Sunday, September 8, 2024
Continued troubleshooting Time Machine problems. After reformatting the external hard drive, the new first backup took much longer than expected; overnight it had backed up only 100 GB which it should have done in one or two hours. I canceled the first backup and again attempted to run Disk First Aid, but it again got stuck on one of the steps. Slept in. Late breakfast: medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and toasted almonds, blueberries; hot water. Spent two minutes removing all occurrences of Google profiles urls (google.com/profiles/) from my address book. Napped with Patrick. Late lunch: small bowl of Martha Stewart's three-bean mild chili with cheddar to which we added leftover kahlua pork, sourdough toast with butter, sliced half peach, hot water. Patrick and I walked and rode Muni to the Castro. He visited Kerry and his mom. I met Paul for drinks at Lookout. I hadn't seen Paul in several years, so we did some catching up. We talked about health issues, Spain, Italy, Irene, Greece, Peter, Clovis, Nick, common friends, Romy, Jeff, David, UCSF, Herzog and de Meuron, and more. We walked to dinner at Thai Chef: beef curry with rice and water for Paul, crispy egg noodles with pork and hot tea for me. Afterwards we walked to Castro and Market Streets. He left to take the F train home. I walked to Beaux to meet Patrick on the sidewalk. We walked to Copper for a round of drinks. There we met a stranger whose name we could not recall but we think it started with O. He was recently arrived from a Latin American country and told us via Google Translate his harrowing story of coming to America. We also encountered or met Alonzo and Mahdi who were celebrating 10 years of friendship and told of their story meeting at Rich's in San Diego. Walked and rode Muni home.