Tuesday, January 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.