Thursday, August 8, 2024
Toe procedure recovery. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and toasted almonds, diced half banana, blueberries; hot water. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. Followup with Nadav A and team about web hosting for one of their projects. Small web edit for Arezou R. Credentials management all day. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a cauliflower burger with lettuce, tomato, cheddar, mayo and fries from frozen with pretzel cheese salt and ketchup; hot water. Academic Affairs content build. Patrick and I rode rideshare from home to Brenda's Soul Kitchen to meet Chris G and Andy T for dinner, drinks, and a show. Brenda's: We shared crawfish beignets. Patrick had red beans and rice. Andy had two-piece fried chicken. Chris had catfish and grits. I had chicken fried steak. Drinks: watermelon sweet tea, bloody mary, hurricane andrew. All food and drink was delicious, and service was excellent. Afterwards we walked to Nightbird for drinks: Blue Velvet (mezcal, fermented plum, pasilla, basil, lime) for Patrick, Rascally Rabbit (gin, carrot, tarragon syrup, suze, lemon) for Andy, Ralphie Boy (bourbon, raspberry, chamomile, lemon, citrus merengue) for Chris, and R U Nuts? (suntori whiskey, pistachio orgeat, alpine, cherry, lemon) for me. The menu is notable: mostly two colors (brown and black), probably inkjet, printed onto paper textured like linen. Instead of a list, it's an illustration of a plant with 12 leaves where each leaf has one of the drink items. In the lower left corner, it says: Parties over 4 people are not allowed even if they are split into smaller groups. We had trouble finding the entrance to Nightbird. It's a red door with a small circular window. The bar is tiny, perhaps eight seats and perhaps standing room for four. What it lacks in size it makes up in elegance and sophistication. All the glassware is notably beautiful. We enjoyed our drinks and the tiny space then departed for a show. At SFJAZZ we four saw Kid Koala: Storyville Mosquito. Patrick and I saw Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall a week ago, and this show was equally entertaining. Andy and Chris gave us a ride home.