Sunday, June 11, 2023

Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, diced peach; hot water. I accompanied Patrick to a Litquake panel of writers speaking about Craft and the Creative Life: How to Kill Your Darlings: The Art of Revision. We rode Muni to the Bookbinders Museum. I met Pat, Grant F, and Thomas. The talk was attended by about 20 persons and went well. Afterwards Patrick chatted with guests and others and signed copies of his book for sale. We walked and rode Muni to lunch specials at Red Jade: Patrick had sweet and sour chicken with steamed rice, I had cashew chicken with fried rice. Hot tea and ice water. Complimentary dessert: sesame ball and fortune cookie. My fortune: All progress occurs because people dare to be different. Patrick saved his fortune cookie for later. We walked to Kerry and Mom Ryan's and took photos in the garden because Mom just had her hair done and Patrick was dressed up for the writers panel. Patrick ran an errand then we got a drink at The Pilsner: aperol spritz for Patrick, margarita with salt for me. My phone battery was 15% and my hand warmer was nearly empty, so I turned my phone off because it had my Muni day pass on it. Rode Muni home, turning on my phone just to get past the pass checkpoint. Dinner: Rao's pepperoni pizza from frozen, water. Earlier today before Litquake Patrick and I had a traumatic encounter with a stranger who hounded us in an antagonizing manner for about a minute or two. It is now known as The Metreon Incident. If I choose to talk more about it later, I'll update this journal entry. It left us both quite unsettled and upset. No one was physically hurt. Also earlier today some family issues in Southern California arose involving an emergency room visit, and other family members nearby were on hand to provide assistance.