Friday, March 15, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: two eggs over easy, sausage, cornbread with butter. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Thanh H from IT took my laptop away to reimage it at my request to resolve connection problems on my network at home. Finished reading Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think Revisited. Published a news story and a hero for Grant and Levi. Snack: one breakfast bar. No lunch. Began reading (or maybe rereading?) Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence. Walked and rode Muni home. Dropped off things I brought home from work. Changed into a different shirt. Walked and rode Muni with Patrick to Feinstein's at Hotel Nikko for dinner and Matt Alber with Keith Lawrence on (I think:) viola and Patrick McCaffrey on (I think:) vibraphone. The show was sold out. Almost the entire room was bears older than us with the exception of another Asian-Caucasian couple and a few women. Matt opened with a cover of New Rules by Dua Lipa. A few songs in all three musicians shared to much applause that they each had family members attending this show. In the middle Matt sang an a cappella version of Irving Berlin's Always. He closed with Monarch followed by End of the World. I enjoyed every minute of the performance which mixed familiar songs with ones new to me. I don't recall ever seeing bowing on a vibraphone before this—loved seeing and hearing that. Food and drink: Coke for Patrick, lemonade for me, we shared spicy tuna roll, chili nachos, margherita pizza, and for dessert a banana sundae with vanilla and chocolate ice cream. Just food and drink: $83.22 with 18% gratuity included. This was a lot more food than we should have ordered. The spicy tuna roll was a little too spicy for me; I ate only two pieces. I liked the nachos better than the pizza, but both were good. The Coke came with free refills, which isn't clear when you order. I didn't order a second lemonade, but presumably if it's free refills for Coke it's also the same for lemonade. Rode UberX home.