March 2021
Summary: COVID-19 shelter in place continues, vaccine shot #1 for me, San Francisco begins to reopen again.
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Mon Mar 1, 2021
Ran in place to various podcasts via Apple TV. Tried to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine. MyChart had no appointments. MyTurn had only Oakland—same as yesterday. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and blueberries; water. Sprint standup. Met with Anne and Eric about a request from Leslie F to update the PharmD-PhD section. D8 theme work all day. Responded to a logo request from JW. Lunch: small amount of leftover ramen from yesterday; medium salad with grilled salmon, ranch, and dill; water. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Orgchart prep and accompanying web pages prep for Alesia W who starts today. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, raspberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: shakshuka with pita, water, white wine. Afterwards we played various Apple Arcade games on Apple TV then watched Warrior s2:e3 on Cinemax with Martha Stewart's popcorn recipe.
Tue Mar 2, 2021
Ran in place to various podcasts via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and raspberries; water. Tried to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine. MyChart had no appointments. MyTurn today let me sign up to receive notification updates. Sprint standup. Read CSS Layout News 292. D8 theme work. 1:1 with Eric. Worked on creating a keyboard shortcut to hide backend chrome to make screenshot previews easier. Lunch: large salad with salmon, crumbled tofu, mixed greens, grated carrot, blue cheese dressing; water. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: brown rice risotto with asaparagus and saffron, water, white wine. Afterwards we watched Legion s2:e1 on Hulu Basic Plan. Updated content for Patrick's website: new info for SAS reading. Played Trivia Crack 2 and Hot Lava on my iPhone 12 mini. Troubleshot problems with the Esc key sometimes not working due to BetterTouchTool.
Wed Mar 3, 2021
Ran in place to various podcasts and clips on YouTube via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Continued keyboard shortcut work from yesterday. Fielded ideas for replacing the pink background to represent an unpublished or draft node. D8 theme work. Lunch: salad with salmon, grated carrot, cherry tomatoes, ranch dressing, dill; side of savory bread pudding, water. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: Guerra's crab cakes, side of vegetables, side of sweet potato and potato fries, various dipping sauces, water, red wine. Dessert: Humphrey Slocombe Hong Kong Milk Tea ice cream. Afterwards we watched various comedy shows on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: no-oil, no-salt popcorn.
Thu Mar 4, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today on Apple Podcasts then episode 18 of Language and the Mind: Sign Language: Language in Our Hands then Bill Vicars ASL videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Troubleshot a problem with BetterTouchTool not recognizing the Esc key. D8 theme work: testing date range formatters. I could not figure out how to get date_range_formatter to work. datetime_range_ef worked but did not honor the custom date formats we created. Tried scheduling a COVID-19 vaccine with MyTurn. I am eligible but the closest location is Marin Center POD- MODERNA (10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA 94901) so I declined primarily due to distance. Met with Anne. Departing employee work: Sara H. Lunch: mixed vegetables from frozen with leftover salmon, Guerra's chicken tamale with sides of sour cream and halved cherry tomatoes, water. Met with Eric, Greg, and James J about the funding pages and a dashboard project. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Installed and configured daterange_compact and that seemed to do most of what I wanted. The rest can be preprocessed or handled in the theme template. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Marnee Thai via Uber Eats: imperial rolls, bbq pork, pad see yew, kang ka ree, two thai iced teas. I washed dishes. Afterwards I made us cocktails: fleur de lis. We watched Legion s2:e2 on Hulu Basic Plan. Patrick went to bed. We cuddled for a bit. I arose and did some color palette remastering work for Recharge, discovering Colorpeek and Coolors in the process. Patrick attempted to make candied hazelnuts earlier today but something went wrong and the nuts had burned.
Fri Mar 5, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today on Apple Podcasts then Bill Vicars on YouTube: reviewed fingerspelling which I had casually learned in grade school. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. More date ranges work in Drupal. Patrick today made simple syrup and no-churn chocolate ice cream. Lunch at home with Patrick: leftovers from dinner, water. Short nap. Met with Anne to show her the process for departing employees. Began work on a small project for Grant to convert a historical alumni newsletter. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, raisins, and dried cranberries; water. Met with James H: D8 sprint recap. Committed chrome removal keyboard shortcut work and a fix for resolving disappearing numerals for ordered lists within multicolumns. UCSF COVID-19 town hall zoom. Patrick made us a cocktail called Little Italy. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Spiazzo via Uber Eats: salsiccia pizza, insalata etrusca, water. While eating we watched WandaVision s1:e9 season finale then Superstore s6:e11 on Hulu Basic Plan. I washed dishes. Patrick went to bed. Late meal: leftover salad.
Sat Mar 6, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today on Apple Podcasts then part of Deaf Jam (2011) on Kanopy. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Troubleshot problems with CCC and wrong credentials. Chatted with limbic13. Updates for home websites. Walked to the nearest UPS drop location to return a damaged product. Lunch at home: leftover pizza. Finished updating home websites. Snack: half of a leftover tamale. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Long nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: together we prepared tofu with vegetables in hoisin sauce over buckwheat soba noodles, water. I washed dishes. Cocktail for me only: banana daiquiri. Dessert for Patrick only: homemade chocolate ice cream with homemade candied hazelnut crumble. Afterwards we watched Pete Davidson: Alive From New York on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. Linkchecking for home websites. Late snack: one slice of leftover pizza, water.
Sun Mar 7, 2021
Ran in place to the remainder of Deaf Jam (2011) on Kanopy then Bill Vicars on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. More linkchecking for home websites. Lunch at home: leftover pad see yew, water. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and sliced banana; water. Long nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: Guerra's minestrone soup, leftover bread from Spiazzo's, water. I washed dishes. Dessert: chocolate tart with hazelnut toffee crumble. We watched Chocolat (2000) on Netflix DVD with French 75s. I washed more dishes.
Mon Mar 8, 2021
Ran in place to various videos on YouTube including TED and Joey Yee then Apple News Today podcast. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and diced banana; water. Sprint standup. Completed content migration work for Grant: adapted one of Bob D's alumni newsletters from fall 2006. Also edited new content for Grant. Lunch: leftover buckwheat noodles with vegetables, tamale with diced cherry tomatoes and sour cream, water, a tiny amount of leftover champagne from last night. Followup with HR import to Mailchimp. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Change draft and unpublished styles from pink background to dashed lines. Walked to the mailbox and back. Began playing Where Cards Fall for iOS on my iPad Air. Signed up for myemma.com. D8 work. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas, water, red wine. Afterwards we watched Warrior s2:e4 on Cinemax then The Simpsons s31:e14 on Disney+ then part of Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2013) on Netflix. Patrick went to bed and we cuddled for a while. I arose. Continued playing Where Cards Fall. Late snack: mini pretzels; no-salt, no-oil popcorn; water.
Tue Mar 9, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today podcast then Joey Yee videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, blueberries, and diced banana; water. Sprint standup. Content work: a QBI event to post for Carolina L, person page and orgcharts for Alesia W. Patrick made drop biscuits, and we each had one. Lunch: leftover risotto, another biscuit, water. Nap. Read CSS Layout News 293. Signed up for Constant Contact. Quickly found in their community forum and was disappointed to learn that they have no rss-to-email feature like Mailchimp. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries; water. Today at 3:11 p.m. I received an email from KP saying I was eligible to schedule a COVID-19 vaccine appointment. Twenty minutes later I was set with my appointment for shot #1. On our entertainment server I reconfigured CCC to not turn on the laptop screen at the start of every scheduled job. Dinner at home with Patrick: meatloaf hamburgers, water. Dessert: Patrick had a chocolate-banana-cinnamon milkshake. Afterwards we watched Legion s2:e3 on Hulu Basic Plan. Patrick went to bed. I joined and we cuddled for a while. I arose. Late snack: corn off the cob from frozen with pepper.
Wed Mar 10, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today podcast then Joey Yee videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, blueberries, and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. D8 work. Posted an event for Carolina L. Lunch: large salad, biscuit, water. UFD prep in Mailchimp. Edited the UFD for Grant. Completed Mailchimp UFD prep. Responded to a website migration question from Lisa C. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, raisins, dried cranberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: garlic shrimp scampi with quinoa spaghetti, biscuit, white wine, water. I washed dishes. Afterwards we watched nine chapters of Hunt for the Wilderpeople on Hulu Basic Plan. Patrick went to bed. Recharge Medical work: color palette research and selection, font set research and selection. Late snack: mixed vegetables from frozen with pepper.
Thu Mar 11, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today podcast then Joey Yee videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and blueberries; water. Sprint standup. D8 work. Helped Grant with last-minute edits and staging of the UFD then he published the page. Snack: one large navel orange. Met with Anne. No lunch. Followup with Erika C and Marley Q about an HR request for SLY. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blackberries; water. Followup with a security issue. Letterhead followup for Lisa K with Lisa D. Delivered UFD email. Followup with Tucker from myemma about setting up a new account. Dinner at home with Patrick: large salad with ranch dressing, half biscuit, water. I washed dishes. Afterwards we finished watching Hunt for the Wilderpeople on Hulu Basic Plan then Warrior s2:e5 on Cinemax. Patrick went to bed and I cuddled with him for a while. I arose. Late mini meal: leftover garlic shrimp scampi with quinoa spaghetti, water.
Fri Mar 12, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today podcast then Joey Yee videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and blueberries; water. Sprint standup. Team chat about degrees label on person pages. Zoom meeting: Creating a UCSF Virtual Tour: Communicators Network Lunch and Learn with Sara S. Lunch: large salad with ranch dressing, water. Got my first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine via our health insurance provider. Patrick rented a Getaround car and dropped me off. Vaccination stations were set up inside a gymnasium at Turk and Stanyan. There was a long line but I didn't need to wait in it. Maybe they were standbys? Inside it was spacious, calm, orderly, and organized. A health care provider named Fred gave me my shot. I received a vaccinated sticker, an info sheet, a vaccination card, and a free mask with a logo on it. We returned home. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and sliced banana; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Sunset Reservoir Brewing Company via DoorDash: fried chicken sandwich, fish and chips. White wine from Corinna, water. I washed dishes. We watched Superstore s6:e12 on Hulu Basic Plan then continued Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2013) on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed.
Sat Mar 13, 2021
Woke around 1:00 a.m. and had an idea and arose to type it into my notetaking app. Returned to sleep after awhile. Woke to a sore arm due to yesterday's COVID-19 vaccine shot #1. Ran in place to NPR Up First and SF Chronicle Fifth and Mission podcasts then Joey Yee videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, sliced banana, and blackberries; water. Patrick recently received his tax refund that was due to him last year. There was a strange delay because the IRS requested paperwork from us but they requested—and I re-sent them—paperwork that was in the original return and several months later they put the refund through. So annoying. Chatted with Patrick and Tina over SMS/iMessage. Patrick and I virtually attended Writers Read: SAS Reading Series 4, part of the 18th Annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival on YouTube. Delivery from Tartine Sunset via Uber Eats: egg sandwich, cheesecake slice, frangipane croissant, apple hand pie. I ate the egg sandwich. Patrick ate the croissant. We saved the rest for later. Folded some laundry that Patrick had washed earlier. I listened to Something You Should Know 216 while doing it. Long nap needed probably due to last night's interrupted sleep and fatigue and feeling colder than usual from yesterday's COVID-19 vaccine shot #1. Skipped 2nd oatmeal today. Dinner at home with Patrick: falafel in pita from box mix with cucumber-mint-yogurt sauce, water, white wine. While eating we watched Literary Luminaries of the Violet Quill on YouTube, also part of Saints and Sinners Festival. I washed dishes. Dessert: I had three bites of the apple hand pie that Patrick had saved for me after eating the rest earlier today. We shared part of the cheesecake slice. Watched Legion s2:e4 on Hulu Basic Plan with Patrick. Patrick went to bed. I washed more dishes. Still feeling a bit of post-vaccine fog. Updates for home websites. Continued playing Where Cards Fall on my iPad Air. Late snack: carrot sticks, celery sticks, Cedar's garlic hummus, blue corn tortilla chips, water. Washed more dishes. Earlier today Patrick prepared a pizza dough, letting it rise overnight.
Sun Mar 14, 2021
Daylight savings spring forward. Sore arm from COVID-19 vaccine shot #1 is still sore but a little less than yesterday. Ran in place to SF Chronicle Fifth and Mission podcasts then Joey Yee videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, sliced banana, and blackberries; water. Cut my hair, cleaned the bathroom, showered. Changed clocks: the Pottery Barn mantel clock and the clock on my micro four thirds camera. Patrick must have already changed the clock by the entry. Everything else changes automatically, I think. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, sliced banana; water. Patrick and I chatted with Tina all day on SMS/iMessage. Snack: carrot sticks, celery sticks, Cedar's garlic hummus, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: NYT cheesy pan pizza, red wine, water. Patrick used Caputo 00. It reminded us of Pizza Hut pan pizza. I washed dishes, seasoned the cast iron pan, and performed a block oil treatment on our cutting board. Cocktails: Patrick made us mezcal margaritas. We watched about half of Spinning Plates on Netflix DVD. The disc was damaged part way through and we couldn't make it work. We decided to return the disc to Netflix and order a replacement. We finished watching Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2013) on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. We cuddled for a while. I arose and washed dishes. Continued playing Where Cards Fall on my iPad Air.
Mon Mar 15, 2021
Sore arm from COVID-19 vaccine shot #1 is almost gone. Ran in place to Apple News Today and Something You Should Know on Apple Podcasts. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. D8 work all day. Lunch: ramen from package with carrot, egg, tofu, mixed greens; water. Altered a sign template in Powerpoint for Marley. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Today Patrick made two flavors of no-churn ice cream: cherry and cherry with hazelnut crunch. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries; water. Helped Michael B with a question about formatting text and workflow with Constant Contact. Patrick also made two Southern pecan buttermilk cakes. We each tried a small slice, and it is delicious. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Gaspare's: chicken parmagiana for Patrick, chicken piccata for me, caesar salad and garlic bread to share, water. I washed dishes. We watched Legion s2:e5 on Hulu Basic Plan. Patrick went to bed. We cuddled for a while. I arose. Voluntarily finished D8 work to implement date to be determined because if I didn't I was going to lose my train of thought. Late meal: leftover caesar salad, one leftover beef ravioli, water.
Tue Mar 16, 2021
No more arm soreness from COVID-19 vaccine shot #1. A small bruise remains. Ran in place to Apple News Today and NPR's Up First podcasts then Joey Yee videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, blackberries, and blueberries; water. Sprint standup. Read CSS Layout News 294. D8 work all day. Early lunch: leftover chicken piccata, leftover garlic bread, leftover cole slow, water. Troubleshot problems with internet which became a 90-minute outage, which very rarely happens with Sonic. Restarting the router twice and the ONT once failed to resolve the problem. I called Sonic after about 40 minutes, was on hold for 15 minutes, indicated I wanted a callback. The internet returned about 90 minutes after the outage began. I received my callback shortly thereafter: they had encountered a DNS issue. Fletch visited to pick up some slices of buttermilk cake, and we chatted for a while outside with masks from a distance. It was good to see him and chat. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: green lentils with saffron brown rice, water. I had a glass of red wine. I washed dishes. Dessert: homemade Southern pecan buttermilk cake with homemade cherry ice cream. Together we played Where Cards Fall on my iPad Air for a while. Afterwards we watched Warrior s2:e6 on Cinemax. Patrick went to bed. I washed more dishes. Late snack: medium butter leaf lettuce salad with sliced mushrooms and caesar dressing, blue corn tortilla chips with Cedar's garlic hummus, water.
Wed Mar 17, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Hidden Brain podcasts. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and diced pear; water. Sprint standup. D8 work all day. Patrick and I visited with Kerry and Mom Ryan for the first time since October 18 and November 1. Patrick rented a Getaround car and drove over. We met in the courtyard with masks and distancing. They both received their second doses of Pfizer four weeks ago. We gave Patrick's mom some slices of Southern pecan buttermilk cake, a birthday card, a new iPhone SE 2nd generation in red, a new (faster) phone charger, and a new case to fit the new phone. I attempted to perform the phone setup, but we couldn't connect to the building's wifi and the cellular signal in the garden was almost non-existent. The phone had a low charge and we found an outdoor outlet, but that wasn't the most important part of the problem. After failing with multiple tries, Patrick and I took it home. I backed it up to multiple devices, performed the setup, swapped the sim card, and Patrick was on his way to return it to her. Lunch at home: I made for myself black rice noodles with a tofu and veggie stir-fry, water. Resolved D7 styling problems with details-summary. Dinner at home with Patrick: I prepared cheddar veggie burgers with mayo and butter leaf lettuce, crinkle-cut fries, sweet potato puffs. Water to drink. Setup and prep for Patrick's event. We attended Queer Flannery O'Connor Award Winners, part of the Perfectly Queer reading series (co-hosted?) by Rick and Wayne G. The other two award winners were Lori O and Anne R. They each read briefly from their books, then discussed how the award has influenced their careers, whether they knew about O'Connor's racist attitudes before winning the award, and how they view the award in this light. It was a fine discussion, and everyone was having so much fun they went 22 minutes over the scheduled 60 minutes. We undid our setup. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes then had dessert: a small slice of buttermilk cake. I also gave a bunch of slices to the upstairs neighbors. Updates for home websites. Fixed some minor issues with Patrick's website: resolved incomplete paths in a favicon site manifest, removed unneeded sourcemap references in asset files provided by the CMS, adjusted the pull exclude list. Today after avoiding using BetterTouchTool for a long time because of a strange problem in which it would disable my Esc key, I began troubleshooting the problem again. I figured out how to disable GoldenChaos: click the Preset menu in the top right corner, then uncheck the Active checkbox for GoldenChaos. Late meal: butter leaf lettuce salad with sliced mushrooms, grated mozzarella, ranch dressing; water.
Thu Mar 18, 2021
Ran in place to episodes of Apple News Today and TED Talks Daily. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and blackberries; water. Virtual sprint standup. D8 work all day. D7 work: pink bg. Content work for Cheryl C: COI. Lunch at home: medium salad with mixed greens, sliced mushrooms, diced cucumber, sliced grape tomatoes, grated carrot, yogurt dressing; water. Investigated a style problem: caption wrong width on microsite slideshows. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries; water. Resolved a permissions issue for Anne and Josh. Updated fallback passwords. Snack: one mandarin orange. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Marnee Thai: bbq chicken, yellow banana (plantain) curry with beef, fried fish cakes, brown (red) rice, thai iced teas, water. I washed dishes. Patrick had dessert: cherry hazelnut crunch ice cream. We finished watching Spinning Plates on Netflix DVD. I loved the film. Afterwards we watched standup comedy on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. Removed and reinstalled GoldenChaos for BetterTouchTool. Spent some time reconfiguring BTT. Troubleshot problems in which BTT would not save many various settings after I set them: custom date format, disabling triggers, etc.
Fri Mar 19, 2021
Ran in place to episodes of Apple News Today and TED Talks Daily. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and blueberries; water. Virtual sprint standup. Handled departing employee tasks for Cynthia Z (Elbert B). Emma testing and D8 work all day. Snack: blue corn tortilla chips with hummus. Calpoison meeting with Anne, Paul, and Jenna. Lunch: leftover shrimp pad thai, leftover fried fish cakes, water. UCSF town hall. Dinner at home with Patrick: green lentils redux with bacon, water. We watched Superstore s6:e13 on Hulu Basic Plan then Warrior s2:e7 on Cinemax. Late snack: two mandarin oranges.
Sat Mar 20, 2021
Slept in some. Ran in place to TED Talks. Breakfast at home with Patrick: delivery from Craftsman and Wolves: kouign amann and frittata breakfast sandwich for Patrick, alfajores kouign amann (AKA) and rebel within for me. Patrick made us Tazo chai. He also ordered us a loaf of pain maison to consume later. Walked to the mailbox and back to mail the Netflix DVD. Weeded in the front of the house then again in the area outside the living room window in the back of the house. Successfully updated the firmware on my old Panasonic DMC-G6 camera to version 1.2. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blackberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover curry and red rice for Patrick, leftover split peas with brown rice for me, water. Afterwards we watched The Falcon and the Winter Soldier s1:e1 on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. Late meal: small salad, water. Later snack: no-oil, no-salt popcorn, a small piece of chocolate, water.
Sun Mar 21, 2021
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Ran in place to a TED talk then an hour of Greyhound on Apple TV+. Shower. Lunch: leftover split peas with ham, water. Long nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp rolls (in the style of Woodhouse Fish Company's crab and lobster rolls) on slices of Craftsman and Wolves sourdough, water. I washed dishes. Cocktails for me only: experiments with homemade cherry liqueur syrup: it curdled in Godiva liqueur so we used just bourbon and ice and that fared better. Dessert: Patrick's no-churn cherry and hazelnut crunch ice cream Watched Warrior s2:e8 on Cinemax. Then I continued watching Greyhound. Then together we watched Michael Che Matters on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. I finished watching Greyhound and loved it despite the story being nearly entirely action. Occasionally encountered problems reaching github, so I restarted my computer. Updated printouts of the medic alert info I carry in my wallet and phone holder. Late snack: celery sticks, multigrain and multiseed crackers, hummus, water.
Mon Mar 22, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and TED talks. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and diced pear; water. Reviewed broken links in Siteimprove. Handled a logo request from Katie M in Alumni Relations. Had lots of trouble signing in to my Keeper Security account. I eventually got it to work but don't know how I did it. Handled spam: someone attempted to sign me up for an account on a site called Job Blaze, and I received seven unsolicited emails before I put a stop to it (I hope). Changed draft chrome toggle keyboard shortcut from Ctrl+D to Ctrl+Z. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Fixes for spacing and getting images to line up with text better, applied only to CPCS so as not to potentially break things elsewhere. Lunch: mixed greens with leftover shrimp salad, water. Continued playing Where Cards Fall. Responded to a request from Angie G about nameplates. D8 work the rest of the day. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken cacciatore, water. Red wine for me only. I washed dishes. We watched Warrior s2:e9 on Cinemax then standup comedy clips on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I washed more dishes. Voluntarily did more D8 work because if I didn't I'd lose my train of thought.
Tue Mar 23, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts then Bill Vicars on YouTube. Sprint standup. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. D8 work all day. 1:1 with Eric. Lunch at home: half order of leftover split peas and bacon, medium salad with lemon poppyseed dressing, water. Continued playing Where Cards Fall. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Read CSS Layout News 295. Began work on a Qualtrics survey for Eric: telework. Attended two UCSF town halls: Time of Remembrance then the COVID-19: The Path Forward. Dinner at home with Patrick: New York Times' cast-iron pan pizza, this time with all-purpose flower instead of Caputo 00. Toppings were marinara, sauteed mushrooms, arugula, grated mozzarella. Patrick described the Caputo 00 version as "more Italian, more like focaccia" and the all-purpose flour version as "still like focaccia but more American." Patrick washed dishes. Cocktails over Zoom with Chris and Andy: we drank mezcal margaritas, they drank red wine. We used the trial version of an app called Camo to improve video quality by using my iPhone 12 mini as a webcam connected to my MacBook Pro. It worked as expected in only 8 minutes of setup. (I think I had to quit and restart Zoom for it to see the new webcam device since I started Zoom before Camo.) We chatted about San Pellegrino flavored sparkling sodas, COVID-19 vaccines and the states of our worlds, pizza, cocktails, Maui, and Anza-Borrego before separately watching a documentary about Flannery O'Connor on PBS that we had thought was going to be presented live but which seemed to turn out to stream on demand. Patrick got too tired to finish it, though, so we'll continue another evening. I washed dishes then did some tidying and trash management. Late snack: mixed vegetables from frozen, water. Encountered again the problem of my Esc key failing to work because of BetterTouchTool. Had to restart the computer.
Wed Mar 24, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts then Bill Vicars on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. D7 work: alter pink background to indicate draft status with followup communication to stakeholders. Qualtrics work all day. Troubleshot problems with home backups: the volume could not be repaired, exit code 8, error -69845. Lunch at home: rice-corn spaghetti noodle soup with leftover shrimp broth, sliced carrots, arugula, grilled chicken from frozen; water. Responded to a logo usage review request from Katie M. Responded to an image request from Julie R. Dinner at home with Patrick: roasted veggie and refried bean giant mini tacos, water. Afterwards Patrick had cherry ice cream with chocolate chunks for dessert. Continued playing Where Cards Fall. Patrick and I played Jeopardy for iOS briefly. Then we watched Warrior s2:e10 on Cinemax then standup comedy on Just For Laughs on YouTube. Today Patrick received notice of an excellent review from IndieReader for his book If We Were Electric. Patrick went to bed. Today's backups problem was due to corruption on a source Toshiba Canvio Slim external hard drive. I troubleshot it by using Disk First Aid in Disk Utility to check the drive for errors, but it was unable to be repaired. I resolved the problem by confirming that my onsite and offsite backups for that drive were secure, then erased the source external hard drive, then restored it from onsite backup. No more problems.
Thu Mar 25, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts then various videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Various task and email followup. Some D8 work. Lunch: leftover taco. Qualtrics work. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blackberries; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: soba noodle soup with miso broth and veggies, water. I washed dishes. We watched Legion s2:e6 on Hulu Basic Plan then standup comedy on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I continued watching YouTube awhile. Late small meal: small bean and roasted veggies taco with mozzarella and mixed greens, water. Dessert: three heaping spoonfuls of Patrick's cherry ice cream. I washed more dishes. San Francisco announced today that 50 and older can receive the COVID-19 vaccine on April 1 and with 16 and older following on April 15.
Fri Mar 26, 2021
Cesar Chavez holiday. Ran in place to Apple News Today, Fifth and Mission, and NPR Up First podcasts then various videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Removed identifying labels from grocery delivery paper bags using a stinky permanent marker then left them outside so the smell would dissipate. Tried to figure out from San Francisco Recology's website how to recycle or trash clothing that isn't suitable for reuse, eventually found that it's okay to go in the landfill bin. I looked for better options, but no place made it easy. I found one place that sent you an 11 x 11 x 20 box with a prepaid shipping label that you could fill with textiles and they would handle them appropriately, but it cost $120!—nope. Patrick said something to the effect that if they can't make it easy to do something more ethical then it deserves to go to the landfill, and I have to agree. Lunch: small bean and roasted veggies taco with mozzarella and mixed greens, water. Attempted to figure out how to return an All-Clad fry pan under warranty. There is no website method to initiate a warranty return—you have to call. The recording at their 1-800-255-2523 number said their hours were Monday to Friday 9 to 12 and 1 to 4 Eastern. They're open only six hours per day, optimized only for people on the East Coast. So their phone support ends at 1:00 p.m. Pacific, and I had attempted to call a little after 1:00 p.m. and was rather dumbfounded that for the four remaining business hours on the West Coast they are simply not available. I guess for some reason they can't hire more than one person to provide customer service. Upon hearing this news, Patrick said, "Well, I guess we're not buying All-Clad anymore." Recycled Mom Ryan's old iPhone 5s via Apple. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Trash management: shredded lots of old mailing labels. Vacuuming. Snack: pretzels, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick grilled boudin which he special-ordered from New Orleans. We had that in addition to delivery from Brenda's Meat and Three: molasses-black-walnut iced coffee and red beans and rice for Patrick, kale and chicory salad for me, crawfish beignet to share, water for me. Everything was great, even the beignet, which was covered in a red spice which we believe was paprika and which was not spicy. The crawfish inside was a bit spicy, but I could handle it. The red beans and rice was too spicy for me; I had only a bite. The salad I thought was perfect. The sugar cane dressing and sliced grapes provide a sweetness to balance the slight bitterness of the chicory. The coarsely chopped almonds provide a contrasting texture to the squishy grapes and the soft cow's milk feta. Everything was chopped or sliced to an appropriate and aesthetically pleasing size. So healthy, too. Afterwards we watched Superstore s6:e14 and e15 on Hulu Basic Plan then Falcon and Winter Soldier s1:e2 on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. Late small meal: leftover kale and chicory salad, water. I washed a few dishes. Troubleshot problems with CCC: "The device that hosts the source network volume is not available." and "Some non-critical errors were reported during the backup task." I resolved the problem by manually unmounting volumes on the computer with CCC on it, then restarting both the source and destination computers, then on the source computer renaming the computer in sharing preferences to remove a dash and a number. Continued playing Where Cards Fall. Started playing Patterned. Both of these Apple Arcade games are very relaxing puzzlers, and I recommend them.
Sat Mar 27, 2021
Ran in place while learning ASL for fun via Bill Vicars on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Lunch: two kinds of corn, rice, and quinoa spaghetti (because one box was nearly empty) with leftover cacciatore sauce to which I added arugula and leftover roasted veggies. Water to drink. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Underdogs Tres via Uber Eats: chips, extra crispy al pastor quesadilla for Patrick, baja burrito with no salsa rojo for me, agua frescas for both. Patrick also ordered a side of pollo asado to use in a future recipe. While waiting, we had mezcal margaritas and I began our four-part process for completing our taxes. After dinner I washed dishes. We watched Legion s2:e7 on Hulu Basic Plan. Patrick went to bed. I washed more dishes then continued playing Where Cards Fall on my iPad Air. Late snack: leftover burrito and chips, water.
Sun Mar 28, 2021
Ran in place to podcasts and videos on YouTube and TED. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Continued preparing tax filings. Cut my hair, showered. Lunch at home with Patrick: shakshuka, partly using leftover sauce from cacciatore. Water to drink. Nap. Continued tax prep. Dinner at home with Patrick: tasso, andouille, and chicken jambalaya, water. Dessert: chocolate with nutella for Patrick, a strawberry popsicle for me. I washed dishes. We watched about half of Stalker (1979) on Netflix DVD. Patrick went to bed. I watched various videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blackberries; water. Late snack: one large navel orange.
Mon Mar 29, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today podcast, then Bill Vicars on YouTube, then Joey Yee on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and blueberries; water. Sprint standup. D7 styling fix for details summary to resolve text too small error in Google Search Console. Handled a logo request from a student. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Lunch: pork ramen with vegetables, water. Person field inventory work for Eric. Disconnected five shared pages for Nicole for BP. Dinner at home with Patrick: beef stew from scratch, water. Red wine for me. I washed dishes. Together we played Patterned and Jeopardy on the iPad Air. Patrick went to bed. I cuddled with him a while. I played Framed on the iPad Air.
Tue Mar 30, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts and Joey Yee on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. No sprint standup. Troubleshot error "upload failed this file wasn't uploaded because the specified path wasn't found on the server or permission was denied" which occurred with OneDrive after saving a new Excel document to my OneDrive folder from Excel for macOS. After several minutes of trying to figure out what went wrong, I found that the file had indeed been uploaded. What a waste of time. Began creating a document summarizing technology limits of things at UCSF, such as maximum storage space per mailbox, maximum attachment filesize, maximum number of Zoom participants in a standard Zoom account, and things like that. Today was warm enough for me to sit in the back yard for a while, despite occasional cool breezes. Lunch: two small caesar salad wraps with sliced cherry tomatoes and toasted chickpeas, water. 1:1 with Eric. Continued work on the person field inventory. Read CSS Layout News 296. Edited town hall copy and selected proposed images for Grant. Prepped the town hall html email in Mailchimp. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, and blueberries; water. Responded to a permissions request. Dinner at home with Patrick: orange cauliflower quesadillas with homemade parsley salsa verde, water. Red wine for me. I washed dishes. We continued watching Stalker on Netflix DVD then stopped after a while and watched The Simpsons s31:e15 Screenless on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. I cuddled with him for a while then arose. While watching Stalker, I had been thinking to myself that I hadn't seen this bad and slow a film since Solaris, and then it all made sense when I found that they were both made by Andrei Tarkovsky.
Wed Mar 31, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts and Joey Yee and Bill Vicars (second viewing of Lesson 1) on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Gallup discussion over Zoom with Alesia W, Liana C, and comms team. Worked in the back yard for part of today. D8 work all day: resolve issues following James's image credit and other changes yesterday. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself brodo di carne with fusilli, arugula, coarsely quartered mushrooms, orange cauliflower, and diced parsley. Water to drink. Encountered what I think is a Google Chrome redraw bug that I think wasted hours of my time while troubleshooting CSS transforms because I could not figure out why my code was not behaving as I expected. Eventually I decided to examine the same behavior in Firefox, where I found no problem to exist. I then began finding and installing identical or corresponding add-ons and their configuration in preparation to switch from Chrome to Firefox—or at least eventually be nimble in both. Dinner at home with Patrick: asparagus-pesto lasagna, caesar salad, water, red wine. I washed dishes. Afterwards we finished watching Stalker (1979) on Netflix DVD. We both don't understand why this film has such high ratings.