building the School of Pharmacy Brand Identity microsite. Lunch at desk: leftover tofu noodle salad, water. Rode UberX to SoMa. Met Patrick for couples counseling. Rode UberX to the Castro. Dinner at Republic with Patrick: margarita and enchiladas de mole poblano for Patrick, hot tea and carnitas burrito with guac for me. $61.77 after a $10 tip. After dinner Patrick and I watched an episode of Joel McHale. Updated my medic alert cards.
Tue Aug 14, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: leftovers mixed with eggs, hot tea. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Completed staging the School brand identity microsite and sent it to Eric for review. Task followup. Completed staging the Websites microsite and sent it to Eric for review. Lunch at Rigolo: La Provencale crepe (chicken, mushroom, spinach), side of fries, water: about $15. Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship Training Program migration project work: this dormant request revived today, and I spent much of the day prepping planning documents and sending followup emails for it. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs spaghetti with cherry tomatoes and ricotta. Watched Tim's Vermeer on Netflix DVD with Patrick. This film was terrific. I recommend it to anyone interested in art, technology, or the creative process. Late snack: one small piece of dark chocolate with cherries, generic Wheat Thins with hummus.
Wed Aug 15, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with cheddar, shredded hash browns with ketchup, english muffin with butter, hot tea with milk and honey. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup with Eric via Google Hangouts. More CPT project followup. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Met with Joel and Rick about course agreements. Rick is leaving us in a month to move to Vancouver, B.C. Late lunch to go from Panda Express, ate in front of Kalmanovitz Library. Panda Bowl with chow mein and mushroom chicken. My fortune: Avoid unchallenging occupations—they waste your talents. Spent the rest of the day working from the library. Rode Uber Pool to the Mission. Met Patrick at Alamo Drafthouse for dinner and the opening night showing of Crazy Rich Asians. We had purchased our tickets a bit late and were stuck with seats in the fourth row at the far left of theatre 1. Not the best angle or sound, but we survived. I think due to the angle I had trouble hearing some words clearly. Despite these issues, we thoroughly enjoyed the film. Alamo Drafthouse had a special menu for the showing. I had an orchard road cocktail. Patrick had a singapore sling. We ordered chicken satay, dumplings, mahjong cookies, popcorn. For some strange reason we failed to receive the dumplings and the popcorn which were comped in the end. $48.28 after an $8 tip. (We didn't know what to tip because we didn't know who was at fault.) Our server was Camila.
Thu Aug 16, 2018
Breakfast at home: leftover egg and vegetables. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Spent the day initiating work on the microsites identity retheme project and following up on the CPT migration project. Lunch at Mo'z Cafe: Mo'z Burger with fries and ketchup, hot Earl Gray tea: $18.63 after tip. Late in the day I spent about 15 minutes editing a news story at Grant's request. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs peperonata with eggs and lentils, red wine, Hint. Dessert: blueberry boy bait ice cream in waffle cones.
Fri Aug 17, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: vegetarian sausage, scrambled eggs, half english muffin with butter, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. On the way the bus driver had to stop suddenly. I was sitting near the front in a seat that faced the aisle. I was thrown quite forcefully toward the front of the bus, which meant I ended up on my side but still on the seat. No one was hurt. I did not see why the sudden stop occurred. The driver asked if people were okay and everyone seemed fine. Sprint standup. Spent the day initiating work on the microsites identity retheme project and following up on the CPT migration project, orgchart revisions, and the bridge funding migration and edits. Lunch at Godzila: shrimp and veggie tempura bento, hot green tea. In the afternoon I also helped Grant build an RSVP form for the Gibson event. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs tandoori vegetables with cucumber-apple salad, red wine, Hint. Afterwards we watched The Standups: Dan Soder on Netflix instant watch. Then we played chapter five in Rusty Lake Paradise.
Sat Aug 18, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: yogurt with fixins. Washed mold from entry doors with water and borax. Rode UberX downtown with Patrick. Lunch at La Boulangerie (222 Sutter Street): combo (chicken arugula mini sandwich and cup of white bean soup) for Patrick, tuna cheddar melt tartine with seasonal greens for me, butterscotch cold brew and water to share. $31.32 after a $1.33 counter service tip. Shopped at Britex for reupholstery fabric for our 2000 Restoration Hardware Picasso chair whose seat cushion has been coming undone from use over the past few years. Alexandra was terrific at helping us, as was all the other staffpersons we encountered. At the register we enjoyed seeing a dog napping in a nearby dog bed. Rode UberX to the Castro. Patrick stopped to run an errand. We continued on foot to Urban Eyes where I ordered multifocal contact lenses; the ones I was given to try have been working fine. Three pairs of monthly lenses costs $85, and I had $50 credit remaining on my VSP insurance plan. Rode UberX home with Patrick. Removed some of the stuffing from my adjustable pillow from Nest EasyBreather Side Sleeper in an attempt to resolve constant neck and shoulder ache that seems to have developed over the past few months. Vacuumed the small bedroom. The internet stopped working. I did some troubleshooting and restarted our router and that seemed to fix it, though I think there were overlapping problems. Rode UberX with Patrick to Noe Valley. Dinner at Lupa Trattoria: nebbiolo for Patrick, water for me. We shared scamorza ai funghi (melted smoked mozzarella with mix sauteed mushrooms) and an order of ravioli alla modenese (homemade ravioli filled with ricotta cheese and spinach with fried garlic chips in a brown butter and sage sauce). Dessert: three flavors of gelato: chocolate, salted caramel, pistachio. $60.22 before a $12 tip. Rode UberX to Church Street near 29th, visited Stephen G. Met Richard and Theydon. Theydon, a young puppy, is brand new to the household, handsome, and super chill. He and Patrick got along great. With me he was neutral most of the time but with some low growling and one loud bark near the end. We parted on good terms, though. Richard left partway through our visit to attend a dance party. We all talked about dance parties, vodka, wine, dogs, childhood pets, Twin Peaks, Doctor Who, YouTube, nightclubs, Atlantis cruises, Thailand villas, recent vacations, Broadway shows, reality television, books, libraries, and more. Patrick and I drank a chilled wine we had brought; Stephen drank from the in-house selection. We had a great time visiting. Rode UberX home. Recently Notational Velocity stopped updating yet I can still successfully log in to simplenote.com with the same credentials. I found a Github issue queue where someone else reported the same problem, so I added a comment to that report. Hopefully the problem will be resolved soon.
Sun Aug 19, 2018
Last night's change in pillow stuffing seems to have helped. Breakfast: leftover spicy spaghetti, chai. Rode UberX to Mollie Stones on 18th Street then walked around the Castro deciding where to eat lunch, ended up at Tacos Club: horchata and grande chicken taco for Patrick, water and grilled prawns taco for me. Walked to an errand near Safeway then stopped at the Pilsner Inn for a bit where we encountered Kerry and said hello. Outside of Verve we encountered and briefly chatted with Joseph, who was just leaving 24 Hour Fitness. We walked to Papi Rico but decided to not stay. Coffee at Philz, where we saw Chad S ordering two bacon burritos to go. Shopped at Best in Show; Patrick bought a t-shirt and we bought some gifts. Stopped at Beaux but didn't go in. Continued to Lookout where we entered for a $2 each cover supporting a gay frisbee league. Drinks and jello shots. Rode UberX home with Patrick. Dinner at home with Patrick: sous vide chicken, side of marinated beets. Afterwards we played chapter seven in Rusty Lake Paradise.
Mon Aug 20, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with diced zucchini, and for me only a half of an english muffin with butter and orange juice. Hot water for Patrick. The Notational Velocity problem from two days ago is now resolved; I made no changes to my configuration. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Task followup. Styling work: people pages following tabs work James had completed. Chatted with Eric about microsites identity retheme comps. Helped Katherine K via WebEx with editing a page. Listserv management work. More task followup. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Late lunch from Panda Express: veggie spring rolls with dipping sauce. My fortune: Any troubles you have will pass shortly. Worked in the library. Rode UberX to SoMa. Met Patrick for couples counseling. Rode UberX to dinner at Hi Tops: grilled chicken burger with avocado and fries and pint of Stella for Patrick, all-american burger (medium) with fries and boom dizzle cocktail (hendricks gin, rosemary syrup, blood orange, orange flower water, ginger beer, lime) for me. Rode UberX home.
Tue Aug 21, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: yogurt with fixins, green tea. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Learned upon walking in that I mistakenly broke two of our websites with commits I made on Thursday, spent about half the day working with James and Eric to fix it. No lunch. Also worked on orgcharts for BTS, PC, and Education as well as other task followup. Worked late. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: breaded and deep-fried wild rock cod, sweet and savory plum salad. Recently I ordered new Peak Design bags because the medium-sized bag I had was a poor design. Today I brought home and unpacked the Sling 5L (Tan) and spent some time adjusting the strap lengths and practicing with the quick adjuster feature on the strap. I decided that I like it at its tightest high on my back.
Wed Aug 22, 2018
Breakfast at home: leftovers, water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Styling work: microsites identity retheme, people tabs. Lunch at b patisserie: turkey club tartine, hot earl gray tea. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: beef stew with riced cauliflower, dinner roll. Today I brought home and unpacked a Peak Design Sling 10L (Charcoal).
Thu Aug 23, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs, hash browns, toast with butter. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Styling work: people tabs. Lunch at Rigolo: turkey sandwich with fries, water. Visited the UCSF Laurel Heights Annex for the first time ever to see furniture that we'll be getting after our move to Block 33 at Mission Bay in a year or so. More styling work and check-in with James about people views. Various task followup. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick, Kerry, and Mom Ryan: shrimp etouffee with steamed white rice. Dessert: oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate chip cookies. Today I brought home a Peak Design Everyday Messenger 13.
Fri Aug 24, 2018
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Breakfast from The View Cafe: croissandwich with egg, cheddar, and bacon; water. Sprint standup. Sent notice to affected customers about the Monday evening and Tuesday morning outage for pharm and cpcs. Edited the CCB research areas page for Julia M because of complexity. Styling work: people views. Met with Eric about microsites identity retheme comps. Late lunch: leftovers from last night. Styling work: people views. Rode UberX to the Outer Mission. Matt and Jaime are in town visiting for a week. Tonight is their last night before heading home. Patrick and I met them at Outer Orbit on their opening day. The food, drink, and pinball looked great, but it was too crowded and noisy for us. We tried to be seated at Blue Plate, Emmy's Spaghetti Shack, The Front Porch, all with waits longer than we wanted. We walked to 30th and Church Streets. Pomelo was closed (on a Friday night?!). We ended up at Regent Thai (1700 Church Street), dining family-style: Thai fresh egg rolls (rice paper rolls stuffed with pork, egg, tofu and cucumber, topped with crab meat served with sweet and sour tamarind sauce), tod mun (deep-fried fish cakes and green beans served with cucumber salad and ground peanuts), panaeng gung (shrimp with panaeng curry, coconut milk, mushrooms, zucchini, carrots, bell pepper and sweet basil), moo yang (marinated pork served with sweet and sour sauce), tofu pad se-eiw (stir-fried wide noodles with soy sauce, broccoli, egg), brown rice, white rice, hot tea for Patrick and Frank, and we also shared a bottle of red wine. Afterwards we walked to Noeteca where we considered dessert and had another round of drinks (beer for Jaime and Patrick, wine for Matt, and a Chateau Grillon sauterne dessert wine for me). We all shared an UberX home, Matt and Jaime continuing to Holly's place. It was great to catch up with them.
Sat Aug 25, 2018
Pre-breakfast: a plum. Breakfast at home with Patrick: fish tacos from leftovers. Home improvement and house chores: cleaned marks off the wall in the small bedroom with Goo Gone, orchid maintenance, vacuumed. Cut my hair, showered. Covered the logos on our Kleenex box with decorative stickers. Unpacked my new Peak Design Everyday Messenger 13. Recently I purchased and began using a set of UV-C lamps that insert into shoes to sterilize them. Today I continued sterilizing my shoe and sandal collection. Each session is 15 minutes, so it's going to take some time. Nap with Patrick. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover beef stew with rice and naan. Completed chapter 6 in Rusty Lake Paradise with Patrick.
Sun Aug 26, 2018
Brunch at home: scrambled eggs with herbes de provence and cheddar, english muffin with butter, four-potato hash browns. Spent five hours altering a pair of camoflauge shorts. It was almost a ruined project at times because of many mistakes I made, but it turned out fine enough. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs mushroom sandwichs with asian slaw, red wine, Hint. Dessert: apple-cinnamon clafoutis with blueberry boy bait ice cream. Unloaded photos from my iPhone X.
Mon Aug 27, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: oven-fresh crioissants from frozen; yogurt with blueberries, pecans, and cinnamon. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Styling work: people views. Lunch to go from Beautifull!: chicken caesar wrap, ate in the UCSF Laurel Heights courtyard. UFD retro meeting. Siteimprove work: linkchecking and other fixes. Dinner at Takara Sushi with Kevin. Rode UberX home.
Tue Aug 28, 2018
Rode UberX to UCSF Laurel Heights. 1:1 with Eric. Breakfast from The View Cafe: breakfast sandwich with egg and cheese, water. Spent some time today reading about the problems encountered after people moved in to Mission Hall a few years ago in anticipation of what's to come with our team's move to Mission Bay in 2019-2020. Task followup. Siteimprove work: linkchecking. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Lunch at My Father's Kitchen: five-spice chicken with rice and fish sauce, thai iced tea. Styling work: people views. Task followup. Posted a web accessibility to the Siteimprove community forum: how best to make very technical illustrations accessible? Sign template master work in PowerPoint for Julie E. TRANSPERS restructure and edits work for Michael D (and tshooting failing redirects in Drupal 7 with Domain Access—nothing seems to work). Rode Uber Pool Express home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs late summer carbonara with sweet corn and padron peppers (except the meal was vegetarian), Hint cherry.
Wed Aug 29, 2018
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Resolved TRANSPERS redirect issues to the extent possible. Worked with Nicole F and Terran O to implement a new feature for a Biophysics page for Nicole. Lunch at Rigolo: mushroom burger with fries and pickle slice, water. Styling work: microsites identity retheme. Asana task organization. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Good Eggs Thai panang tofu curry with brown jasmine rice, red wine, Hint.
Thu Aug 30, 2018
Breakfast at home with Patrick: Patrick had two slices of brioche toast with butter, water. I had leftover strozzapreti with corn and a slice of brioche toast with butter, water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Parked on California Street I saw a small motorhome that had a large piece of lumber where the front bumper is supposed to be. Sprint standup. Styling work, partly with James H: people listings. Eric and I learned about the css attribute called pointer-events today via the knowledgeable James. Lunch at desk: leftover tofu curry with brown rice from a pouch. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Stopped at the OSACA to say goodbye to Rick T who is leaving us to move to Vancouver BC. Chatted with Joel about Las Vegas. Chatted with Lucia about anniversaries and evening snacks and light meals (e.g., popsicles?!). Walked and rode Muni home. Began packing for a trip. Dinner with Patrick at Sushi Raw (415-681-8866, 901 Taraval Street): seaweed salad, various rolls, inari nigiri, hot green tea, small bottle of hot sake. $50.24 before an $8 tip. Along the way we saw a Rolls Royce that was a bright blue. Patrick says it was cerulean blue. It was quite an unusual color choice, startling to see. Finished packing for a trip.
Fri Aug 31, 2018
New Orleans Southern Decadence 2018 vacation begins, day 1 of 8. This is my third year in a row and Patrick's second year in a row going to Southern Decadence. Sam took Patrick and me to SFO for a 10:35 am Alaska Airlines flight to New Orleans. We breakfasted at Napa Farms Market on a shared hot ham, egg, and cheese sandwich, Pop Chai Spice Almond Milk for Patrick, Hint cucumber for me. We met Chris G and Andy T at the gate. The Alaska Airlines flight turned out to be a Virgin America plane since Alaska recently completed a buyout of Virgin. On the flight we met and chatted at length with the woman in the window seat. Her name is Alissa and we were charmed and humored by her dry wit, honesty, and interesting personality. We talked about television, cooking, food, Chopped, children, little homes, cohabitating with others, speaking accents, neighbors and noise, Millennials, and more. We gave her our email addresses and hope that she contacts us. For a meal we ordered for Patrick a protein pack with hummus and pita and for me a turkey artichoke baguette with avocado aioli. We realized how funny it is that free alcoholic beverages are provided to the people who sit in the exit row and must assist during an emergency. For part of the flight I watched and enjoyed again the end of Blade Runner: 2049 and the start of Gravity. Andy offered to get the Lyft XL ride into town because Lyft offered him $10 off his next 10 rides. We are staying at a Sonder located in Faubourg Marigny. Chris had told us that Sonder is like Airbnb but curated. Remi and Jesse had arrived earlier and we met them at the Sonder location. Walked to dinner at Effervescence (1036 N. Rampart Street) with Patrick, Chris, and Andy. We shared West Indies crab salad, snapper aji amarillo ceviche, fried softshell crab, avocado lettuce cups, and grilled levain toast. Drinks: You Put The Wine In The Coconut for Frank, Laissez Day for Andy, Provencal Bubble Bath each for Patrick and Chris. Late at night I happened to wake around 3:00 am and enjoyed hearing a passing rainstorm begin and end.