Friday, May 9, 2025
Breakfast at home: I prepared for myself yogurt with sliced and toasted almonds, toasted coconut, and blueberries; english muffin with salted butter; hot water. Cleaned the toaster oven again since it was slightly smoking again today. Organized and archived paper documents and digital files. Uploaded photos to Flickr. Lunch at Wilkommen. Patrick had a bratwurst and side of fries with arnold palmer. I had a corndog and side of fries with lemonade. Shopping: Ferguson, Black and Gold. We stopped for coffee drinks at Sextant Coffee Roasters. Patrick left to visit Kerry and his mom. I shopped again at Ferguson then visited the Queer Mall for the first time. Walked home, encountering Patrick along the way. Rested. Rode Lyft to dinner at 15th Avenue House with Phil, Drew, Tai, Tony Q, Tadija, and Patrick. Phil made seafood gumbo, blackened rockfish, garlic bread, cheese bread, caesar salad, roasted cruciferous vegetables. Tony and Tadija brought roast duck from Wing Lee (501 Clement St). Patrick made a Brazilian carrot cake. The carrot cake we are most familiar with is two layers with cream frosting in between and on top, and you can see the flecks of carrots in the slice profile. In contrast, Brazilian carrot cake is a single layer, the carrot is pulverized instead of grated, and the cake is frosted with chocolate. All food and drink were delicious, and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. There was a long and philosophical discussion over one's decision to have or not have children. Rode Uber home.