Friday, February 14, 2020
Pre-breakfast: one clementine mandarin. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Zoom meeting with Eric D and Joanna T to discuss lab site build process, Zaro Lab site, listservs, and html email. Worked with Eric to trim and send the editorial style guide announcement. Brunch at desk: the half breakfast sandwich from yesterday. Staged new copy for the PharmD-PhD page for Eric for Susie for Leslie and sent it to Susie for review. Walked and rode Muni to meet Patrick at Spike's where he had a mocha and I had a hot chocolate. Afterwards we walked to dinner at Fable: still tap water, glass of Les Charmes sancerre for Patrick, glass of LeDevoy viognier for me. Three-course prix fixe for $75 each. Patrick had soup, lamb, and chocolate lava cake. I had soup; scallops with pork belly, broccolini, and pureed sweet potato; and rosemary panna cotta. Food delivery was prompt for the first course but afterwards there were very long delays between courses. In particular, at dessert, Patrick's dessert arrived, then there was a long delay of several minutes waiting for mine. Someone came to our table to double-check whether I had ordered lava cake or panna cotta and then left again while I whispered to Patrick, "That's not a good sign." (Was my order not even properly entered into the computer?) We weren't in a hurry, so I didn't make a fuss, even after receiving our check, which included by default a gratuity of 20%. We didn't mind much at the time, but in retrospect I feel that this wasn't a good value. $233.66 after SF mandate and tax. Rode UberX home.