November 2024
Summary: Dia de los Muertos Cocktail Party at 15th Avenue House
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Fri Nov 1, 2024
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and toasted almonds, diced half banana; hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. Troubleshot stale request issues when attempting to log in to my websites, reported the problem to IT. Began reading Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Meaning Space Data Truth by Edward Tufte. Html email builds: one for Outlook event invitations, and another for a forthcoming announcement. Lunch: one navel orange. Helped Nathan D and Karen G troubleshoot two computer issues. Afternoon snack: two veggie spring rolls from Panda Express. UCSF Town Hall via Zoom. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Real Simple's black bean tostadas with sweet potato and poblanos, hot water. Afterwards we watched Wolfs on Apple TV+, and we both really liked it. Snacks during the film: chocolate, whole wheat crackers. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes.
Sat Nov 2, 2024
Breakfast at home: I prepared for myself a two-egg omelet with spinach, feta, some other kind of cheese, butter, and black pepper; side of two strips of bacon; hot water with squeeze of half lemon. Listened to podcast Literally, Gaysians s1:e7 (homepas and the gaysian party underground) while doing house chores: washed dishes, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the kitchen sink swivel spray head, changed air purifier pre-filters, changed the Brita pitcher filter, emptied DampRid containers of water and refilled them, changed the 9-volt battery in the kitchen scale. Lunch: leftovers from Perilla, hot water with lime juice. Patrick prepared a dark chocolate tequila bundt cake, and I helped by washing dishes. Cleaned more in the bathroom. Vacuumed various rooms. Cut my hair, showered. Dinner at home with Patrick: cold Chinese dishes from a vendor at the Millbrae Farmer's Market which Patrick visited this morning with Sam. Patrick and I rode Uber to a Dia de los Muertos Cocktail Party at 15th Avenue House. Hosts: Phil, Drew, Tai. In attendance: Jesse, Quyen, Dave, Chris, Nate, Shawn, Quan, Andrew, Tony, Bernard, Jana, Bernard A, Igor, Leo, Peter, Cesar, Luis, Kaden, Rafael, and more. Phil fried churros, mini shrimp egg rolls, and prepared other foods. Patrick's cake was a hit. Quyen prepared hot dipping chocolate for the churros. Rode Uber home. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: rye toast with butter, hot water with squeeze of lime.
Sun Nov 3, 2024
Breakfast at home with Patrick: I prepared for each of us two eggs over easy, two strips of applewood-smoked bacon, one slice of sourdough toast with butter. Half-caff coffee with milk for both. Later we rode Muni to the Castro to visit an open house at 2200 Market Street—just exploring whether we might be able to move to a new place. Afterwards we visited Kerry and Mom Ryan then Patrick and I walked to Thai House Express for lunch: fried chicken breast with rice and thai iced tea for Patrick, chinese broccoli with beef with rice and thai arnold palmer for me. I had never had a thai arnold palmer before, and I found it interesting. Presumably it is half thai iced tea and half lemonade, and it tasted like that. All food and service was delicious. Walked and rode Muni home. In the early evening, Patrick napped. I installed Arc browser for Mac by The Browser Company. Just trying it out after reading a story about it on the Apple App Store. Dinner at home with Patrick: Real Simple's black bean tostadas with sweet potato and poblanos, hot water. Zoom chat with Lani and Dex. Installed computer updates. Late snack: one pluot.
Mon Nov 4, 2024
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and toasted almonds, diced whole pluot; hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. Continued strategic plan update content build. Lunch by myself: turkey, pesto, and cheese sandwich from Starbucks; water from my water bottle. Styling work in Drupal: changes for strategic plan updates. Helped Katherine with edits to mostly photo captions and alt tags in a forthcoming news story. Began building the new year message for 2025. Afternoon snack from Moffitt Cafe: vanilla yogurt. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: baked salmon with creamy whole wheat orzo, hot water. Afterwards we watched
Tue Nov 5, 2024
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and toasted almonds, diced whole pluot; hot water. Worked from home. Re-reported SAML problems to UCSF IT. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. New year message build all day. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself leftover Real Simple black bean tostadas with sweet potato and poblanos, hot water. Listserv maintenance for James F. Responded to a diploma request. Walked and rode Muni with Patrick to dinner at Wilkommen. We shared the burger and fries, Brussels sprouts, and a naked sausage. Non-alcoholic beer for Patrick, lemonade for me. About $60. Afterwards we attended an election night watch party at The Academy. There were three viewing areas, and it was hard for us to find seats, but eventually we did on the patio. After a while someone turned on the heat lamps above our heads. We stayed for about 90 minutes, enjoying one round of wine. Kamala Harris trailed Donald Trump by a large margin the whole night. Walked and rode Muni home.