August 2021
Summary: SF restores mask mandate for indoor public spaces even if fully vaccinated, delta surge model suggests a return to baseline in mid-October
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Sun Aug 1, 2021
Ran in place to catching up with Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Rode L bus to the Castro. Walked around the Castro. Lunched at Cafe de Casa: milanesa with french fries, perrier: $18. The meal is delicious and more than I can eat, so I take part of it to go. The fries are skinny, crisp, and perfectly salted. The milanesa chicken was super flat with a sturdy, crunchy, dark golden brown crust. Walked around more before riding L bus home. Nap. Around when I woke, Patrick went to bed. Late meal: I ate the remainder of my sandwich and had some leftover gumbo and rice. Water to drink.
Mon Aug 2, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV then to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Handled whitecoat unsubs. Responded to a reuse request from Lisa C for a Kidney Project video. All day: listserv documentation in preparation for requesting super-lists. Requested the closure of a list created with the wrong name. Lots of task followup. Lunch at home with Patrick: leftover gumbo and rice and garlic bread. Prepped for a landlord visit tomorrow to perform exterior maintenance on the house. Dinner at home with Patrick: spaghetti with arugula and sausage, water. I washed dishes. Patrick made me a lemon-basil vodka spritzer. We watched Trombone Shorty then Being Canadian on Hoopla. Patrick went to bed. I joined him and slept for a while before arising three hours later (sort of biphasic sleep). Read news. Late snack: dill and cream cheese on warmed naan, previously frozen; one fig newman; water. Returned to bed around 2:30 a.m.
Tue Aug 3, 2021
Seven Bay Area counties including San Francisco require masks for public indoor spaces even for fully vaccinated people after only recommending them last month. Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV then to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water. Virtual sprint standup. html email template work all day. Today the landlord stopped by for some repairs: kitchen ceiling patch-up, back yard garden work by hired help, and exterior touch-up painting to the house. Lunch at home: large salad with basil and mixed greens, diced green bell pepper, sliced grape tomatoes, guacamole, and ranch dressing; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: tofu, red pepper, and asparagus stir-fry in black bean sauce with steamed rice, water. I washed dishes. Afterwards I made myself a banana-lychee cocktail, and we watched Earth at Night in Color s1:e3 on Apple TV+ followed by Behind the Attraction s1:e1 (Jungle Cruise) and s1:e2 (The Haunted Mansion) and The Simpsons: The Good, The Bart, and the Loki on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. I joined him for a few hours. Biphasic sleep. Awoke. Updates for home devices and websites, including iOS and iPadOS 14.7.1. Late small meal: leftover black bean tofu and rice, water. Returned to bed after about 3 hours.
Wed Aug 4, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV then to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced peach; water. Sprint standup. Orgchart and related web page updates prep. Took Esther S's security quiz. Read CSS Layout News 314. Requested three new listservs—the start of more super-lists. Followup with Vince M and Alex R to clarify expected behavior of when messages are quarantined and when they are tagged with an external sender notice. Restored the back yard privacy screen and our patio furniture after yesterday's back yard cleaning and painting by the landlord. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a large salad with mixed greens, basil, green bell pepper, grape tomatoes, shredded mozzarella, celery, and ranch dressing. Water to drink. Email campaign followup. Followup with Jon R about the postponement of the white coat ceremony. Followup with Mitra B and Cheryl C about orgchart and web page updates status. Edited the PharmD home page for Joel. Unbifurcated the commencement page for Jon R. Fled Mailchimp by archiving and deleting audiences and users. Dinner at home with Patrick: split peas and rice with sausage, water. Patrick washed dishes. Afterwards we watched Amy Schumer Presents Sam Morril: Positive Influence via Comedy Central on Paramount+ then Schmigadoon! s1:e4 on Apple TV+. Patrick went to bed. Weeded Firefox bookmarks. Updated a D8 dev site for Recharge after a long period of no work.
Thu Aug 5, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV then to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water. Sprint standup. Prepped a notice to bulk email and html email senders about putting our Mailchimp account on ice. Followup with Carly K at Campaign Monitor to confirm the discount for us and QBI. White Coat postponement html email build. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself fried rice with stir-fried broccolini with ginger and garlic, water. Continued and sent the html email. Attempted to add a new person page for Rupa T and failed due to a privacy setting. Pushed live orgchart and related page changes. Made config changes to listserv to set some email addresses as owner quiet rather than owner. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Mahalo via Uber Eats: potstickers; portuguese sausage musubi for Patrick; chicken katsu musubi for me; half and half plate for Patrick: chicken katsu, kalua pork, white rice, macaroni salad; half and half plate for me: bbq beef, fried shrimp, brown rice, macaroni salad. Patrick washed dishes. I made myself a mezcal mule using a Emma Janzen's recipe in Epicurious—a tad too sweet but otherwise very tasty. We browsed video games on Apple Arcade but didn't play any except I played Frogger in Toy Town for a bit. We watched Behind the Attraction s1:e3 (Star Tours) on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. I oiled the cutting board. Recently I received a gift from UCSF: a 7-inch-diameter, 1.3-liter, 1.5-quart Le Creuset marmite in a blue that I think they call Marseille. It's lovely. I unloaded photos from my iPhone 12 mini and uploaded them to Flickr. Updated my medic alert info I carry with me.
Fri Aug 6, 2021
Ran in place to Fifth and Mission podcast via Apple TV then Bill Vicars on YouTube on my MacBook Pro. Noticed today error "The item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store" on Apple TV. Problem happens when attempting to browse details for any podcast to which I am not yet subscribed. Subscribed podcasts play as expected. Force restarting the Podcasts app did not fix it. Restarting Apple TV did not fix it. Logging out of iCloud and logging back in did not fix it. Then the Finish Home Setup process (Add This Apple TV to Your Home) failed to finish. Turning Bluetooth off then on again resulted in Setup Failed after a long time trying and failing to connect. I restarted Apple TV. I tried finishing home setup process again on my iPhone. Now it doesn't even get as far as trying to connect. After some digging online I reinstalled the Apple Home app on my iPhone. (I had removed it long ago because I never used it.) Setup Failed (-6753) again, but now in Apple TV in Airplay and HomeKit settings it says My Home is connected. First problem still remains, though: Item Not Available when attempting to view details for any podcast new to me. Gave up for now. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and diced nectarine; water. Today Patrick visited with his mom while Kerry was away. No sprint standup. Handled some review inbox items. Lots of Siteimprove policy work. UCSF town hall. We learn from SFDPH data from July 28 that surge modeling predicts the current delta surge to peak in late August with hospitalizations peaking in early- to mid-September and a return to baseline in mid-October. Lunch and dinner at home: leftovers from last night, water. I posted a few items we didn't need online to give away. After Patrick returned we watched Ted Lasso s2:e3 on Apple TV+. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: one carrot and a few mini pretzel sticks with hummus, water. Dried tart cherries.
Sat Aug 7, 2021
Ran in place to Bill Vicars on YouTube on my MacBook Pro. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water. Gave away things we didn't need online. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a large salad with mixed greens, green bell pepper, carrot, mushrooms, roasted pumpkin seeds, mozzarella, and blue cheese dressing. Water to drink. More giving away things. Found an iPhone 3GS (Patrick's?) and packaged it for recycling via Apple. Dinner at home by myself: large quesadilla, water. Continued playing Little Orpheus. Today Patrick visited with his mom while Kerry was away. After Patrick returned I made myself a cocktail (Kahlua, whipped cream vodka, milk, ice) and we watched Moonlighting s3:e13 (Maddie's Turn to Cry) on Netflix DVD. Patrick went to bed.
Sun Aug 8, 2021
No run this morning. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Attended Patrick's panel in the OutWrite festival live on Facebook. Midmorning splurge: delivery from Tartine ordered directly: two breakfast sandwiches with bacon, hot chai latte with whole milk for me, frangipane croissant for Patrick, ginger cookie for later, and summer ceylon tea for a gift. Patrick washed dishes. I deep-cleaned the microwave interior. More giving away things. Patrick took a nap. I wrapped a gift. Resolved a small problem with Patrick's website: forced http to https. Troubleshot network problems with my work computer not seeing our entertainment and file server computer. Removing 8.8.8.8 from my DNS settings seems to have resolved it. Shopped for new bed sheets online with Patrick. Processed things in the garage to get rid of or sell. Spent an hour or so troubleshooting problems with calendar notifications that would not go away. Solution: turn off all default notification periods and turn off Time To Leave feature and delete all the problematic calendar items. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie burgers from frozen, french fries with ketchup, water. Patrick washed dishes. Dessert: Tillamook peaches and cream with a half of a Tartine ginger cookie. We watched Moonlighting s3:e14 (I am Curious... Maddie) on Netflix DVD then Schmigadoon! s1:e5 on Apple TV+. Patrick went to bed, and I joined him for a few minutes of cuddle time before arising. Late meal: large salad with tomato, mushroom, red onion, roasted almonds, ranch dressing; water.
Mon Aug 9, 2021
Ran in place while continuing to play Little Orpheus. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Resolved a styling problem new with our recent upgrade of CKEditor which had defaulted to Courier. I used the monospace font stack from systemfontstack.com. Worked with James on webedit: after setting a link, the frame jumps to the top unexpectedly. Responded to a request from Liana C about Intune enrollment. Worked with Leslie F and Anne B on local nav for PharmD-PhD, including some styling fixes. Sent a request to Gina N at QBI about forcing http to https. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself tonkatsu-flavored ramen with carrot, carrot tops, mushrooms, mixed greens, hard-boiled egg, grape tomatoes, and green onions; water. I used only half of the powder packet and only half of the sauce packet, saving the other halves for a later ramen meal. Worked with Erik W on edits to Enroll Your Mobile Device in Intune Company Portal. Updated occurrences of urls to QBI to change them from http to https in all our websites. Submitted a request to IT to delete an unneeded listserv after Rodney confirmed. Redirected followup with QBI email campaign whitelisting to Alexa R. Resolved a problem with personal cloud backup caused by a recent external hard drive failure. Adjusted list configs and documented them in our list of listservs spreadsheet. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Dinner at home with Patrick: crispy tofu burritos, water. Afterwards I made myself a no-salt margarita and we watched Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi s1:e2 on Hulu Basic Plan then 18 minutes of Black is King on Disney+ then various YouTube videos. Patrick went to bed, and I joined him for cuddles a while.
Tue Aug 10, 2021
Ran in place to Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer with Joel Kim Booster from 2018. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Virtual sprint standup. More documenting and adjusting listserv configs. Requested a test dist list to see if I can use a dist list to forward to a listserv so that it has a longer and clearer name. Zoomed with James because I couldn't reproduce his fix for the frame jumping problem when creating a link. He will do a fresh db pull and again try to reproduce. He could not reproduce. I did a fresh db pull and could not reproduce the fix in Firefox but I could in Safari and Chrome. We Zoomed again. I turned off all Firefox add-ons, and that did not resolve it. Eventually James figured out that it was one line of CSS causing the problem. He's definitely a smart one. Patrick made cornbread today using a recipe found on the internet. We had a small bite, and he later had a larger slice with his lunch. I ran errands (mailed the iPhone 3GS to Apple, stopped at the drug store and liquor store) and lunch to go from King of Thai Noodle, placing an order in person via my voice while masked: pork pad kee mao not spicy, thai iced tea. I also ordered crispy wonton skins but they told me they were out. Orgchart work for Anne: EE. Continued reading Reimagining Collaboration. I postponed my Filoli gathering with Chris D and Eric S due to the ongoing COVID-19 Delta surge. I don't get a refund, but I'll consider it a donation to a worthy organization. We had decided to gather and had ordered our tickets 10 days ago, and the COVID stats just kept getting worse and for SF are now about the same as the worst we experienced last winter. The vaccines have helped alleviate some anxiety, but Patrick and I are still very cautious and not wanting to get COVID even if we won't be hospitalized or die since there's still a chance of ongoing or long-term health problems or of unwittingly passing it to others more vulnerable than us. I guess we are settling in for another few months of self-isolation as much as we can. Dinner at home with Patrick: creamy tagliatelle with mushrooms, water. I had a glass of white wine. Afterwards we watched Earth at Night in Color s1:e4 on Apple TV+ then Behind the Attraction s1:e4 on Disney+. We continued playing Little Orpheus: balloons and air ducts. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. Troubleshot and resolved problems with a CCC backup script due to recent restart of devices on the network. Late snack: whole wheat pita with hummus, water. Prepared more things for proper disposal: expired medications, used cooking oil, fluorescent light bulbs. Organized stuff. Weeded paper business cards.
Wed Aug 11, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Troubleshot a deploy failure. Sprint standup and Gallup results meeting with team. Read CSS Layout News 315. Followup with a listserv deletion request. Lunch at home: ramen (half packets like last time) with carrot, celery, green onions, crispy tofu; water. Spent nearly all of the day updating statistical content and improving accessibility for some presentation templates in our identity site. Continued reading Reimagining Collaboration. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Park Gyros: chicken kebab plate for Patrick, salmon kebab plate for me, spanakopita, mini turkish delight. We also ordered rice pudding but were told they were out. Afterwards Patrick washed dishes. We continued playing Little Orpheus. Patrick made Martha Stewart’s Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn. Watched What If...? s1:e1 on Disney+ then various YouTube videos. Patrick went to bed. I continued watching YouTube a while then imported a set of French language learning audio cds into Music on our entertainment server for Patrick to access from his MacBook Pro. It took a while to figure out how to see the files across the network.
Thu Aug 12, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Met with Eric, Levi, and Anne afterwards then met with Eric and Anne after that. Orgchart work. Task followup. Continued improving accessibility for some presentation templates in our identity site all day. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself leftover tagliatelle and a toasted mozzarella and green onion sandwich. Water to drink. Continued reading Reimagining Collaboration. Dinner at home with Patrick: double-crusted beef pot pie, water. He used our new Le Creuset marmite. Dessert: Patrick improvised something sweet using the remainder of the puff pastry used for the crust—yummy! Patrick washed some dishes. Afterwards we finished playing Little Orpheus and began playing Beyond a Steel Sky, both on Apple Arcade via Apple TV. I washed the remaining dishes. Patrick went to bed.
Fri Aug 13, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today then to Special s1:e1 on Netflix. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and diced mango; water. Sprint standup. Spent most of the day managing comms the forthcoming E&I event. Responded to a permissions request from Mandy M. Lunch at home: leftover beef pot pie from last night, water. Resolved an admin permissions problem for a few users. Weeded users in The Archive. Dinner at home with Patrick: variation of Martha Stewart's Weeknight Skillet Chili (vegetarian) with Patrick's hot, buttered cornbread; water. I had a mezcal margarita. We watched Ted Lasso s2:e4 on Apple TV+ then Moonlighting s3:e15 (To Heiress Human) on Netflix DVD. Patrick went to bed.
Sat Aug 14, 2021
Ran in place to a Fifth and Mission podcast via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Midmorning snack: two biscuits each with fig butter or peach preserves, water. I mailed a package at the post office. Only two workers and two customers ahead of me and one customer behind me. Lunch at home with Patrick: Patrick had leftover chili from last night. I had beef pot pie innards with biscuits. Water to drink. I washed dishes. Built a bookmarks web page for Patrick, hid it from search engines, and made it live. More getting rid of stuff. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Old Mandarin: potstickers, beef with green onions, sweet and sour chicken, shrimp chow mein, steamed white rice for two. Water to drink. I also had a glass of white wine. Afterwards we watched Schmigadoon! s1:e6 season finale on Apple TV+ then about two-thirds of Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang.
Sun Aug 15, 2021
Ran in place to an hour of My Octopus Teacher on Netflix. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Continued organizing stuff and preparing for giving away or selling or disposing of stuff. Reanalyzed power strip, surge protector, and UPS needs since these devices need to be replaced every three to five years. Lunch at home: leftovers from last night, water. Purchased new devices online. Removed a few power strips from service, then filled holes in walls. Cleaned the handheld vacuum filter and prefilter. Cleaned the bathtub. Dinner at home with Patrick: pan-seared pork chops, creamy mashed potatoes, and green beans; Topo Chico. I also had a glass of white wine. Afterwards on Netflix instant watch we watched the trailer for Q-Force then the remainder of Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang then 56 minutes of Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent. I continued playing Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade between shows. Patrick went to bed. Biphasic sleep, with a late night small meal: leftover green onion beef and rice, water.
Mon Aug 16, 2021
Ran in place to the remainder of My Octopus Teacher on Netflix instant watch. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Submitted an Constant Contact setup request with IT on behalf of Izzy R. D8 meeting with Eric and James. Reopened my ticket with IT in an attempt to set up distribution lists with longer, clearer, and easier-to-remember names to forward to shorter listserv names. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. E&I followup. Lunch at home: leftovers, water. Prepared a content template for E&I. A-Z list work. Registered for Adobe MAX and reviewed and added sessions. Dinner at home with Patrick: garlic-butter mushroom spaghetti with buttermilk biscuits, water. Afterwards I washed dishes then had a cocktail made with banana rum, coconut rum, and pineapple juice. We watched Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent and various trailers on Netflix instant watch then Behind the Attraction s1:e5 (Space Mountain) on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. I washed remaining dishes.
Tue Aug 17, 2021
No run today. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. Spent most of the day improving metatag data for pages in ACDRS for Jaime K. Lunch: I prepared for myself stir-fried string beans, mushrooms, and onions over Minute rice; water. Telework planning meeting with the team. Weeded safe senders and domains in Outlook because I seem to have encountered the limit (1024) and could not add any more. Dinner at home with Patrick: garlic tofu with zucchini, red pepper, and cashews over brown rice; water. I washed dishes. Patrick washed the cast iron pan. We watched Earth at Night in Color s1:e5 on Apple TV+ then Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi s1:e3. Patrick went to bed. I installed a surge-protecting power strip, tidied cables, cleaned cabling I took out of service, and covered logos on new devices with electrical tape (black) and vinyl tape (white), deintensified LEDs by covering them with tape, and labeled the power strip with the date I needed to remove it from service (three years from now).
Wed Aug 18, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water. Sprint standup. More Nullomers site build for Nadav and Ilias. Continued ACDRS metatag work for Jaime K. Read CSS Layout News 316. Lunch at home: leftovers from last night. Set up a second account in Campaign Monitor that is pay-as-you-go for our larger audience with infrequent sends then imported our list from Mailchimp. I realized after the import that CM doesn't allow you to create multiple value fields during the import, so I had to figure out on my own how to recover from it creating the fields incorrectly. Basically, delete the incorrectly created multiple value fields, manually create the fields, then reimport. Dinner at home with Patrick: creamy celery soup with buttered corn bread, water. Afterwards we watched What If…? s1:e2 on Disney+ then Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I removed and replaced surge-protecting power strip 2 of 6. Late meal: medium salad with mixed greens, butter lettuce, mushrooms, grape tomatoes, italian herb lemon dressing; a few roasted, unsalted cashews; mini pretzels with hummus; water. Washed dishes.
Thu Aug 19, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today, Fifth and Mission, and Don't Ask Tig podcasts via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and diced peach; water. Troubleshot and resolve problems with OneDrive on my Mac by running the reset script in the app's package contents. Sprint standup. Continued figuring out a workflow for updating HR info in Campaign Monitor. Finished reading Reimagining Collaboration by Phil Simon. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a cup of last night's celery soup, toasted ham and gouda sandwich, water. Explore Power Automate and created some test automations. Handled a logo request from Mitra A. Dinner at home with Patrick: fried chicken sandwich (using barefoot contessa's recipe) and sweet potato fries, water. Afterwards I washed dishes while Patrick dried them. I continued playing Beyond a Steel Sky on Apple Arcade via Apple TV while Patrick watched. Patrick went to bed.
Fri Aug 20, 2021
Ran in place to NPR Life Kit, Apple News Today, and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water. Sprint standup. Took another look at StoryPorts and sent feedback to Josh Y. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself stir-fried string beans, mushrooms, chives, and thyme over Minute rice, side of leftover celery soup; water. Published an event for Carolina L. Met with Anne. Followup with Neliza P and Paul D about Constant Contact. Edited the BBC Seminar Series page for Nicole F. Met with Eric about logo usage requests and collaboration futures. UCSF town hall. Dinner at home with Patrick: orzo with rapini, cherry tomatoes, and feta; water. Dessert: Patrick had chocolate ice cream, I had chocolate and dark cherry ice creams. I washed dishes and Patrick dried. We watched Ted Lasso s2:e5 on Apple TV+ then MARVEL WHAT IF Episode 2 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed! via New Rockstars on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I installed an update for macOS Catalina and other updates on all our Macs.
Sat Aug 21, 2021
Ran in place to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; warmed slice of banana bread, water. Packaged a return. More preparations for getting rid of stuff. Lunch at home: leftovers from last night, water. Patrick made French bread from scratch today, so we enjoyed slices of it, and the result was delicious. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie burgers and French fries, water. Afterwards we made Martha Stewart’s Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn and ate it while watching half of Wonder Woman 1984 on Netflix DVD. I had a margarita. Patrick went to bed. I continued playing Beyond a Steel Sky on Apple Arcade via Apple TV.
Sun Aug 22, 2021
Ran in place to TED and other YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; warmed slice of banana bread, water. Housecleaning: vacuuming, tidying. Lunch at home: large bowl of low-sodium, chicken-flavored ramen with cilantro, grape tomatoes, mushrooms, frozen corn off the cob, sliced onion, tofu, furikake; water. Long nap. We awoke to messages from Tina saying she ordered us a surprise DoorDash delivery. I looked outside, but it was nowhere to be found, and I thanked her and asked her not to reorder/replace it. Dinner at home with Patrick: boneless fried chicken over red beans and steamed rice, water. Patrick had chocolate ice cream with chopped, roasted almonds. I washed dishes. Afterwards we watched the remainder of Wonder Woman 1984 on Netflix DVD then various YouTube videos. WW84 deserves its low ratings. So much made so little sense.
Mon Aug 23, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV then to old disaster film trailers via Apple TV or maybe Apple TV+. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana, water. Sprint standup. D8 sprint start meeting. Prepared an Excel spreadsheet of D7 content views for Eric. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Remastered the ACPE logo for use on the Assessment and Evaluation Team page for Anne. Lunch at home: leftover sweet potato fries with ranch, leftover celery soup, leftover rice and beans, water. Short nap. Styling work: started dark mode. Afternoon snack: roasted, unsalted cashews; mini pretzels; water. Began work to remove iPQB for Nicole F. Walked to the mailbox to mail the Netflix DVD. Received a special delivery from my dentist: Invisalign tray sets. Dinner at home with Patrick: New Orleans-style bbq shrimp (heads on) and creamy grits, water. The meal was delicious, but the shrimp were very difficult to peel for some reason. Afterwards we watched Amanda Micheli's Double Dare (2005) on Kanopy, which doesn't seem to have an imdb listing. I highly recommend the film. I washed some dishes. Patrick went to bed, and I joined him for a while. I continued and finished washing dishes. Replaced an air purifier filter.
Tue Aug 24, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana, water. Sprint standup. Password management. Lunch: I prepared for myself a tofu and veggie stir fry with leftover steamed white rice. Water to drink. Updated the Email Campaigns website following our switch from Mailchimp to Campaign Monitor. Responded to a request from Marissa and Charly about media coverage. Met with Jon and Eric and some students in IPhO about brand and identity for badge reels. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover rice and beans with French bread, side salad with ranch, water. Dessert for Patrick only: chocolate ice cream with chocolate chip cookie crumble. Afterwards we watched various trailers and other videos on YouTube then Earth at Night in Color s1:e6 on Apple TV+ then Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi s1:e4 on Hulu Basic Plan. Patrick went to bed, and I joined him to cuddle. Biphasic sleep.
Wed Aug 25, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana, water. Continued work on the list of listservs spreadsheet and planning of super-lists. Read CSS Layout News 317. Sprint standup. Chatted with James and Eric about a disk space issue on ucsfp1 dev/stage. FAS Content Conference meeting. Lunch at home: packaged soba noodle salad, water. Equity and Inclusion Speaker Series. Today Patrick received a great review for If We Were Electric from The Georgia Review. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Calibur via Uber Eats: burgers and fries. Dessert for Patrick only: chocolate ice cream with maraschino cherry. We watched What If…? s1:e3 on Disney+. Patrick went to bed, and I joined him to cuddle.
Thu Aug 26, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana, water. Sprint standup. Followup with a student brand request. Forwarded a student request to Alexa T. DNS text record add for Calpoison for Jenna S. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself ramen noodle stir-fry with tofu and vegetables, water. Sent Liana C a small edit for future town hall invitations. Created a school orgchart with no names for Eric. Shared more feedback for the E&I Speaker Series. Built my first Microsoft Lists list for FAS Content: a list of books related to content strategy, ux, and collaboration. Met with Jon R and Eric to discuss RCO merchandise and fundraising guidelines. Built another Microsoft Lists list for FAS Content: resources. Dinner at home with Patrick: Martha Stewart's risotto with herb pesto, potato and green beans; water. I also had a glass of white wine. I washed dishes. Afterwards we played games on Apple Arcade on Apple TV: Frogger in Toy Town, Hogwash, and Marble It Up! Patrick went to bed.
Fri Aug 27, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts via Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and diced nectarine, water. Sprint standup. Inserted a script to embed Constant Contact signup forms for Calpoison, then did some necessary styling to make it fit in our site design. Followup with Deniel D about short and long email address names, listservs, dist lists, and resource accounts. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself two zucchini and mushroom tacos, water. Met with Anne. D8 sprint recap. Continued work on D7 to D8 list of view displays. Began editing a news story for Levi. Dinner at home with Patrick: Martha Stewart's broccoli frittata with garlic-dill bread, water. I also had a glass of white wine. Dessert for Patrick only: chocolate ice cream with toppings. Vacuumed Patrick's office, particularly behind the desk. Afterwards we watched Ted Lasso s2:e6 on Apple TV+ then stand-up comedy on YouTube. Patrick went to bed, and I joined him to cuddle a while. Arose. Attempted to resolve a squeaky orthotic. Here's everything I tried that did not work so far: a little baking soda, a lot of baking soda, taping a strip of linen underneath, taping a strip of linen above. Patrick made a citrus pound cake today.
Sat Aug 28, 2021
Continued attempting to resolve a squeaky orthotic. Replacing the orthotic with the original insert made the problem go away, but I need the orthotic. Inserting the orthotic on top of the original insert made the problem go away, but this adversely affects the correction provided by the orthotic. Inserting the orthotic on top of heel lifts made the problem go away, but this adversely affects the correction provided by the orthotic. I put the orthotic back in by itself and the squeak is almost entirely gone, and I don't know why. Ran in place while continuing to play Beyond a Steel Sky on Apple Arcade on Apple TV with a PlayStation 5 controller. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana, heated slice of citrus pound cake, water. Made a small edit for Patrick to his website. Continued attempting to resolve a squeaky orthotic. Tried rubbing the underside with a bar of paraffin, and it seemed to work but let's wait to see how long it lasts. Prepped for the replacement of another power strip. Patched holes in walls and spot-painted. Nap. Replaced a power strip. Vacuumed. Changed air purifier prefilters. Dinner at home with Patrick: Martha Stewart's quinoa with carmelized corn and scallions, side of buttermilk biscuits. Dessert for Patrick: warmed slice of citrus pound cake, dark cherry ice cream. I washed dishes. We watched half of Cruella on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. Late dessert for me: same as Patrick had.
Sun Aug 29, 2021
Shopped for new games on Apple Arcade on Apple TV. Ran in place while continuing Beyond a Steel Sky while other games downloaded in the background. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and dried cranberries, heated slice of citrus pound cake, water. The paraffin treatment seems to have resolved my squeaky orthortics. I rubbed the underside and the edges with it, and so far no more squeaks. Prepped replacement of two more power strips. Lunch: I prepared for myself a quesadilla. Small web update for Recharge. Did the replacements. Cleaned and tidied. Cleaned the bathroom, cut my hair, showered. Nap. Updates for home devices and websites. Dinner at home with Patrick: Martha Stewart's pasta alfredo with lemon and asparagus (2021), garlic bread, water. I also had two glasses of wine. I washed dishes. Afterwards we finished watching Cruella on Disney+ then watched Cruella extras on YouTube then trailers for 101 Dalmations (1961 and 1996). Patrick went to bed. Dev site work for Recharge. Spent several hours trying to update from Composer 1 to Composer 2. Late snack: one raw carrot with hummus, 8 small pretzel sticks, old-thyme lemon-glazed sliced carrots, water. Washed dishes.
Mon Aug 30, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts and while playing Beyond Blue on Apple Arcade. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries, heated slice of citrus pound cake, water. Sprint standup. Chatted with La'Trece in email. Forwarded an HR request about Rupa T to Angela B. Finished editing a news story for Levi. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself tonkatsu-flavored ramen with baby bok choy, tofu, cilantro, mixed greens, sliced yellow onion; water. Orgchart work: Pharm Chem. E&I recap meeting. Helped Mandy B and Nancy C with a question about missing images. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Marnee Thai via Uber Eats: potstickers, imperial rolls, bbq chicken, pad thai prawns, brown rice, one thai iced tea. The food was delicious, but prices have gone up, and portion sizes have gone down. If only one of these, it might have been tolerable. But both? We acknowledge that restaurants are hurting, but this is not the way I want to be rewarded for supporting restaurants, and I'm not sure we'll order from Marnee Thai again at least for a while. Late snack: celery sticks, hummus, pretzel sticks, water.
Tue Aug 31, 2021
Ran in place to Apple News Today and Fifth and Mission podcasts and while playing Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries, water. Sprint standup. 1:1 with Eric, including person page work for Marley Q. Submitted new requests to create three super-lists. Unpublished person page for Joanna T. Lunch at home: leftover shrimp pad thai with extra frozen shrimp, leftover egg roll, water. Met with Rebecca D, Nicole F, and Eric D about iPQB and CBS. Chatted a while longer with Eric about listservs. Followup with Cheryl and Emma about mailing lists. CBS microsite build. Dinner at home with Patrick: polenta with fried eggs, broccolini, and garlicky mushrooms; water. I washed dishes. Afterwards we watched various videos on YouTube from Free Tours by Foot, James Bond 007, Rick Steves' Europe, japan-guide.com, and Free High-Quality Documentaries.