January 2019
Summary: SF Sketchfest: Margaret Cho, Nico Santos, Superstore, Julie Klausner, and Best of Sacramento comedians; Dinner with Kerry and Mom Ryan; Progressive Dinner: Swirl, Poesia, Canela, Finn Town; Branford Marsalis Quartet; ShowStoppers: An Evening With Garland & Minnelli starring Logan Walker; Akemi's basketball game
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Tue Jan 1, 2019
Breakfast at home: I had leftovers with hot water, Patrick had cereal with milk. Housecleaning. We had previously planned to attend the polar bear skate and a house party today but ended up making neither. Nap with Patrick. In the afternoon we attempted to watch Lady Bird on Netflix DVD but the DVD did not play correctly in two different players, and we gave up after a few minutes. Watched Comedians of the World: Neal Brennan on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Dinner at home with Patrick: andouille and ham hock red beans with steamed white rice, garlic bread. Afterwards we watched various clips on YouTube.
Wed Jan 2, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with creme fraiche, half sausage, hash browns, hot earl gray tea. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Styling work. Helped Grant with an edit to a CERSI event page. Followup with PCI compliance. Prepped and coded an MAK Seed Award reminder html email for Shalimar and the new year html email for Susie. Walked and rode Muni home. Started leaving my MacBook Pro locked at work instead of carrying it everywhere due to weight. Dinner at home with Patrick: farfalle with chicken, sparkling water, white wine. Post-dinner drink: Alley 6 peach liqueur with whipped cream vodka on the rocks. Began playing Homo Machina for iOS on my iPad Pro with Patrick. After a few minutes, we like its nice graphics and animation but find it a bit slow and too educational. We'll continue playing it, though.
Thu Jan 3, 2019
Breakfast at home: I prepared two eggs over easy with Spice Ace herbes de provence, hash browns, toast with butter, hot water. Walked and rode Muni to Laurel Village. On the bus an older Chinese woman watched a Chinese opera at full volume on her phone. It was annoying, but no one said anything to her about it. Grocery errand before work. Sprint standup. Siteimprove followup. Helped Liana with a question about the Edit taxo links in Drupal. Investigated email bounce notices following our Mailchimp campaigns for Karen G and Shalimar, spending a lot of time in online chat with Mailchimp support. Lunch at desk: leftovers. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Installed the T-Mobile Name ID app which claims to block spam phone calls.
Fri Jan 4, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: chocolate croissant and croissant, 8 ounces of orange juice, 8 ounces of hot earl gray tea. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Installed BetterTouchTool and began using it, starting with mapping a gesture to Command+Tab. Experimented with Apple's Dictation accessibilty feature. Siteimprove work. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Walked to lunch in the Fillmore. Lots of places were crowded. I ended up at Woodhouse Fish Company and had fish tacos with hot water and cold water: $20.27 before a $4 tip. Service by Sarah D was excellent. Stopped at Spice Ace for Jordanian za'atar. More Siteimprove work. Errand at Bryan's grocery. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner with Patrick, Kerry, Mom Ryan: chicken in hoisin sauce, baby bok choy with garlic. Dessert: pumpkin pie with whipped cream from a can. Returned to using Sleep Cycle because the Bedtime alarm built in to iOS Clock didn't let me choose my own song track to which to wake, and I didn't like any of its alarms. Lost all my sleep quality history.
Sat Jan 5, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: banana-yogurt pancakes, side of large half sausage, green tea. Installed and configured SpamSieve on the entertainment server MacBook Air—an arduous process partly because of needing to manually create mail folders and a rule, and partly because I have multiple email accounts (doesn't everyone?), and partly because I needed the remote train feature, but I think it's working now. After running some tests, I reset the corpus because I wasn't sure if I had done the initial training correctly. Organized old mail, creating all new filter rules. Organized and weeded old Google Chrome bookmarks. Watched Lady Bird on Netflix DVD with Patrick. This disc had similar problems to the last copy of this film Netflix gave us. It failed to play at all in the macOS DVD Player application. I worked around the problem in VLC, but I don't know exactly how except for just trying different things. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick prepared shaking beef with watercress over steamed white rice, Hint. Dessert: leftover pumpkin pie with whipped cream from a can. More organizing old email.
Sun Jan 6, 2019
Breakfast at home: an apple. Sam, Patrick, and I saw Bumblebee at Cinemark Century 20 Daly City with hot dogs, popcorn, peanut M&Ms, and soda. The quality of this theatre has gone downhill a lot in recent years. The escalator is disgustingly dirty and sticky, the theatre floor was a lot stickier than normal with old foodstuff, the preshow video did not work while the audio played, the popcorn was not hot and seemed slightly stale, Patrick didn't like the texture of the hot dog which he said tasted old (but I thought it was fine), Sam said his Diet Coke tasted strange like it didn't have the proper mixture of components. The bathroom was reasonably clean but smelled poorly. At my request, Sam reported the video problem and about 15 minutes later it was resolved. It seemed as though someone forgot to remove a lens cap. We all decided it was the last time we would visit this theatre. The film was good—not great and not terrible. Afterwards Sam dropped Patrick and me at home. Housecleaning. Cut my hair, showered. Mended my silver-gray jacket which had developed another hole in the arm. Dinner at home with Patrick: pizza with prepared crust, Hint. Dessert: I had pumpkin pie with whipped cream and a cocktail called orgasm.
Mon Jan 7, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover baby bok chow with steamed rice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. No in-person standup. Styling work: external link in PharmD hero for Eric. Followup with Lawrence L about the canceled CERSI event. Lunch at desk: leftover pizza, water. Siteimprove work. Rode Uber Pool to the Mission. Met Patrick for couples counseling. Rode UberX to the Castro. Dinner at Izakaya Sushi Ran (415-655-3738, 2223 Market Street) with Patrick: happy hour sake, hot, for both; miso soup for both; hamachi (yellowtail) sashimi; ebi tempura roll; This One Time At Band Camp cocktail (bourbon, vermouth, sherry, charred marshmallow) for Patrick; Trickster God cocktail (rums, chartreuse, pineapple, lemon) for me; tori (tempura chicken with shiso and chipotle tartar sauce); sata andagi (fried doughnuts). Izakaya Sushi Ran has been open about three weeks, we were told. We asked our server about the happy hour menu, and she told us that happy hour menu items were available in the bar and that we could order that at the bar, pay there, and then bring it to our table. We thought that was weird since in most other restaurants you can order happy hour anything from a dining table and have it delivered to you and placed on your dining check. Consequently for the first 15 minutes or so I was repeatedly getting up from my seat and going to the bar, once to begin placing the order, once to return to Patrick with a question: hot or cold sake?, again to place the order (hot), then back to our dining table to wait for the order to be prepared, then again to pick up and pay for the order only to find that the bartender (contrary to the instructions were were given) was just then delivering our drink order to our table, so I returned to the table. We received the drink order. The bartender left. A minute later I remembered that I was supposed to pay at the bar, so I returned to the bar and was told by the bartender who delivered it that (contrary to the instructions we were given) he had moved the order to our dining check. When our miso soup arrived we were pleased to find sizeable shiitake mushroom slices within, which we don't usually see in miso soup. The hamachi sashimi was fresh with perfect color, flavor, and texture. The ebi tempura roll was interesting for its inclusion of asparagus. The sake wasn't enough for us, so we ordered cocktails at this point, and then there was an unusually long wait before the tori arrived. At first I thought that doing tempura in two dishes was overdoing it, but I'm glad we did because the tempura ebi wrapped in a sushi roll doesn't permit one to fully appreciate the light perfection of the batter which we tasted with the tempura chicken, which was also moist and tender inside. The cocktails arrived shortly after the tori arrived. We enjoyed the sake and the cocktails, but we didn't notice any of the advertised charred marshmallow in Patrick's cocktail. At least one of our dishes was decorated with a full green shiso leaf—a nice touch. Service was slightly better than good. When Patrick left the table for the restroom a staffmember folded his napkin in the fine dining style. $121.90 before a $20 tip. Clearly a fine effort but with some wrinkles to iron. Rode UberX home.
Tue Jan 8, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with sharp white cheddar, toast with butter, half large sausage, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. 1:1 with Eric. We agreed to launch the microsites identity retheme project and discussed the deploy details with James. Siteimprove work. Lunch at Rigolo: La Louisiane crepe, side of fries, water from my water bottle. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Attended the outreach video preview. Post-preview chat with Eric, Levi, and Grant in the Nursing Building lounge. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Y&Y Vietnamese Cuisine via Seamless: two thai iced teas, two shrimp rolls, one order of grilled pork with lemongrass, steamed white rice. This 6:42 pm order was delivered in 34 minutes and mysteriously included extra things we didn't order: dry rice wrappers and a bundle of lettuce, bean sprouts, mint, and grated carrot for making shrimp rolls. It could very well be that it was all correct and that we misunderstood how to use the seemingly extra ingredients. After dinner, Patrick made an Old Fashioned for himself, and I had just a sip. Today I began using a wheeled backpack to replace the Peak Design Everyday Messenger bag I have used for years in an effort to mitigate or resolve health issues potentially caused by carrying 11-plus pounds on my shoulder or in my hand. I still love Peak Design products, but they don't make anything that rolls. The rolling backpack is made by a company called Gladiador, and I chose it because it was the thinnest wheeled backpack I could find. Almost everything else seemed to be 8 or more inches in depth whereas this one was only 6.5 inches. The only other one I could find that was 6.5 inches or thinner seemed to be of poorer quality or lower trust based primarily on presentation. I spent about 15 minutes obscuring the ten occurrences of the Gladiador logo from the bag's exterior: two on each of four zipper pulls; one at front, top, center of the backpack; and the last one on the extension arm. To do this I used silver metallic tape for one on the extension arm and black electrical tape for the rest. There are also about a hundred occurrences of the logo inside the bag because the interior lining has the logo printed on it in a repeated pattern, but I didn't bother obscuring those because I couldn't figure out an easy and effective way that wouldn't uglify or ruin the whole thing. Aside from these logo issues, the backpack so far seems fairly well constructed. The zippers didn't run as smoothly as I had hoped, so I rubbed them with a small bar of paraffin, and they run more smoothly now. If there were a number-of-logos contest between this Gladiador backpack and a Miele vacuum cleaner, I'm not sure which would win. Late snack: leftovers from dinner. Encountered and resolved the duplicate mount point problem on my MacBook Pro. Again. To bed late.
Wed Jan 9, 2019
Breakfast at New Taraval Cafe with Patrick: coffee and breakfast special for Patrick, hot english breakfast tea and orange juice and breakfast special (scrambled, sausage, rye, with potatoes) for me. About $24 before a $5 tip. Patrick went home. I walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Attempted to visit Stu H in his office, but he was on a call. Virtual standup. Followup with James about our test sites losing their styling again. Followup with Stu by telephone about his concerns about tomorrow's microsites retheme launch. Mailing list imports. Siteimprove work. Lunch at the JCC: grilled cheese with fries and tomato soup, water from my water bottle: $13.74. Finalized mailing list imports, then delivered the html email new year greeting for Susie and Eric. Updated custom error pages. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Orthoticist appointment. Walked to UCSF Laurel Heights. More Siteimprove work. Walked and rode Muni home.
Thu Jan 10, 2019
Microsites identity retheme followup tasks all day. Lunch at Presidio Pizza Company: sausage and pepperoni slice, romaine and kale salad, water. Back-to-back doctor appointments. Walked and rode Muni downtown. Dinner at Colibri (415-440-2737, 438 Geary Street, San Francisco, California, USA) with Patrick. Drinks: el tesoro silver margarita for Patrick, margarita avion for me. We shared: sopes surtidos, pechuga huitlacoche, arroz mexicano. Dessert: churros rellenos (cajeta caramel cream, dulce de leche ice cream), mexican coffee (coffee, tequila, kahlua) for Patrick, 1921 tequila crema for me. We were seated but shortly after sitting we realized we needed to move because the table was positioned exactly so that one person was sitting on the banquette cleavage. The host accommodated our request to move, but he wasn't very friendly about it. Then we realized that we were handed only one drink menu. It was a very long menu, and it's tedious to share. We asked for a second drink menu after our waiter introduced himself, and he brought one right away. We also learned that happy hour menu items were available only in the bar. Patrick thought the sopes were a little dry, but I thought they were fine. We received warm tortillas and a trio of salsas, but we were confused about whether they were to be eaten with a forthcoming dish or alone. We ended up eating them alone. Patrick particularly liked the pechuga and the dulce de leche ice cream. Service by Luis was good. $118.13 before a $18 tip. Afterwards we attended the opening show of SF Sketchfest 2019 at Marines' Memorial Theatre (609 Sutter Street), a tribute to Margaret Cho in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres. The show was great. She spilled the tea about a number of celebrities, including Joan Rivers and John Travolta. Afterwards we rode Lyft home.
Fri Jan 11, 2019
Walked to breakfast by myself at Antigua Cafe: croissant breakfast sandwich with bacon, water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Microsites identity retheme followup tasks. Mailchimp work: COSA Winter Auction announcement. Lunch from The View Cafe: small fried rice, water from my water bottle. Walked and rode Muni home. Patrick had been napping, and I woke him. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken breast sandwich, beet-colored tortilla chips. Rode Lyft downtown with Patrick to attend Nico Santos doing standup as part of SF Sketchfest at Marine's Memorial Hall. I got a red wine, Patrick got a beer. The cups were plastic with lids. I realized after we had returned to our seats that I preferred having a straw because the opening of the lid was too awkward for me. Irene Tu and Casey Ley opened and were both terrific. It was great to see Nico doing standup again—very funny. Zeke sat in the row behind us, and Nico's mom was also elsewhere in the theatre. Nico told stories about J Lo and Angelina Jolie. After the show ended we approached the stage and said hello to Nico briefly. We encountered Nina, Scott, Adrian, and Chris and chatted briefly. Nico hung out in the lobby for a while greeting friends and fans. It was a little too hectic for us and we were tired so we took off to get a bite at Katana-Ya: chicken karaage ramen with miso and egg for Patrick, veggie ramen with meat broth for me. $36.78 before a $8 tip. A fun night. Rode Lyft home.
Sat Jan 12, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: I prepared spanish rice, scrambled eggs with cream and mexican cheeses, warm corn tortillas. 8 ounces of orange juice. House chores. Recharge Medical work in Google Tag Manager, finally got it working. Did prep work for mailing a gift. Realized that since SpamSieve wasn't moving messages out of the TrainGood and TrainSpam folders that I probably had not completed the setup correctly as I had thought. Lunch: leftover ramen from last night. Found the SpamSieve Apple Mail remote training script, edited it in Sublime Text 2, compiled it in Script Editor, and installed it, and now the messages have been moved out of those folders as expected. This brought my corpus spam messages up to 69%, which I think is better than the 0% I had before. Did some vacation research. Nap then shower. Rode UberX with Patrick to the Castro. Dinner at Gyro Xpress with Patrick: we each had the chicken gyros plate, sparkling water for Patrick, Snapple mango madness for me. Afterwards we got in line for Tribute to Superstore, part of SF Sketchfest 2019, waiting about 40 minutes in the cold outside of Hot Cookie. At the door our ticket-taker's phone frustratingly wouldn't connect, wasting lots of time while we worried about getting bad seats. (This year ticketing was handled by Box Cubed and Agile Ticketing Solutions.) In attendance: the cast plus Justin Spitzer and one of the producers whose name I didn't catch plus unbilled on this event was Johnny Pemberton (Bo). The cast read the script of the Superstore pilot from 2015. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. Afterwards they did Q&A. One woman asked if Amy's character could use a nametag that had her middle name on it, and America Ferrera agreed: "Done!" They briefly invited two people who had dressed up in Cloud 9 costumes to come to the front of the stage to much applause and laughter. Rode UberX home.
Sun Jan 13, 2019
Breakfast: an apple. Lots of house chores. Lunch at King of Thai Noodle: steamed chicken with rice, thai iced tea. Jacket shopping by myself. Rode Uber Pool Express to Fjällräven. Walked and rode Muni to REI. Walked to Sports Basement. Walked and rode Muni home. Failed again trying to find a jacket to replace my silver-gray jacket from Zara Boys that meets my requirements. Notably, hoods that roll into the collar have mostly fallen out of fashion, and I don't know why. Some still exist, but so far I have been finding that those don't meet my other requirements. Dinner at home with Patrick: noodle miso soup with vegetables. I made a simple daiquiri for us to drink along with Hint. Recently I learned that Apple AirDrop from an iOS device to a Mac fails to preserve a photo's date created whereas if you instead import the photo by USB-to-Lightning cable and Image Capture then the date created is preserved. This question was answered poorly or incorrectly or incompletely (depending on how you look at it) by an experienced person in an Apple community forum. Also recently I learned by trial and error how to resolve a duplicate mount point problem on a Mac. When this happens a drive name appears in /Volumes with -1 or -2 or -3 and so forth. In Terminal: Step 1: cd /Volumes . Step 2: sudo umount [drivename]* . A -1 or -2 or -3 drive might remain. Step 3: df. Step 4: check that the drive name no longer appears anywhere in the df result. If so: Step 5: sudo rm -rf [drivename]* should be safe to do. Step 6: remount the problematic drive as you normally would. For me this has consistently resolved the problem without needing to restart the Mac. If this still doesn't resolve the problem, I suggest restarting and checking for the problem. If the problem remains, repeat the steps again, and see if it resolves it that time. Optionally you can run df before step 2 to confirm that any mounted drive was removed in step 5. Somewhere in my outing today I lost my Lightning-to-3.5mm-jack adapter for connecting my headphones to my iPhone.
Mon Jan 14, 2019
Breakfast at home: dinner leftovers. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Chatted with Eric and James about IPE and Panels and Panelizer issues. Styling and Siteimprove work all day. Lunch at Starbucks: chicken manchego sandwich, sweet potato chips, tall chai tea latte. Errands in Laurel Village: kitchen supply store, hardware store, office supply store. Rode Lyft to the Mission. Met Patrick for couples counseling. Rode UberX with Patrick to dinner at Jasmine Garden: we each had vermicelli noodles with bbq pork, Patrick's with spicy fish sauce, mine with non-spicy fish sauce. Vietnamese hot coffee for Patrick, hot water for me. $31.47 before a $5 tip. Drinks at our first visit to Last Rites (718 14th Street), which had opened in June 2018. No-glass Last Rites ($14) for Patrick, Last Rites mai tai ($12) for me. $28.21 before a $5.25 tip. Our receipt said that our server's name was Serve R. Stepping into Last Rites is like a nighttime visit to a plane crash site on a tropical island. The lighting is so dark that it's difficult to get good photos of anything without flash. The main bar was created from part of an airplane fuselage, seating uses portions of old airplane seats, and an airplane door jammed in the walls at one corner serves as an odd kind of table. Skulls feature prominently in the decor, implying sacrificial rituals to contrast with the alcoholic rituals of the present natives. On this Monday evening the space was not crowded, and we found seats we liked pretty quickly. After a few minutes of wondering whether we needed to order at the bar, a cocktail waitron arrived with menus and returned a few minutes later to take our order. The menu is an impressive masterpiece of graphic design, and probably relatively costly to produce, with what seemed to be a custom die cut along the bottom edge. The paper has a fine stiffness, texture, and (I think) gloss. Styled as a handwritten form, it has a fascinating level of verisimilitude and attention to detail. The Last Rites cocktail ($14) includes a smoldering cinnamon stick and seems to be a better bang for your buck than the mai tai ($12), which includes a sugar cane spear and seemed to disappear more quickly and isn't as potent. The decor has many excellent details best seen in person and is easily Disney quality, and I liked that there seemed to be many hooks under tables to keep your stuff off the floors and seats. My only complaint: no drink menu on the website. (If you search Google for [last rites menu scribd] you might find an excellent reproduction of a menu that is no longer current.) Rode Lyft home. After bed, I woke around midnight and couldn't continue sleeping, so I left bed, restarted the entertainment server MacBook Air which had displayed an unusually high memory pressure in Activity Monitor, then troubleshot minor issues with email, spam, filters, and SpamSieve. Patrick woke a few hours later. I wrote in my journal and had a small meal of ginger tisane with sugar and steak and potato canned soup before returning to bed for a few more hours.
Tue Jan 15, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs with parmesan, wheat toast with butter, long half sausage, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. 1:1 with Eric. Various task followup all day. Lunch at Starbucks: grilled cheese sandwich, water no ice. Grocery errands. Styling work: homepage panel clears investigation. At work I started storing some kinds of foods so that I can have smaller meals at lunch and snacks if needed. I brought a popcorn tin from home to store them. Eric has one at work and says the rodents cannot enter it. Sounds good to me. Walked and rode Muni home. Finished reading How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen. Dinner at home with Patrick, Kerry, and Mom Ryan: German beef goulash with creamy polenta, sourdough bread, Hint watermelon, beer. Late meal: chicken noodle soup from a can.
Wed Jan 16, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: A Tale of Two Toasts: (1) sourdough with labneh, Jordanian za'atar, and Persian cucumber; (2) sourdough with labneh-apricot-fig spread, slivered almonds, and ginger-syrup-infused satsuma and mint chiffonade. Mint tisane. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Siteimprove linkchecking. Sprint standup. Followup with Lawrence L about custom domain name for CERSI. Initiated discussion with Jill W to add more Siteimprove users for pharm.ucsf.edu. Calendar management. Checked in with Eric G about Drupalcon Seattle hotel and last night's missing deploy. Switched from a standing desk to a seated desk in an attempt to troubleshoot health issues. Began styling work: Get Started block on PharmD home for Eric. Lunch at desk: one pumpkin and white cheddar tamale, tortilla chips, water. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Rode Muni to the Castro. Met Patrick for a progressive dinner with 20 persons including Gigi, Pranav, George, Roberto, Tony, Brandon, Jordan, Chris, with host Mat S. Patrick found the event on Facebook. The event occurred during heavy rain, which made for some drama during travel between locations. Four stops: assorted flavored popcorns (white cheddar, butter, kettle corn) and Roederer Estate L'ermitage 2012 Brut at Swirl. Cauliflower ravioli and white wine at Poesia. Cocido de Bacalao (wild cod filet with chickpea, chorizo, sofrito, fish fume, aioli) and Pincelo, Diego de Lemos Branco, Godello, Ribiera Sacra, 2015 at Canela. Almost Blum's coffee crunch cake (with coffee honeycomb toffee and coffee whipped cream) and espresso martini at Finn Town. This event was more social activity and more alcohol than we are used to, but we both enjoyed meeting new people in this different format and thought the food and drink were an excellent value at $80 per person, tips included. Since we purchased tickets in advance, there was no dealing with a check at each location—nice and a bit strange to walk out of a restaurant without feeling like you have paid. We found all of the food and drink to be excellent, which we somewhat expected since these are all restaurants which we already love or at which we have previously had good experiences.
Thu Jan 17, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover goulash and rice, hot darjeeling tea. Rode Uber Pool to UCSF Laurel Heights. Drafted and delivered digital letterhead for Robin C. Lunch at desk: one pumpkin and white cheddar tamale, tortilla chips, water. Began styling work on sop-link-imgthumbs (formerly sop-linkall) which makes images adjacent to links also linked, such as in news views. More styling work on various Asana tasks. Reminded Susie about a task that is pending her action to talk to Sharon. More Siteimprove work: misspellings and review words. Walked and rode Muni downtown. Dinner at Chipotle (415-765-9043, 232 O'Farrell Street) with Patrick: chicken burrito for Patrick, barbacoa burrito for me, Izze clementine for each: $27.45. I did not like eating at this Chipotle at all and vowed to never return. Afterwards we saw Julie Klausner in conversation with Tom Scharpling, part of SF Sketchfest. Patrick had seen some Billy on the Street and all of Difficult People. I had seen none of it and still enjoyed myself. Rode UberX home.
Fri Jan 18, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: buttermilk pancakes with maple syrup, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Letterhead work. Siteimprove work and styling work all day. Errand: mailed a package at the post office. Lunch at Mel's Diner: lunch special: half sandwich and cup of soup. I chose turkey breast and chicken noodle. $9.95 before tax and $2 tip, cash only as requested by a (temporary?) sign on the front door. Susie said we could go home early since it was the start of a three-day holiday weekend. Rode Uber Pool home. House chores. Dinner at home with Patrick: Esalen's chicken enchiladas with ranchero sauce. Patrick made a hurricane cocktail which we shared. Watched about half of In Bruges on Netflix DVD with Patrick and popcorn. Backed up then updated my iPhone X and iPad Pro to iOS 12. Found that I'm now unable to connect my iOS devices to my Sierra Mac. Resolved error "a software update is required to connect to iphone" after some wheel-spinning by manually downloading and installing the latest version of iTunes. For a while I thought I was going to have to update macOS to the latest version to resolve it. Manually reindexed Spotlight because iTunes no longer appeared in Spotlight—and this resolved it. Chatted with Bluehost Support in an attempt to resolve a problem with addon domain content being indexed by Google as subdomain content. The technician was unable to help me, but he escalated my request to level 2 with whom they wouldn't let me chat but I was told I would receive an email reply.
Sat Jan 19, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: I made breakfast goulash tacos. Nap with Patrick. Shower. Nap by myself. Started my haircut, showered. Lunch: leftover enchiladas. Finished my haircut, showered. Patrick made buttermilk cornbread today, and we each tried a small piece. Finished watching In Bruges on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Continued reviewing SpamSieve activity, finally figuring out that I can safely delete messages in the Spam folder as long as they are correctly spam. Later I rode Uber Pool to 15th Avenue House for dinner with Phil, Drew, Danny, Romy, Richard, Michael, Quyen, Dave, Chris, Nate, Jonathan, and Paul. Paul stayed awhile then left just before we ate dinner to attend Genentech's holiday party at the Exploratorium. Dinner: linguini with marinara, caesar salad, warm bread, warm Patrick's cornbread. During dinner we played What I Learned Today. (Mine: Bruges is in Belgium.) Dessert: we celebrated two birthdays with a tiramisu ice cream cake. Rode UberX home. Late meal: miso ramen from a package to which I added ingredients found in the fridge: carrot, green onion, parsley, chicken. Washed dishes before bed.
Sun Jan 20, 2019
Breakfast at home: I prepared for myself one egg in bird's nest (grated hash browns from frozen with grilled onions and fresh rosemary), 8 ounces of orange juice. Research for purchasing a new jacket. For lunch I walked to Grubbin' and returned with a Sweet Mouth Waterin' and an order of large fries to share with Patrick. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: one sweet corn tamale each from frozen, tortilla chips, Hint pineapple. Rode UberX with Patrick to SFJAZZ for a performance by Branford Marsalis Quartet. Rode UberX home. Late snack: tortilla chips, Hint pineapple.
Mon Jan 21, 2019
Rode Uber Pool to the Castro with Patrick. Breakfast at Wooden Spoon: we shared the breakfast panini and a side of potatoes, coffee with cream for Patrick, orange juice for me. Afterwards we walked to Mom Ryan and Kerry's place for a visit, bringing leftover potatoes and two pastries (blueberry muffin, lemon-currant scone) to drop off. Later we walked in the area before riding UberX home. I cleaned part of the back yard of fallen leaves to keep the storm drain clear then napped. Dinner at home with Patrick: Anne Burrell's risotto milanese with side salad. Afterwards we watched Star Trek: Discovery s2:e1 followed by I Love Lucy s3e1, both on CBS All Access. Watched 1 hour and 10 minutes of Metropolis (1927) on the Roku Channel. Late meal: creamy coconut instant pho noodles in a cup to which I added other dry noodles.
Tue Jan 22, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: TJ's cinnamon roll wreath; apple, pear, and mint fruit salad; ginger tisane. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Lots of Siteimprove work, including the start of the pilot program for pharm.ucsf.edu editors. Created my first policies. Lunch with Patrick at Beautifull!: Eric's chicken wrap and san pell for Patrick; three sides (thai udon noodles, yellow beets, kale caesar) and tap water for me. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover chicken breast grilled with tomatoes mixed with leftover risotto, san pell for Patrick, hot water for me. Dessert: leftover cinnamon wreath rolls, warm milk with almond extract.
Wed Jan 23, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: oatmeal with fixins, ginger tisane. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Worked with Joel to draft links to new videos about the PharmD program from the admissions home page. Chatted briefly with Stephen B and gave him a Naked Wines discount card. Lunch at Panda Express: panda bowl with fried rice and beef with broccoli, Dasani black cherry. My fortune: There is much to be learned by listening to others. Worked from Kalmanovitz Library. Meeting with Kylie B about the payment process around the APhA Immunizations training via Eventbrite. Followup tasks. Dropped my rolling backpack at the Dean's Office Administration office for overnight parking. Rode Muni from UCSF Parnassus to Embarcadero Street Station. For dinner we had planned to dine at Blanc et Rouge but Patrick had arrived early and after scoping it decided it wasn't for us. We then met at Sacramento and Davis then briefly looked in at Harborview and again we said no. Next we tried Osha Thai but it was absurdly noisy so we left. We ended up dining at Gott's Roadside, splitting a Wisconsin sourdough burger and onion rings. To drink: water and a small chocolate shake for Patrick, water for me. $22.75 before a $1 counter service tip. It turned out to be almost as noisy as Osha Thai. Walked to the Punch Line for Best of Sacramento: Ngaio Bealum, Keith Lowell Jensen, Kiry Shabazz, and hosted by Amy Estes. We originally purchased these tickets because JR DeGuzman was on the bill, but he was replaced at the last minute by Keith Lowell Jensen. We were disappointed by the change, but all the comics were terrific, and the show nearly sold out. Drinks: drug mule then later water and another drug mule for Patrick, toasted almond then later water and a paloma for me. Soon after we also ordered regular popcorn which was delicious. I suspected that it was microwave popcorn. Service by Kayleen was very good. $60 before a $10.50 tip. Rode Lyft home. Realized from my journal that we had previously seen Ngaio Bealum at Punch Line on March 30, 2004.
Thu Jan 24, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Breakfast at Cafe Bellini: lox on sesame bagel, green tea. Worked from S126. Virtual sprint standup. Visited the OSACA and worked more on the admissions page with Joel. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Various task followup and styling work. Rode UberX to SoMa. Dinner at Basil Thai (1175 Folsom Street) with Patrick: goong gra bog, kang gai, pad se-ew, sticky rice, two thai iced teas. $53.60 before a $9 tip for Mai. Walked to Oasis for ShowStoppers: An Evening With Garland & Minnelli starring Logan Walker. Set list: Yes; Old Friends and Live Alone and Like It; Cabaret; But the World Goes Around; The Day After That; New York, New York; intermission; Just in Time; Rockabye Your Baby with Dixie Melody; Over the Rainbow; The Party's Over. Drinks combined: two margaritas, one rum and coke, one coke. $38 before a $7 tip for Ryan D. Rode UberX home. Joined the Uber Rewards program since there seemed to be no disadvantages to doing so. Installed iOS 12.1.3 on my iPad Pro. No issues following installation. Air freshener refill maintenance.
Fri Jan 25, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Styling work. Resolved requests from Angela K. Lunch at Vixi: hot water with lemon, minestrone soup, whole wheat penne with chicken and broccolini in marinara: $20 after tip. Errands: grocery and hardware store. Siteimprove work: resolved short words repeated in succession, added more policies. Chatted briefly with Eric about Siteimprove policies. Snack: chococonut breakfast bar. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: meatballs and tomato-basil sauce with creamy polenta. Troubleshot and resolved a sound problem with Patrick's MacBook Pro. Security updates and backups for home computers. Late snack: caramel popcorn.
Sat Jan 26, 2019
Breakfast at home: Patrick's sandwich leftover from yesterday, hot water. Made laminated dogs in blankets cards to remind Patrick and me when the oil-based space heaters are on, and archived tax documents, troubleshooting and resolving network printing and scanning problems along the way. Recharge Medical work: editing N-648 copy. Lunch: chili from a can, tortilla chips. Patrick made Esalen's trustee muffins. Afternoon snack: one muffin. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie burger with french fries and French 75s. Watched Star Trek: Discovery s2:e2 on CBS All Access with Patrick and SkinnyPop popcorn—no bowl to wash! Cocktail: planter's punch.
Sun Jan 27, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: sunny-side-up eggs, toast with butter, sliced banana with an amarena cherry in date syrup, 8 ounces of orange juice. Honmas arrived, dropping off a punch bowl that I had asked to borrow. We drove to Noriega to stop at Cafe Bakery before continuing to George Washington High School for Akemi's league basketball game. They won by around a 10-point lead. Afterwards we ate dim sum at Ton Kiang then explored shops on Geary, first a Russian bakery where we bought nothing, then a Jewish bakery called Frena where I bought three kinds of old-fashioned bagels: sesame, poppy seed, zaatar. The Honmas dropped me at home. Watched Comedians of the World: Chris D'Elia on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Shanghai Dumpling King via Seamless. We ordered in advance at 4:45 pm requesting a 6:00 pm delivery. We were initially promised a delivery window of 6:00 to 6:10 pm, then later we were notified that the delivery was delayed to 6:10 to 6:20 pm. It arrived mostly cold at 6:15 pm. Hot and sour soup, beef fried rice, pan fried pork bun, Beijing-style boiled chives dumpling, spicy chives and shrimp dumpling. Watched-played Black Mirror Bandersnatch on Netflix instant watch with Patrick for somewhere between 60 and 90 minutes before stopping due to tiredness. Late snack: leftover fried rice.
Mon Jan 28, 2019
Breakfast: old-fashioned bagels with labneh, 8 ounces of orange juice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Filed pcard paperwork. Styling work and Asana task followup. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Tried to lunch at My Father's Kitchen but it was too crowded. Lunch at Godzila: tempura bento box, green tea: $20 cash after tip. Walked back to UCSF Laurel Heights. Styling work and Asana task followup. I spoke by telephone and Bomgar session with Kevin W from UCSF IT who confirmed that my computer has Java 8 Update 201 Build 09 and that that is the recommended version (even though the Java Control Panel says "A critical Java security update is available.") and that if I see any prompts to install a newer version of Java that I should ignore them and that if an upgrade is later recommended it will be delivered through BigFix. (INC4514796) More Siteimprove work. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: ordered delivery at 6:40 pm from Park Gyros (1201 Ninth Avenue) via Uber Eats which delivered in 25 minutes. We liked that you can watch the driver approach on the map—no one else does that. I liked that the feedback that Uber asks is simple to provide yet much more specific than with other services—you rate the driver/delivery, the restaurant, and each of the dishes you ordered. The receipt is also much better designed. The only thing missing from the receipt is the order time and the delivery time. Research for buying an air purifier.
Tue Jan 29, 2019
UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Dean's Office New Years Celebration and Staff Luncheon with food from Nopalito: mexican rice, pinquito beans, tamales, enchiladas, tacos, tortilla chips, guacamole, various salsas, beet and orange salad, hibiscus orange drink, iced tea, and more. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Asana task followup. Styling work with Eric and staged PharmD content (trying to get an image centered in its container). Stopped at Bryan's for some groceries. Rode UberX home. Dinner at home with Patrick: udon noodles with miso, braised tofu, green onions and shiitake; Hint water. Dessert: one small Rubicon Bakers chocolate blackout vegan cupcake with 8 ounces of whole milk each. Played more of Homo Machina for iOS on my iPad Pro. Recharge Medical work: editing blog post drafts.
Wed Jan 30, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: blueberry scone, simplified ambrosia, hot tea with milk. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Styling work all day: forms fixes and more. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Mt. Zion. Lunch at Yum Yum Hunan: sweet and sour fish with fried rice lunch plate, including hot and sour soup and egg roll; hot tea: $14 before a $2 tip. My fortune: You desire recognition and you will find it. Walked back to work. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: hard-shell beef tacos with Mexican rice and fixins, tap water with lime wheel and lime zest.
Thu Jan 31, 2019
Woke with a sore throat. Emailed in sick. Tried submitting my timesheet, but it requires VPN to connect, which requires dual authentication. I don't use VPN very often, so I had to spend 20 minutes trying to remember which login, which password, and which secondary password to use, and also which sets of credentials in my password database were no longer current. Breakfast at home: beef and barley soup from a can. Drank water and ate sore throat lozenges all day. Snack: small, warm blueberry scone. Rested. Did some pantry tidying and vacuuming. Snack: tortilla chips and leftover appetizer combo from Park Gyros. Watched Tidying Up with Marie Kondo s1:e1 and Abstract: The Art of Design: s1:e1: Christoph Niemann on Netflix instant watch by myself. I learned that Marie Kondo uses the same clothes folding techniques that I do. And pretty much everything that Christoph Niemann draws is delightful. Dinner at home with Patrick: Creole red beans and rice. We had planned to have Kerry and Mom Ryan over for dinner tonight, but that was before I had gotten sick.