August 2019
Summary: Nate's birthday in the Sunnyvale condo's party room, Salesforce Park with Patrick, Burning Man week dining: China Live, Tartine Manufactory, Octavia
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Thu Aug 1, 2019
Breakfast at home: granola, yogurt, and fresh raspberries; one apple; one pint of hot water. Washed dishes. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Forwarded an inquiry to the Kidney Project team. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking. More layout data gathering. Followup with Babbitt Lab website down. Downgraded from Docker 2.1.0.0 to 2.0.0.3 to resolve "resolving host" or ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED problems—thanks to James for the answer. Chatted with Eric and James about meat bees, health info websites, and dentistry and titles. Lunch by myself at Mo'Z: tuna melt on focaccia, side caesar salad with croutons, hot water with lemon. My lunch was marred by urban videos playing relentlessly on two screens in the main dining room. Throughout my meal they displayed videos with large-breasted, big-bootied, scantily clad women dancing, writhing, posing, gyrating, and twerking via someone's YouTube playlist. Think Nicki Minaj and Pitbull (the only two I recognized). I'd take a bite of my sandwich, then out of the corner of my eye, the video might show a woman wearing a thong with the shot filling the entire screen with her butt and she would raise it in slow motion to the fast beats. That's not what I enjoy while eating. The food was great, despite wanting to vomit. I wouldn't be surprised if the YouTube playlist was called Urban Whorehouse Waiting Room. The food seemed very fresh, expertly prepared, mint leaves plate accent (which you know they didn't have to do), generous portions for the price. Counter service, but the food deliverator got me a refill of hot water when asked, which I didn't expect. About $13 after a $1 tip (even tho counter service). Not sure I'll return. Bought snacks for work and home at Trader Joe's. Siteimprove work: created new groups for each microsite on pharm, linkchecking. Reported downed sites. Rode Uber Pool home. Dinner at home with Patrick: braised beef with creamy polenta and side salad, Hint water. Dessert: we shared a banana split with chocolate ice cream, whipped cream from a can, maraschino cherries, and warm peanut butter sauce. We watched part of the July 31 Democratic debate via cnn.com. It was really hard figuring out how to watch it, since it didn't seem to be on YouTube. We wanted to watch the July 30 debate first, but somehow what we thought was the July 30 debate turned out to be the July 31 debate. Patrick went to bed. Second dessert: one root beer Twizzler. I washed dishes. Reinstalled MAMP Pro on Patrick's laptop.
Fri Aug 2, 2019
Breakfast at home: granola with yogurt and fresh raspberries and fresh, sliced banana; side of a sliced peach; 8 ounces of cold water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Continued resolving deprecated style classes people and people2018. Lots of various email followup. Snacked on various snacks throughout the day. Siteimprove work the rest of the day. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: red beans and rice with cheesy garlic bread, water. Dessert: two small pieces of dark chocolate. Continued watching with Patrick the July 31 Democratic debate via cnn.com. Home websites work: got MAMP Pro working again. Recharge Medical web work: change a price for something, updated the About page with new employee names. Washed dishes. Home websites broken links resolution. Late meal: leftover risotto, water.
Sat Aug 3, 2019
Slept in. Breakfast at home: granola with yogurt and fresh, sliced banana; one pint of hot water. More home websites work: stabilized my local dev environment and got it fully working on my account on Patrick's laptop as well. Lunch: mushroom soup, half of a grilled cheese sandwich with swiss, fresh dill, and salad greens. Patrick ate the other half of the sandwich but without salad greens. Hot water to drink. Organized photos that I had scanned earlier. Organized, edited, uploaded, titled, then privately shared photos from the Sensoria weekend. Watched the remainder of the July 31 Democratic debate via cnn.com with Patrick, flavored sparkling water, popcorn, and other snacks. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Dessert: ice cream. Patrick went to bed. I administered monthly updates and backups for all home devices. Removed a medium-sized black spider with the spider catcher to the garage. Washed dishes. Late meal: chicken and bean quesadilla from ingredients leftover from taco night, hot water.
Sun Aug 4, 2019
Slept in. Breakfast at home: granola with yogurt and fresh, diced apple; one pint of hot water. Resolved network problems by switching the sharing settings of the computer being shared from AFP to SMB protocol. Why have I been using AFP all this time? The problem I was having was that the computer I was trying to connect to would either disappear from the Finder sidebar or the Locations section of the Finder sidebar would disappear. If I restarted the connecting computer I could then connect, but a few minutes later it would disappear again, and my connection would fail to work. Patrick's MacBook Pro didn't have the same problem, so maybe it was caused by my laptop being in a mixed server environment at work? Patrick baked a devil's food cake today, and I helped by washing dishes. Nap. Shower. Rode UberX with Patrick to Alamo Drafthouse New Mission for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We shared popcorn no butter and a baked pretzel. Patrick had a Dr. Pepper, I had water. We enjoyed the film, which made 2 hours and 45 minutes seem to pass quite easily. Food bill was $25.96 before a $4.60 tip for Horowitz, who was polite and efficient. Walked to dinner at Wise Sons: we shared a reuben sandwich with potato salad and a latke. Patrick had an egg creme; I had water. Counter service. The food was perfect. Patrick bought a few more items to go. Rode UberX home. Dessert: Patrick and I shared three rugulach total (1.5 rugulach each) with warm milk. Patrick went to bed. I polished the accordian wall mirror and other stainless steel fixtures in the bathroom. Washed dishes.
Mon Aug 5, 2019
Breakfast at home: toasted Wise Sons everything bagel with whipped cream cheese, hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Removed Oracle Java 8 and installed AdoptOpenJDK 12. Styling work: continued resolving deprecation of classes people and people2018. I think this is done now? Snack: dried fruit, inca corn. Rode Uber Pool to SoMa. Met Patrick for couples counseling. Walked with Patrick to dinner at Montesacro Pinseria-Enoteca (415-795-3040, 510 Stevenson Street): prosciutto e melone, pinsa pietralata (guanciale, egg, pecorino/parm, mozzarella, black pepper). Mexican lager for Patrick, white wine for me. Dessert: Patrick had budino al cioccolato piccante, I had espresso sorbetto with whipped cream. $78.61 before a $13 tip for Antonio. Another great meal at the Pinseria. Rode UberX home. Washed dishes. Resolved some broken links for Lodestar.
Tue Aug 6, 2019
Breakfast at home: steamed Wise Sons everything bagel with whipped cream cheese, slice tomato, and zaatar; hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Siteimprove work: linkcheck. Resolved a page markup issue for Jaime K for ACDRS. Reported downed sites. Continued resolving full size images should be set smaller unless they take the full width of the page. Followup with A-Z List request. Followup with Siteimprove false positive. Followup with Joel about a table structure issue on the application processing fee page. Followup with Erika, Marley, and Jen C about web editor permissions for some fellowship sites. Created a task for James to resolve a content maintenance issue, which he completed within a few minutes. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: breaded shrimp tacos with lime, cabbage slaw, cilantro, green onion, sour cream; Hint water. Afterwards I prepared hot chocolate in the microwave and blender, and Patrick added cinnamon-juniper syrup. We began watching the July 30 Democratic debate via cnn.com for a while then switched to Blue Planet II via Netflix instant watch. Washed dishes. Resolved some broken links for Lodestar Quarterly. Late snack: grilled roast beef and swiss sprinkled with rosemary powder and freshly ground black pepper, hot water.
Wed Aug 7, 2019
Breakfast at home: granola with yogurt, fresh diced apple, cinnamon; one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Task followup. Began backfilling related profiles in old Updates from the Dean. Calpoison kickoff meeting. D8 migration meeting. Snacked on dried fruit and kale chips instead of eating lunch. Dinner at home with Patrick: three-cheese ravioli with cherry tomatoes, sweet corn, garlic, basil and parmesan; Hint water. Afterwards we watched Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It? on Netflix instant watch—so funny and weird! Resolved shell environment issues in my web hosting account.
Thu Aug 8, 2019
Breakfast at home: toasted sesame bagel with swiss and roast beef, one pint of hot water, one green apple. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Met Grant and Levi to photograph the new PharmD students counting Skittles and inserting them into pharmacy pill bottles, part of an exercise for them to examine their own behaviors in a medication adherance scenario. The shoot went well. Grant left to attend a talent show. Levi and I walked with his bike to lunch at Nopalito. We each got a plate of dos tacos pescado al pastor (rockfish), spicy sauce on the side, water. Levi's position was recently changed from temporary to permanent, so I treated. We talked about neuroscience, psychology, East coast vs. West coast, the Inner Sunset neighborhood, the randomness of encountering the same people at different points in your life, and more. $28.48 before a $6 tip. Afterwards we took a quick peek inside the new Tartine next door. He rode back to Laurel Heights. I walked to Parnassus and rode the shuttle back. Filed pcard paperwork. Prepped a diptych for a news story for Levi. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: pizza with bbq pulled pork, red onion, and sweet corn; red wine for me; Hint water for both. Afterwards we continued playing The Witness on iOS on my iPad Pro.
Fri Aug 9, 2019
Breakfast at home: whipped cream cheese, cherry tomato, and basil on toasted english muffin, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Chatted with Eric and James J about changes to the pcard reconciliation process. Completed resolving missing related profiles in old Updates from the Dean. HR import, encountered some issues and began working with Eric to resolve them. Edited and published a news story and hero for Levi. Met with Levi and Grant to review the Skittles photoshoot. Snacked on incan corn and banana chips. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: fusilli with pulled pork ragu with tomatoes, fresh corn, and basil; Hint water. Afterwards we watched half of Stranger by the Lake on Netflix DVD. Washed dishes. Resolved more broken links on home websites. Set up some additional linklint command shortcuts. Catalogued new extracts in the spices spreadsheet.
Sat Aug 10, 2019
More tweaking of linklint configuration. Breakfast at home: roast beef and swiss with dried thyme on toasted english muffin, a small side of granola with yogurt and chopped brazil nuts, one pint of hot water. House chores: vacuumed, cleaned the filter on the small vacuum cleaner. Cut my hair, showered. Lunch with Patrick: grilled roast beef and swiss sandwich. Helped Patrick create a new profile on his MacBook Pro in order to alleviate what is probably a corrupted profile causing slowness in all kinds of apps. Finished watching Stranger by the Lake on Netflix DVD. Neither of us liked the film very much. It had good acting but the pacing was too slow, the plot wasn't very interesting, and the dialog was boring. We're not sure how it has 6.8 on IMDB. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover fusilli with side salad with croutons and olive oil dressing, hot water for me, sparkling water for Patrick. Continued new profile setup. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: two red Twizzlers, some plantain chips, water. Late meal: dried fruit, chicken noodle soup from a can, water.
Sun Aug 11, 2019
Breakfast at home: scrambled eggs with Spice Ace fines herbes, sausage patty, hash brown with ketchup, slice of toast with butter, one pint of hot water. Washed dishes. Edited more childhood photos that I had scanned earlier. Lunch: leftover rice and beans. Continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro. Nap. Shower. Rode Muni with Patrick to the Castro, walked to Detour, which is the bar and restaurant that took over the old Botellon space to expand Brewcade. We had two drinks: Pixie Stick (gin, cucumber, aloe, mint, lime, soda) for Patrick, The Wiggle (tequila, lime, grapefruit, amaro, soda) for me. Dinner: we shared a burger with fries and a chicken napa cabbage salad with miso vinaigrette. We played video games Joust then Centipede. We then played free board games Connect Four and Battleship with another round of drinks: another Pixie Stick for Patrick, and Sucker Punch (mezcal, lime, bitter hibiscus, watermelon, tajin) for me. Walked and rode Muni home, encountering and chatting briefly with Larry H and Chris C at Castro Street Station, who were recently back from a vacation weekend. At home I heated a toffee milk chocolate cookie I got on the way home at Hot Cookie and ate that with hot milk mixed with water. Edited more childhood photos that I had scanned earlier. Continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro.
Mon Aug 12, 2019
Breakfast at home: egg with herbes de provence, sausage patty, and swiss on toasted english muffin. Calendar management: set up content liaison meetings. Edited and prepped the new PharmD Ed News in Mailchimp for Alexa. Web edits for the current students site for Cindy via Eric. Reworked content on the Find a Place to Live page. Redirected a request from Esteban to Katherine K for the CPT site. Followup with Joel about removing a link from the Find a Place to Live page. Snack: nuts, dried fruit, water. Sat in the courtyard in the sun for a few hours while working. Followup with UCSF IT about A-Z list issues. Cataloged a few missing sites in our list of websites. Followup with Katherine K about an expired job posting on the BTS site. Linkchecking in Siteimprove. Asana task review. Walked and rode Muni home, stopping at Cal-Mart along the way for some groceries. Dinner at home with Patrick: fried rice from frozen with grilled shrimp from frozen. We continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro.
Tue Aug 13, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover beans and rice with fresh cilantro and a squeeze of lime, one pint of water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Granted permissions for a website to Jennifer E at Esteban's request, with some followup afterwards. Email and task various followup. Asana went down today. We recently changed the name of our main support form, so today I updated all occurrences of that form name on the pages that linked to it. There were a lot. Updated the list of websites to include a column indicating whether each site mentioned an affiliation with the School of Pharmacy. Began reading CSS Layout News, which seems pretty terrific. Sent inquiries to site owners about downed sites or who admins it. Followup with Jon R about identifying alums for LinkedIn. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie enchiladas with side of black beans, Hint water. Continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro.
Wed Aug 14, 2019
Chatted with Patrick about relationship issues. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights, stopping at Ashley's Cafe for a croissant breakfast sandwich and water since there was a longish wait for a 1 or 1BX. Asana task followup. Linkchecking for microsites. HR report review and resolution with Eric. Prepped and queued PharmD Ed news for Mailchimp delivery. Prepped and started RSS Mailchimp delivery for automated news monthly, weekly, and daily. Snack: peanuts, pumpkin seeds, banana chips. Resolved some broken links for pharm. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken tikka masala and basmati rice, Hint water. Continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro with Patrick.
Thu Aug 15, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover black beans with leftover chicken tikka masala and leftover rice, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Snack: banana chips, one Peruvian murcott. Walked and rode Muni to SoMa. Met Patrick for dinner. We decided on Pizzeria Delfina where we shared a tuna conserva (salad) and, on special, a squash blossoms pizza. Patrick had a happy hour beer; I had a happy hour red wine. Food and drink were delicious, service was good. Afterwards we visited SFMOMA. We weren't that interested in Warhol, which has an exhibition now thru September 2, but we did particularly enjoy JR: The Chronicles of San Francisco and Far Out: Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space. JR was quite impressive—an animated, collaged, diorama on a huge scale inspired by Diego Rivera's murals. Attempted to ride Muni home, but just as we arrived we heard the tail end of an announcement. A fellow rider explained that Muni was not permitting outbound trains on the outbound track but that they would board outbound passengers on the inbound side and then switch the train to the outbound track along the way. The current wait was 20 minutes for an L train. We immediately returned upstairs. I obtained a refund at the ticket booth after waiting in line for about two minutes. Above ground we walked a little off Market Street. I began to order an Uber but its intructions seemed to indicate that we would need to walk even more, so I switched to Lyft. The Lyft estimate was seven minutes, and I ordered, but we waited at least twice that long, probably due to traffic, but the other weird thing was that the app said the driver had arrived for over five minutes before he actually arrived. The rest of the ride was fine.
Fri Aug 16, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover chicken tikka masala and steamed basmati rice. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Siteimprove work. Snacked on nuts and dried fruit. Walked and rode Muni home, stopping at Cal-Mart along the way for some groceries. Dinner at home with Patrick: meatballs and polenta. Dessert: one slice each of Patrick's devil's food cake with milk (and my milk diluted with a bit of water). Slept with Patrick for a bit when he went to bed then woke and did some maintenance work on Lodestar, resolving some xml mime type and charset issues.
Sat Aug 17, 2019
Slept in. Brunch: leftover fusilli and meatballs, one pint of water. Lodestar template troubleshooting. Snack with Patrick: pita and spinach dip. Phil, Drew, Danny, Romy, Phillip, and Paul picked me up at home. We drove to Sunnyvale for a celebration of Nate's birthday in the comfortable party room at their condo. I met or encountered many, some not for a long time: Theora with baby, Chris G, Larry, Patty, Mike, Mike, Jen, Quyen, Dave, David, Richard, Mike, Bill, Todd, Sravya, Achal. We enjoyed kabobs, mediterranean rice, pita and dips, various salads and snacks, a variety of drinks, and more. Quyen prepared a perfect orange cake with coconut frosting. Someone else—I didn't hear who—brought a black forest cake which was also delicious. People played pool and then ping pong. Nate gave a tour of the new condo. On the ride home, Phillip read hilariously from my journal for a bit. Late snack: two slices of bread with spinach dip.
Sun Aug 18, 2019
Breakfast: one Peruvian murcott. Brunch: leftover meatballs with leftover fusilli. Rode Muni to Embarcadero Street Station with Patrick. We walked to and visited Salesforce Park at the Transbay Terminal. It's a very pleasant space, and I was very impressed with what seems to be a very generous and well-designed gift to the people of San Francisco. Patrick noted that despite being a public space there seemed to be no issues with homeless people. His favorite part was the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana). During our visit we encountered a number of staffpersons, and some of them answered questions for us. Afterwards we considered brunching at Yank Sing on Stevenson Street then changed our minds and instead ate at Sears Fine Food because Patrick wanted diner food. Patrick had coffee with Al's Special (two eggs ordered over medium, corned beef hash, nine little pancakes, hash browns), I had hot water with Southern Corned Beef Hash and Eggs (with hash browns and toast). $40.86 before a $7.50 tip. Afterwards we visited Sunday Streets SoMa, walking along Folsom Street almost the entire length. Then we walked to the Castro, stopping at Turner's Kitchen along the way for beverages. I stopped at Cliff's then Hortica then again at Cliff's, finally buying two pieces of pottery for our orchids. Encountered Ray and Nicos in the Castro, then again encountered Ray on the train home, chatting briefly. Ray departed at West Portal Station. Walked and rode Muni home. Patrick showered then napped, then later I napped as well. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover meatballs and polenta with some fresh sauce, side salad with croutons, Hint cherry.
Mon Aug 19, 2019
Breakfast at home: egg with Spice Ace fines herbes, sausage patty, and Swiss on toasted sesame bagel, 1.5 pints of water. Washed dishes. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Siteimprove work. Lunch: nuts and dried fruit. Styling work. Zoom meeting with Katherine K and Eric D: content metadata. Zoom meeting with Marley Q and Eric D: content metadata. More Siteimprove work. Handled a request from Marissa about letterhead. Walked and rode Muni home, stopping at the hardware and grocery stores along the way. Dinner at home with Patrick: tuna mac and cheese, water. After dinner we continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro. Today Patrick took a class on using Procreate for iOS at Apple Store Stonestown. He's planning to begin some digital drawing projects.
Tue Aug 20, 2019
Breakfast at home: leftover meatballs and polenta, one red apple, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Siteimprove work. 1:1 with Eric. Webadmin meeting. Attempted to meet with Eric and JoAnne about the content metadata project, but something must have come up for JoAnne. I rescheduled. Asana task followup. Responded to Peter L about a request related to news for Su Guo's lab site. No lunch; snacked on nuts and dried fruit. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp and andouille jambalaya, French bread and butter, Hint watermelon. Dessert: a few bites of toffee. Began watching with Patrick and popcorn The Expanse s1:e1 on Amazon Prime Video on Chris's recommendation. So far we like it. Finally resolved some troublesome problems with special characters in filenames in the Lodestar Quarterly website.
Wed Aug 21, 2019
Breakfast at home: one nectarine, three dried plums. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Virtual sprint standup. Worked in the courtyard in the sun. Reworked news for Guo Lab all day. Lunch: leftover jambalaya. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie cheeseburgers and shoestring fries, Hint water. Dessert: a few bites of toffee each. Continued playing The Witness for iOS on my iPad Pro with Patrick. Late snack: tortilla chips.
Thu Aug 22, 2019
Breakfast at home: one nectarine, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Styling work: small fixes. Followup with automated news which didn't send like we had expected. Followup tasks to close some old Qualtrics forms. Prepped for golive of Guo Lab new news page. Followup with Peter L about broken links. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp po-boys with a side of creole red beans, Hint watermelon. Continued playing The Witness for iOS on my iPad Pro with Patrick. Resolved broken links for Lodestar. Attempted to use Ingo's version of James B. Bowlin's linklint, but it didn't seem to have the https fixes that I needed, so I abandoned it. Late snacks: nuts, dried fruit, tortilla chips with guacamole and sour cream, water.
Fri Aug 23, 2019
Breakfast at home: granola with yogurt and fresh, diced green apple and a shake of cinnamon; one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to work, chatting with Maria along the way. Made live a new news page for Guo Lab and informed Peter of the completion of his request. Virtual sprint standup. CSS methodologies research, Siteimprove task followup. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus with Grant. Attended Podcasting Essentials - Communicators Network Lunch & Learn with Grant B from our team and Ben M from Carry The One Radio. Lunched with Grant and Ben afterwards at Sriracha Thai. Cool winds blowing west to east along Parnassus Avenue were unusually and notably gusty today. After a fine meal, we stopped briefly at Arizmendi. They were out of ricciarelli, so I didn't buy anything. Grant got a snickerdoodle, and Ben got something else to go (scones?). Walked back to Parnassus Campus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights with Grant. Asana task followup. Walked and rode Muni to Chinatown. Met Patrick for dinner at China Live. San Pell and Gold Mountain cocktail ($15) for Patrick, still water and Trader Vic's Almost Mai Tai ($15) for me. We shared: crab spring rolls ($19), cucumber skins ($8), suckling pig ($34), duck chopped salad ($18), sheng jian bao (aka SJB) ($13.50). Patrick also had a Tsing Tao ($8) with the meal, which was seemingly timed to arrive exactly at the right time. For dessert we shared one sesame cheesecake ($8) and one tiramisu ($9). $178 after SF employer mandate ($7) and tax ($13.94) and before a $31.25 tip from Diana "Luna" G ("My name is Diana") whose service was enjoyable and whose recommendations were excellent. We sat on barstools at the corner of the dumplings station and enjoyed watching all the activity around us. We had visited only once before and it was mostly dead then. All of the food and drink were delicious. The suckling pig was served in slices with very crispy skin and very tender meat. It is very reminiscent of Peking duck. I don't recall ever having eaten anything like the SJB, which was my favorite dish of the meal. This was intentionally a splurge meal; the food, setting, and ambiance are great but the bang-for-buck value is low. We could probably have done with one fewer dish and one fewer dessert. Patrick found the cucumber dish particularly refreshing, exactly as Diana had promised. Rode UberX home. Hilariously, a woman boarded our UberX ride when we did and realized her mistake after I mentioned that I didn't order a shared ride. She alighted a block or so from our pickup.
Sat Aug 24, 2019
Brunch at home: one-egg veggie omelet with cheese, hash brown, sausage, sourdough toast with butter, one pint of hot water. Nap. Rode UberX with Patrick to the Portola District where we arrived too early for Drag Queen Bingo at El Toro Night Club (2470 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco CA 94134): Welcome to the Jungle and enjoyed a walk in the neighborhood for about 45 minutes. The doors finally opened, and we waited in line for a while before entering. Encountered Severa Wang, Eric R, Alan, Mitchell, Ray, Michael I, Phil, and Drew. Patrick and I also met Carol, Todd, and Cliff, who sat next to us. We enjoyed ten rounds of bingo and did not win any prizes. Alan won a gift bag. Phil thought he won but was mistaken because that round was not regular bingo and he wasn't paying attention. Pollo Del Mar hosted and was very entertaining when she wasn't eating someone's quesadilla—ha ha! We could tell that it was a lot of work and a lot of people put a lot of love into the event which appeared to be very successful. We had a great time. Patrick had a Modelo and two carne asada and pinto bean tacos, I had a jungle juice cocktail and two mushroom quesadillas. Patrick said that his tacos were surprisingly delicious. The meat was tender, succulent, and juicy. Three soft corn tortillas per taco. Spicy salsa but not too spicy. $29 total. Service by Perla was excellent. Rode UberX to King of Thai Noodle to pick up two orders of kao pad gal tod then walked home to eat. To bed for Patrick then later for me.
Sun Aug 25, 2019
Slept in. Brunch at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs, andouille sausage, grits, homemade buttermilk drop biscuits, New Orleans-style cold brew iced coffee. Cleaned the bathroom. Cut my hair, showered. Cleaned and waxed the Squatty Potty. Repotted the white orchid. Weeded and tidied in the back yard. Nap. Early dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers with chili mac from frozen. Nap. Dessert with Patrick: devil's food cake, milk, water. Continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro. Late meal: mini beef and cheese ravioli in tomato sauce from a can.
Mon Aug 26, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to Starbucks Laurel Village. Breakfast to go: turkey bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich; cup of water no ice. No standup. Ate at my desk. Forwarded a request to the Kidney Project team. Siteimprove task followup. CSS methodologies research. Snacked on crunchy rice roll and no-salt pistachios. Rode Uber Pool to the Mission. Met Patrick for dinner at Tartine Manufactory (415-757-0007, 595 Alabama Street): drinks: for Patrick: stoney maloney (single-barrel bourbon, stonefruit tea, amaro sibona, ron del barrilito 3-star, $15); for me: manufactory "pina colada" (tartine rum blend, coconut cream, pineapple, tonka bean, sparkling wine, $17). We shared: california king salmon crudo (with cherry tomato, kelp, shiso, $19), gazpacho (sungold tomato soup with pistou, $12), wood-fired grilled chicken (with warm potato salad, haricots verts, onion, $36). Dessert: we shared a slice of chocolate souffle ($8.50) and a slice of tres leches ($8.50). Patrick also had a cassis kefir ($8) and an espresso ($3.50). $156.08 before a $30 tip. Service by Nicolette S was very good.
Tue Aug 27, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to Starbucks Laurel Village. Breakfast to go: egg, sausage, and cheddar sandwich on english muffin; cup of water no ice. No standup. Automated news followup with Mailchimp chat. Siteimprove followup. Snack: no-salt peanuts, roasted pumpkin seeds, water. Reworked Wells Lab news similar to Guo Lab news all day. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: mushroom pancetta and shallots pizza with salad (arugula, yellow bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, croutons, and ranch dressing), San Pell for Patrick, Hint blackberry water for me. Dessert: M&Ms for both. Second dessert late for me only: blackberries with whipped cream from a can, Hint blackberry.
Wed Aug 28, 2019
Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Siteimprove followup. More work on Wells Lab news redesign all day. Granted access to Peter L to edit Kathy's website. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: rosemary pork chops with polenta and vegetables, San Pell for Patrick, Hint water for me. Continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro. Dessert: one root beer float ice cream bar.
Thu Aug 29, 2019
Breakfast at home: granola with yogurt and sliced banana, one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Followup with Marley and Susie about someone appointed to a new assistant dean position. More work on Wells Lab news redesign all day. Fielded a request from Jennifer E about redesigning the CPT website. Made personnel page changes to the grad programs websites for Rebecca D. Walked to dinner with Patrick at Octavia. Drinks: Prairie Standard farmhouse ale ($9) for Patrick, glass of Uliz Mondeuse ($15) for me. $75 per person tasting menu: polenta bread with salted butter; deviled egg (dolcini farm egg, fresno chile relish, marash pepper and spice, notably very spicy) for Patrick, chilled squid ink noodles (cortez bottarga, fennel vinaigrette, lemon agrumato) for me; tartlets with fromage blanc and cherry tomatoes; heirloom tomato salad (crispy butter bean, cucumber, sambal, toasted garlic and anchovy); duck liver mousse (with strawberry jam, medjool date, fennel pollen, seeded lavash); pappardelle (with summer squash and squash blossoms, corn romesco, genovese basil, pecorino di filiano); king salmon (with blistered blue lake bean, new potato, dill, cherry tomato, remoulade); wagyu beef (aka grilled petit filet, with nardello pepper, smoky eggplant, lacinato kale, fig, sesame). Desserts: fennel ice cream almond cake, chocolate ice cream and cocoa meringue. For Patrick only: espresso ($3.50). $242.22 after a $40 tip. Service by Stephen was excellent. Rode UberX home. Recharge Medical web work: alter pricing for USCIS exams.
Fri Aug 30, 2019
Something very wonderful happened this morning at about 7:35 am, but I can't say yet what it is. Breakfast at home: granola with milk, sliced banana, and cinnamon; one pint of hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Followup fixes to grad programs changes for Rebecca D. Followup to new assistant dean profile with Erika. Made the Wells Lab news redesign live. No lunch. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken and broccoli alfredo. Cocktails: old fashioneds. Nap. Midnight snack: leftover slice of pizza, hot water. We had planned to go dancing at Oasis tonight (MaDonna Summer: a Madonna and Donna Summer dance party), but we changed our minds at the last minute.
Sat Aug 31, 2019
Breakfast at home: one egg over easy, one hash brown, chopped leftover pork chop, bread and butter, hot water. Nap. Snack with Patrick: hummus and warmed pita, water. Nap. Recharge Medical web work: alter pricing for some items. Dinner at home with Patrick: sausage and peppers sandwiches with creamy buttermilk broccoli soup, hot water. Dessert: one root beer float ice cream bar. Watched The Expanse s1:e2 on Amazon Prime Video with Patrick. Continued playing The Witness on my iPad Pro.