February 2022
Summary: Sunset Mercantile with Patrick, omicron recedes, dinner at Poesia with Patrick, lunch at Millbrae Pancake House with Patrick and Sam, Russia invades Ukraine
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Tue Feb 1, 2022
Walked and ran in place to Audubon (2017) on Amazon Prime Video. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and raspberries; water to drink. html email template work all day: backport things learned from the UFC template to other templates. 1:1 with Eric. Lunch at home: leftover soup from yesterday with newly added shrimp from frozen, side of whole corn tortilla chips with french onion dip. Walked to the mailbox and back to mail the Netflix DVD. Sat in the back yard in the sun for a while. D9 meeting: views. Dinner at home with Patrick: lunar new year delivery from Mamahuhu: cold sesame noodles (rice and noodles), crunchy cabbage salad (sides), dd jasmine rice (rice and noodles), egg rolls (sides), sweet and sour cauliflower (house special) (house specials), wok'd veg, elderberry tonic for Patrick, water for me. All the food was good, but the standout dish was the sweet and sour cauliflower. The cold sesame noodles were quite spicy, but I was able to eat some of it before stopping. It was my least favorite of these dishes, and it did not keep well, being too sticky and clumpy one day later, so best to eat this dish quickly. The crunchy cabbage salad had delightful pieces of Hodo tofu cracker, which was a clever way to add crunch without a bread product. The wok'd veg was a delicious blend of vegetables that you don't often taste in Chinese restaurants, and it smartly used typically discarded broccoli stems to avoid food waste. Afterwards we finished listening to Nicole Byer's podcast Why Won't You Date Me?: Throwing Shade with Bianca Del Rio on Apple Podcasts via Apple TV. Patrick had chocolate fudge brownie ice cream for dessert. I stored leftover food from dinner. We watched various YouTube videos. Patrick went to bed about 20 minutes early. Added a new event to Patrick's website at his request. Installed web updates for home websites and stored new backups. I washed dishes. Late snack: cottage cheese with raspberries, water.
Wed Feb 2, 2022
Walked and ran in place to two episodes of Check, Please! Bay Area s16:e4 (Old School Restaurants: Tadich Grill, Casa Orinda in Orinda, Tommy's Joynt, House of Prime Rib, Marin Joe's in Corte Madera, Thanh Long) and s15:e20 (Stay Gold Deli in Oakland, Sunset Reservoir Brewing Company, Wayfare Tavern) on PBS on Apple TV. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and raspberries; water to drink. Siteimprove linkchecking and policy work. Lots of Asana task followup. Reviewed High Quality, Free, Open Source Design Assets – 2022 Edition. Digital asset management work in The Archive: archived science images from recent news stories, identified mistagged images in a recent upload. Lunch: dinner leftovers, water. Watched Siteimprove training video Jan 2022 - Browsing The Web With A Screen Reader. Dinner at home with Patrick: Mediterrnanean halibut en papillote with lemon-garlic quinoa, water. Patrick had a small remainder of chocolate fudge brownie ice cream for dessert. Afterwards we made no-oil, no-salt popcorn from the silicone microwave popper with toppings (asiago pepper for me, brewer's yeast for Patrick) and watched The Book of Boba Fett s1:e6 then Your Friend the Rat (2007) then Trail Mix-Up (1993) all on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. I archived tax records. Pantry organization: baking and sugars shelf. Washed dishes. Late snack: greek yogurt with raspberries and almonds, water. Washed dishes.
Thu Feb 3, 2022
Walked and ran in place to Check, Please! Bay Area Kids s15:e6 (Urban Putt, Lai Hong Lounge, Vesta) and while browsing viewing options. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water to drink. Troubleshot a problem in which double-clicking an email item in Outlook Web Access resulted in a blank pop-up window rather than seeing the message appear—the Open in a New Window feature. The problem happened in Firefox but not in Chrome. I isolated the problem to the CustomCSS Injector extension by Blizz3, but I couldn't see any code I had entered to make the problem happen. Possibly the files for it were corrupted, but I could see no way to inspect or clear them. I uninstalled the extension, not realizing that I would then lose all my customizations. I reinstalled the extension to find that all my customizations were lost and the problem still occurred. I decided to abandon it. To replace it, I installed CSS Override by swcolegrove. D9 meeting with Eric and James. Created mockups of UCSF and SOP logos on Facebook posts for Eric and Levi. Uninstalled Open Graph Preview by apiaget because of the distorted images. Replaced it with Social Share Preview by Nifty Software. Motif builds all day. Afternoon snack: whole wheat crackers with almond butter. Dinner at home with Patrick: bulgur salad with cucumbers, chickpeas, lemon and dill; water. I washed dishes while Patrick prepared a jelly donut using a brioche hamburger bun. I called it a fauxnut. Afterwards we watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel s3:e1 on Amazon Prime Video. Late small meal: a small remainder of halibut which I prepared en papillote with lemon, italian parsley, butter, salt, and pepper. Side of pan-seared asparagus, unseasoned. Water to drink. Butcher block wood butter treatment. Washed dishes.
Fri Feb 4, 2022
Walked and ran in place to Welcome To Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort on Amazon Prime Video. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water to drink. Asana task management all day. D9 work all day: form styling, implement fields for phonetic pronunciation of name. Discovered Name Coach which seems like a very useful service. Met with Cynthia and Eric about computer hardware and work spaces. Lunch at home: leftover bulgur salad, water. Followup with a taxonomy problem reported by Michael D and which James fixed quickly. UCSF town hall. Dinner at home with Patrick: vegetable barley soup with whole grain crackers, water. Dessert: I had one chocolate covered cherry. Patrick had mini chocolate chips and later yogurt. I washed dishes. Afterwards we watched The Standups: Brian Simpson then Murderville s1:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I archived documents and folded some clothes that Patrick had washed earlier. Late snack: whole-wheat crackers with mild cheddar, water.
Sat Feb 5, 2022
Walked and ran in place to an hour of CODA on Apple TV+. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water to drink. Washed dishes, filed clothes that Patrick had folded earlier. Reviewed my preferred clothing measurements against a new extra small slim fit Bonobos henley, which is too large for me, and prep for alteration. Did some bathroom cleaning. Lunch: leftover quinoa with halibut and vegetables to which I prepared and added a chive-lime crema. Patrick and I voted our mail-in ballots for the Board of Education recall. Afternoon snack: one carrot then whole wheat crackers, both with french onion dip. Water to drink. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover vegetable barley soup, this time with whole-wheat-enhanced biscuits. Water to drink. I washed dishes. Cocktails: one Manhattan each. We watched all the available episodes of Good Gumbo on PBS then two episodes of Farm to Table Family (dumplings at Din Tai Fung and orange and chocolate macarons) then various comedy clips on YouTube. I walked in place for part of the time while watching. Patrick went to bed. Installed macOS updates on all home Macs. Late snack: cottage cheese with blueberries, water to drink.
Sun Feb 6, 2022
Walked and ran in place to the remainder of CODA on Apple TV+—loved it. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water to drink. Later in the morning but before noon we walked to the farmer's market at 37th and Ortega aka Sunset Mercantile. It was nice to get outside. We wore our N95 (Patrick) and KN95 (me) masks before entering the more crowded areas. I was surprised that nearly everyone still wore masks even though we were outside and not tightly crowded. Musicians played and sang in different areas but this did not carry the same concern as earlier in the pandemic when the vaccines were new. We walked the entire length once before trying several eateries on the return: one guava malasada from Ocean Malasada Company ($3.50), shrimp yakisoba from Kunugi Noodle ($18 before tip), mushroom slice from Sunset Squares pizza ($6 before tip), and Al Greens vegetable juice from Bowl'D Acai ($12 before tip). The malasada was delicious and we would try the other flavors next time. The yakisoba had a notably large number of medium-sized shrimp and Patrick commented on the flavors weren't overwhelmed by soy saltiness. The pizza was delicious and pillowy with crunchy, hard-cheesy edges. It could've been hotter, so maybe next time we'll ask them to warm it extra hot. The juice made Patrick say, "Woo!" on the first sip and had a mildly warm ginger warmth to it. While strolling we enjoyed Lunar New Year celebrations, including a dance troupe. A lion dance also performed, and we saw them arrive, but we did not catch it. Walked home, stopping at Asian American Food Company on Taraval for frozen dumplings. I napped. Dinner at home with Patrick: seafood and vegetarian dumplings, water. While preparing the meal I made quarter horse cocktails for us to enjoy. Afterwards Patrick washed dishes, then we made Martha Stewart's Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn for tonight's film: Ruthless People (1986) on Netflix DVD. Patrick went to bed. I washed more dishes.
Mon Feb 7, 2022
Walked in place to Plain English with Derek Thompson (One Big Question For: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, and Meta) and part of Fifth and Mission (The War Between the SFPD and D.A. Chesa Boudin). Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water to drink. I worked outside in the back yard for parts of the day. Followup with Michael D about the news view issue he recently reported. Followup with BTS team about unsubs and other data following their campaign. D9: followup on Eric's request to add a record-in-browser feature for the name pronunciation field. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Lunch at home: leftover barley soup. I also prepared for myself a small salad with mixed supergreens, dill, red bell pepper, cucumber, blue cheese dressing, and blue cheese crumble. Water to drink. Met with Pam, Josh, and Eric about computer hardware and work spaces. Built some new svg motifs for image comp backgrounds. Organized notes. Midafternoon snack: one multigrain biscuit from a previous day, water. Team chat with Chris O: IS-3 security and more. Walked to the mailbox and back: Netflix DVD. Dinner at home with Patrick: chickpea rotini with cauliflower, green olives, and almonds; water to drink. Patrick washed dishes. Cocktails: one quarter horse each. While waiting for drinks I played games on Apple Arcade on Apple TV: WHAT THE GOLF? then together we played Instant Trivia and 4 in a Row. We watched Daredevil s2:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick also had microwave silicone popper popcorn with brewer's yeast and other fixins. Patrick went to bed.
Tue Feb 8, 2022
Had trouble sleeping during the night, so I slept in—no morning run. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water to drink. D9 front-end and styling work all day: added a new icon for offsite links that open in a new tab or window, reworked event dates to conform to our date and time styles. 1:1 with Eric. Lunch at home: leftover barley soup with whole wheat crackers, water. The landlord stopped by today with a contractor to examine the leak at the rear wall and door. They plan to replace the wooden door and door frame with a metal one and re-seal the house margin with concrete. Dinner at home with Patrick: two each baked breaded halibut small tacos on whole corn tortillas with slaw and dill. We watched a few trailers on YouTube then The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel s3:e2 on Amazon Prime Video then various standup comedy videos on YouTube. Reviewed new gear released by my favorite bag company Peak Design.
Wed Feb 9, 2022
Walked and ran in place while browsing for new things for walking and running in place. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water to drink. D9 front-end and styling work all day, working outside in the back yard for part of the day. Mailing list work. People page work. Hardware followup with Josh. Lunch at home with Patrick: steamed egg dumplings and vegetarian dumplings with homemade dipping sauce, side of cole slaw, water. I played Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade on Apple TV. Dinner at home with Patrick: broccoli frittata with heirloom whole red wheat biscuits, water, white wine. Afterwards we watched The Book of Boba Fett s1:e7 (season finale) on Disney+ then one third of a New Rockstars episode reaction and explainer. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. Butcher block wood butter treatment.
Thu Feb 10, 2022
Walked and ran in place while watching various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water to drink. D9 front-end and styling work all day, working outside in the back yard for part of the day. Posted a QBI event for Alexa R. Lunch at home: leftover barley and vegetable soup, whole wheat crackers with cheddar cheese, water. Minor web edits for Josh, Julia, and Anne. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Spiazzo via Uber Eats: minestrone, vellutata di zucca, insalata con salmone. We watched Star Trek: Discovery s4:e8 on Paramount+. A new stool arrived today for Patrick to have a place to sit while he cooks in the kitchen. Late snack: cottage cheese with sliced banana, water. Installed updates for Patrick's laptop.
Fri Feb 11, 2022
Walked and ran in place while watching various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and sliced banana; water to drink. Followup with hardware ordering. Responded to a request from Robyn K about a student wanting to start a social media account for wellness content. D9 toc work: decided to abandon all choices since none of them worked exactly to my liking. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a redux of the fish tacos we had recently and made a new lime-cilantro crema. Water to drink. Motifs work all afternoon in Illustrator and Photoshop. I ran in place while playing Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade on Apple TV. Dinner at home with Patrick: soy-glazed tofu and mixed mushrooms with brown rice, water, red wine. Afterwards we watched Daredevil s2:e2 on Netflix instant watch then Ms. Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy? on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: yogurt with blueberries and almonds. Water to drink.
Sat Feb 12, 2022
Walked and ran in place while watching various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water to drink. Lunch at home: leftover chickpea rotini and I made a small whole corn tortilla taco with cole slaw mix, dill, cilantro, and cheddar cheese; water to drink. Yesterday we learned that Marvel TV shows will leave Netflix at the end of this month, so today we began an attempt to watch the remainder of Daredevil. We have 25 episodes (or hours) to watch. Patrick made us lemon margaritas to drink while we watched Daredevil s2:e3 and e4 on Netflix instant watch with a break in between to make Martha Stewart's Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn. Dinner at home with Patrick: fried salmon with sauteed super greens and mushrooms. Water to drink. Patrick washed dishes. We watched Daredevil s2:e5 on Netflix instant watch. During all watching today I walked in place.
Sun Feb 13, 2022
Ran and walked in place to Greek Islands: Santorini, Mykonos, and Rhodes via Rick Steves' Europe on YouTube then The Best of Sicily s10 e1008 on PBS. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water to drink. Nap. After a while Patrick joined me to nap. I arose. Snack: whole-grain pretzel sticks, a slice of cheese cut into strips, water. Installed and played Radiant One on Apple TV for a few minutes but then stopped and deleted it because I couldn't figure out the controls, either with a PlayStation DualSense 5 or with the Apple Remote. I got stuck first while flying then again in a hallway with a grim reaper. I played Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade on Apple TV. Patrick arose. We briefly played Instant Trivia on Apple TV. Dinner at home with Patrick: together we prepared black bean and cauliflower burrito bowl with avocado crema and cilantro-lime quinoa. Water and red wine to drink. I washed dishes. Afterwards we watched Daredevil s2:e6 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. Late small meal: three mandarins then a medium salad with romaine, cole slaw mix, mushrooms, cucumber, pumpkin seeds, grated white cheddar, ranch dressing. Water to drink.
Mon Feb 14, 2022
Ran and walked in place to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water to drink. Motifs work: haystacks. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. D9 work all day. Today Patrick made a variation of Ina Garten's frosted lemon yogurt cake recipe substituting most of the all-purpose flour with chickpea, whole wheat pastry, and almond flours, and we each ate one muffin. Lunch at home: leftovers from last night's dinner. Attempted to resolve a problem on Patrick's MacBook Pro with the TV app: the app hangs and crashes while attempting to play any purchased video. The problem also happened in my macOS account on the same computer and on my work MacBook Pro. The problem does not happen on the standalone Apple TV or on Apple TV on our iPad Air. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Pacific Catch: seared ahi burger with seasoned fries for Patrick, hawaiian teriyaki chicken bowl for me (sub brown rice and quinoa for sushi rice). Afterwards we watched Daredevil s2:e7 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. We watched various YouTube videos including Super Bowl commercials and the Super Bowl halftime show and a new trailer for a forthcoming Doctor Strange film. Late small meal: small salad similar to yesterday's. Water to drink.
Tue Feb 15, 2022
Had a bit of trouble sleeping last night, so I slept in a bit. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries; water to drink. Reported a websites availability problem to John K who resolved the issue quickly with Acquia. Notified site owners and editors about the outage. Edited a news story for Levi. The F key on my 2017 MacBook Pro keyboard stopped working and then popped off almost by itself. I cleaned the key and the keyboard area first with compressed air then with a lint-free cloth. I popped the key back in and it works most of the time but still feels a bit flaky. This even after I had the keyboard replaced by Apple once. The websites availability problem returned. Chatted in email with Lucia. Reported a separate website outage to IT on behalf of Julia H. Lunch at home: leftovers from dinner last night, water. Fletch stopped by briefly so that we could share some of the lemon (Patrick says cupcakes but I say muffins). Met with Anne to review Asana tasks and discuss people pages and orgcharts, among other things. Researched focus group articles for Anne. Cocktails with Patrick: he made us one La Louisiane each. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie burger with sliced tomato and baby kale on whole grain brioche with a side of onion rings and ketchup. Water to drink. Afterwards we watched Daredevil s2:e8 on Netflix instant watch. I walked in place while we watched. Dessert: one cupcake or muffin each. Afterwards Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes then upgraded from macOS Catalina to macOS Monterey on Patrick's MacBook Pro in an attempt to resolve the problem mentioned yesterday with the TV app. While waiting for the installation, I continued reading from The Jungle Around Us by Anne Raeff which I had started in the past few days. Walked somewhat while reading. The Monterey upgrade was successful, and it resolved the problem with the TV app. The only problem I discovered was that the wired etherent connection via a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Express Dock failed to connect as expected. Not a big problem in this case since he's in the same room as the router, but one of our backup systems for now will need to connect over wifi instead of wired.
Wed Feb 16, 2022
Ran in place to Virtual Run on the Mammoth Town Loop via Treadmill TV on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and raspberries and sliced banana; water to drink. Followup with yesterday's websites outage. Mailing list work: investigated and resolved a problem with a field relating to one address we have for Bo. (Cause: bad data from AR.) Watched some web developer YouTube videos from Designing in the Browser via Google Chrome Developers. Began investigating use of the container queries polyfill that recently became available. Investigated why a news digest preview did not send as expected from an automated Campaign Monitor workflow. The answer is unclear, but CM now says it will send tomorrow? Patrick and I learned today that after upgrading from macOS Catalina to macOS Monterey he is no longer to select non-contiguous text in plain text TextEdit documents. It's possible with rich text or with an alternate editor, but he doesn't want to switch. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a veggie burger with tomato, leftover cole slaw, cheddar, pickles, and leftover avocado crema on previously frozen whole grain bun. Side of chickpea cheese puffs. Water to drink. Watched or skimmed a bunch of AEA videos from 2019. HTML email template work: town hall. Dinner at home with Patrick: creamy carrot soup with whole wheat flatbread, water. I played Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade on Apple TV. We watched various YouTube videos then Daredevil s2:e9 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. Late snacks: one chicken egg roll from frozen, side of cottage cheese, lentil chips with leftover avocado crema. Water to drink.
Thu Feb 17, 2022
Ran in place to Microsoft Loop Explained: this will change how you work via Kevin Stratvert and The Typographic Legacy of Microsoft via Linus Boman on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and raspberries and sliced banana; water to drink. Asana task followup. Met with Eric: D9. (James on vacation.) Edited a news story for Levi: barbershop. Lunch: leftover carrot soup, small baby kale salad with boiled egg, diced tomato, and blue cheese dressing. Water to drink. HTML email template work: town hall. Rode UberX to the Castro. Dinner at Poesia with Patrick: aperol spritzes, burrata, tuna tartare. Patrick had trancio pesce. I had orecchiette cime di rapa. A glass of Monferrato bianco each. For dessert we shared chocolate mousse. Afterwards we walked in the Castro a bit trying to find a place that wasn't too dead (Swirl) and wasn't too busy (Hi Tops). We stopped at Detour (also busy) so I could use the restroom. We found Blackbird with just the right amount of people and stayed for a drink. I had a Berserker. Patrick had an Old Queen. After a few sips I decided I liked his drink better, so we swapped. Rode UberX home.
Fri Feb 18, 2022
Ran in place to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and raspberries; water to drink. Met with Phillip B and Angelie K and Eric and Anne about the faculty academic affairs web page and the proposal to migrate some of its content. Met with Eric and Anne to talk about that and also about Calpoison issues. Created a summary of the FAA proposal, sent it to Eric and Anne for review. Lunch at home: leftovers from last night's dinner, cup of leftover carrot soup, water. Various followup. HTML email template work: town hall. UCSF town hall. Dinner at home with Patrick: various kinds of dumplings from frozen, water. Patrick also had a glass of beer. Patrick washed dishes. We watched Daredevil s2:e10 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I resolved a problem with a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Express Dock in which after upgrading from macOS Catalina 10.15.7 to Monterey 12.2.1 the dock's ethernet port stopped working. Everything else in the dock seemed to work. Eric D pointed me to a Belkin support document that looked like it could help. The instructions did not match, but I followed them anyway, and to my surprise they worked. How to fix: disconnect the Mac from the dock, shut down the Mac, disconnect all device cables from the dock, unplug the power from the dock, plug in all the device cables, connect the Mac to the dock, plug in power for the dock, start the Mac. Ignore the references to the USB 10/100/1000 interface. It will still work. I reconfigured one backup system to use ethernet instead of wifi. Prepped for a new hardware purchase in order to instigate a trickle-down: gathered storage use and display resolutions data, read the Mac Buyer's Guide, thought about potential scenarios. Deleted some apps no longer needed on Patrick's computer: Pages, Numbers, Xcode. Late snack: unsalted cashews, one navel orange.
Sat Feb 19, 2022
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and diced pear; water to drink. Breakfast at Millbrae Pancake House with Patrick and Sam, with Sam driving us after he and Patrick did martial arts practice nearby. We ate outdoors at a picnic table with a large umbrella. Sam and I each had two eggs with bacon and buckwheat pancakes. Mine over easy, his medium. Patrick had a Spanish omelet with hash browns and a side of buttermilk pancakes. Regular coffee for Sam and Patrick (they both forgot to order decaf), ice water for me. Afterwards we visited Sam's apartment nearby so that I could examine his technology situation after his computer recently died. We changed some settings for his router and restarted it, and he answered lots of questions I had for him about how he uses a computer. We made a plan for him to stop using two very old iPads. Because of our discussion he began using a Chromebook that he had had for a while. He drove us home. I took a long nap. Foot care. Snack: one navel orange, unsalted cashews. I quickly chilled a bottle of white wine by wrapping it in a wet paper towel and putting it in the freezer for 15 minutes, turning every few minutes. Did some cellular plan research for Sam. Dinner at home with Patrick: tofu steak with miso mushrooms and brown rice, water, white wine. I washed dishes. Afterwards we watched Daredevil s2:e11 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. Locally tested home websites in PHP 8.0.13 and 8.1.0 in MAMP Pro. Changed production to 8.1.0 and all sites worked except for one so I kept that one at 7.4. Installed iOS 15.3.1 for iPhone and iPad and backed up both to three devices. Did some hardware research for Sam. Late snack: Chobani greek yogurt with blueberries, sliced banana, and peanut butter. Water to drink.
Sun Feb 20, 2022
Ran and walked in place to Daredevil s2:e11 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick watched also. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk and diced pear; water to drink. Patrick made lemon posset this morning. We watched Daredevil s2:e12 on Netflix instant watch. I rested. Lunch at home with Patrick: one each veggie burger with fixins on whole wheat brioche buns, water. Vacuumed. Changed a dead light bulb in the office closet. Cleaned some in the bathroom. Cut my hair, showered. Cleaned the bathtub and more elsewhere in the bathroom. Rested. Afternoon snack: leftover carrot soup, water. We watched Daredevil s2:e13 (season 2 finale) on Netflix instant watch. Break. We watched Daredevil s3:e1 on Netflix instant watch with Martha Stewart's Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn. For dinner I prepared for us brown rice noodle soup with egg, shiitake, green onions, baby kale, and micro broccoli in a ginger-mushroom-miso broth. Mine also had five medium shrimp from frozen. Water to drink. Dessert: lemon posset. After dinner we each had a glass of white wine. Patrick washed dishes. We watched 37 minutes of Ali Wong: Don Juan. Patrick went to bed.
Mon Feb 21, 2022
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, and blueberries; water to drink. Watched Daredevil s3:e2 on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. I ran or walked in place while watching. Today Patrick made flax meal and sesame seed crackers using a recipe found on Healthline. Patrick noticed some smudging on some recent printouts, so I inspected our laser printer and found that the toner cartridge was leaking. I vacummed the spilled toner before learning that you need a special vacuum cleaner to do so safely, but it wasn't very much toner, and nothing bad happened (yet?). Toner can hold a charge, so it could result in shock or, rarely, an explosion. I went outside and touched a water pipe and nothing happened there, either. Lunch at home with Patrick: Patrick prepared us large salads. Water to drink. Had a few spoonfuls of lemon posset. Ordered a new laser printer since the one we had lasted us 16 years and a new toner cartridge was about half the price of a new laser printer. Patrick made Ambitious Kitchen's grain-free tahini brownies. We watched Daredevil s3:e3 on Netflix instant watch. I ran or walked in place while watching. One brownie each. Cocktails: one mezcal margarita each. Dinner: Patrick prepared black bean quinoa chili, a variation on a recipe from A Couple Cooks. Water to drink. I washed dishes. We watched Daredevil s3:e4 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick washed more dishes. I briefly played Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade on Apple TV. We finished watching Ali Wong: Don Wong on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I made some minor adjustments to my journal code following the transition from PHP 7.4 to 8.1.0: mktime() now must have at least one argument (so use time() instead). Late snack: leftover miso mushrooms and brown rice, grilled cheese sandwich with micro broccoli, milk.
Tue Feb 22, 2022
Ran and walked in place while watching Daredevil s3:e5 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick had previously seen all three seasons and I haven't, so when possible I'm continuing apace without him in order to finish before it leaves Netflix at the end of this month. He looked over at the screen now and then as a refresher in the midst of his usual morning routine. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, and blueberries; water to drink. Standup. Various Asana task followup. Made a few edits to the FAA content migration proposal. Handled a requst from Liana about MAK's preferred email address change request. Recently I noticed that the heater in our bedroom has not been keeping the room warm on the same setting we keep it. I think it's because carpet has been recently removed in the upstairs units. Nothing to do but turn the heater on higher, I guess. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a redux of brown rice spaghetti noodle soup since we had some left over. Water to drink. In the afternoon: D9 front-end work: getting the authors and authored on date grouped and styled properly. Sam came over, and we chatted about his computer needs. I agreed we would trickle down a laptop to him, but not before Apple's forthcoming announcements on March 8. Dinner at home with Patrick: spring mix salad with dill, micro broccoli, and blue cheese dressing—mine with blue cheese crumble; roasted veggie pizza with chickpea crust from frozen, water. Dessert: Patrick had a grain-free tahini brownie with milk; I had one bite and one sip. We watched various YouTube videos. Hail fell for several minutes today, surprising us. We watched Daredevil s3:e6 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I installed a new 5×8-foot rug in the office and did some cleaning at the same time. Chair leg maintenance. Late snacks: tiny bowl of cottage cheese with sliced banana, Chobani yogurt with sliced banana and peanut butter. Water to drink.
Wed Feb 23, 2022
Ran and walked in place while watching Daredevil s3:e7 on Netflix instant watch. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, sliced banana, and roasted slivered almonds; water to drink. Chat and task followup. Created a new policy to find news stories with attachments. Lots of construction noise all day today from upstairs. Reported anomalous website behavior for a few of our websites. James cleared caches and that fixed it. Siteimprove accessibility meeting. Lunch at home: leftover black bean quinoa chili, water. Edited tomorrow's town hall powerpoint. Orgchart work: added Kimberly C. More town hall powerpoint work all afternoon. Afternoon snack: one small seedless orange. Dinner at home with Patrick: Middle Eastern-spiced vegetarian couscous, water. I washed dishes. We watched a few YouTube videos then Star Trek: Discovery s4:e9 on Paramount+ then had a break then watched Daredevil s3:e8 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I installed Drupal updates for the Recharge website in development. Late snack: melted cheddar slice on whole wheat toast, water.
Thu Feb 24, 2022
Ran and walked in place while watching Daredevil s3:e9 on Netflix instant watch. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, sliced banana, and roasted slivered almonds; water to drink. Various task followup. D9 meeting with Eric and James. Due to noisy construction upstairs I had to take my laptop to the back yard while meeting. Town hall html email work and send through 1:00 p.m. Lunch: small bowl of leftover black bean chili. Water to drink. Town hall html email followup. Town hall. UFD html email template work all afternoon. Caught the end of Patrick reading an edited version of Where It Takes Us from If We Were Electric at a reading hosted by The Poetry Center at SFSU, which took place in person and livestreamed on YouTube. Patrick returned home and immediately took a long nap. Dinner at home by myself: roasted cauliflower, leftover brown rice, water. I walked in place while watching Daredevil s3:e10 on Netflix instant watch. Patrick arose while I was watching. We watched half of Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything on Netflix instant watch. Late small meals: Patrick had a slice of whole wheat toast with butter, and I had Chobani greek yogurt with almond butter and sliced banana.
Fri Feb 25, 2022
Ran in place while watching Daredevil s3:e11 on Netflix instant watch. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, roasted slivered almonds and sliced banana; water to drink. Various task followup. Dean's Office Workshop: Change, Wellbeing, and Resiliency. I attended part of it in the back yard due to construction noise from the upstairs unit. Lunch at home with Patrick: fish dumplings from frozen with dipping sauce, water. Performance evaluation meeting with Eric. Review inbox work. Siteimprove policy work. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Lemonade: buckwheat soba with kimchi, potato chips, pineapple mango lemonade and ahi tuna avocado poke bowl with heirloom red rice for Patrick, grass-fed steak and green bean bowl with heirloom red rice for me. My dish came with a chimichurri that was too spicy for me, so Patrick used it for a chip dip, and I substituted ranch dressing we had in the fridge. Afterwards we watched Daredevil s3:e12 then s3:e13 (season 3 finale) on Netflix instant watch with a break in between. Then we watched the last fifteen minutes of Hawkeye s1:e6 on Disney+. Patrick went to bed. I had an unfortunate encounter with a contractor doing work and making noise upstairs past 8:00 p.m. then wrote an email to the landlord about it. Late small meal: a tiny bowl of leftover Middle Eastern-spiced vegetarian couscous, water. I washed dishes.
Sat Feb 26, 2022
Ran and walked in place to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, and sliced banana; water to drink. After Patrick and Sam practiced martial arts this morning, Sam stopped by to test his various electronic devices on our internet connection to compare with his connection at home. We took a break in the middle to eat king cake and drink decaf Southern pecan coffee with milk. Sam discovered a small piece of plastic in his slice, and then we realized that Baby Jesus had lost His left foot in the distribution. Sam had not swallowed it, fortunately. Be careful out there! Sam finished testing his devices and left. I took a long nap. Patrick and I skimmed and watched the last 10 minutes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel s3:e2 on Amazon Prime Video to refresh ourselves on where we had left off. I set up the new black-and-white laser printer, a Brother HLL2370DW. All went reasonably well. I didn't find the note about the default admin password until after I had set it in its place, so it was a bit annoying to have to pull it out and snap a photo of it on the back panel in order to find it. The first test page had a worrisome-looking dark black stripe of toner along the entire left edge, but subsequent pages did not. Floor work upstairs created a chemical odor that somehow permeated throughout and into our unit, so I opened the window and turned on a fan for more ventilation even though it's cold outside. Dinner at home with Patrick: medium salad, leftover fish dumplings cooked potsticker style, water. Afterwards we watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel s3:e3 on Amazon Prime Video with Martha Stewart's Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn. Patrick also had a beer. Troubleshot a problem on Patrick's MacBook Pro in which attempting a video call on Facetime resulted in an error: "[name] is not available for Facetime." I think I resolved it by turning off (unchecking) the "Calls from iPhone" preference in Facetime. We did a Facetime chat with Mom Ryan for a few minutes. We finished watching Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. I similarly aired the office because it too smelled of chemicals. Our air purifier set to high did not resolve the problem in the office. Airing did not help much since just outside this window it also smelled strongly of chemicals, so I closed the window and left our air purifier on its medium setting. I washed dishes.
Sun Feb 27, 2022
Ran and walked in place to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, and dried jackfruit; water to drink. Updated news on Patrick's website. We watched John Mulaney's opening monologue from last night's SNL—terrific and funny as always. Removed unnecessary labels from and covered logos on the new black-and-white laser printer. Home websites updates and backups. Vacuumed briefly. More airing of our apartment due to chemical smells from floor work in the upstairs unit. Early lunch: two small melted cheddar sandwiches with mixed lettuces and sliced tomato on whole grain sourdough, whole wheat crackers with cheddar, water. Long nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: cassava spaghetti with garlic, broccoli, roasted pine nuts, and parmesan; cream of sweet potato soup; water; white wine. We watched Star Trek: Discovery s4:e10 on Paramount+ during which Patrick had Martha Stewart's Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn. I ran or walked in place while watching. Break. I played Frogger in Toy Town on Apple Arcade on Apple TV. We then watched on Hulu Basic Plan about two-thirds of Saturday Night Live with John Mulaney hosting for the 5th time. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. Trash management for the new rug. Late snack: roasted corn and green beans from frozen, water.
Mon Feb 28, 2022
Ran and walked in place to various YouTube videos. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, dried mango, and dried pineapple; water to drink. Calendar management. Sat outside in the back yard while working. MJML work: UFD prep. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Organized notes. Lunch: leftovers from last night. MJML work: UFC tweaks. Various task followup throughout the rest of the day. Created an account on Bananatag Academy. There were only four courses, and I didn't bother doing any of them since they haven't responded to the problem reports I submitted a long time ago which make their service unusable for me. Dinner at home with Patrick: Christine McMichael's lemon balsamic lentil salad. Water to drink. Afterwards we watched various YouTube trailers and videos and the remainder of the SNL episode we started yesterday (Mulaney #5). Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. Recharge dev site web work. Butcher block wood butter treatment. Late snacks: unsalted cashews, chickpea chips, Chobani greek yogurt with blueberries, water.