Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Breakfast at home: yogurt with sliced and toasted almonds, toasted coconut, flax meal, cacao nibs, and golden raisins; sourdough toast with salted butter; hot water. Troubleshot problems with duplicate mount points and permissions problems for a network drive. To resolve it, I had to restart both of our computers then on the shared drive reset permissions: ignore ownership on this drive, add me, set read and write for me, apply to enclosed items. Sewing all day: I altered three boys pants that I purchased from J. Crew Factory; the crotches were too low. Lunch: medium romaine salad with sliced grape tomato, maui onion ranch, grated parm reg, homemade sourdough croutons; hot water. Dessert: one slice of dried peach. In the afternoon Patrick and I tended to an emergency door hinge repair. Walked to dinner with Patrick at The Rustic, or now known as Tavorna Rustica: glass of house red for Patrick, glass of orange macabeu for me, focaccia with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, campanelle bolognese with oxtail ragu, fried chicken with peas and radish salad. No dessert. All food and drink were delicious. Service by Jonny P was very good. Walked home. We watched Andor s2:e10 on Disney+ then part of Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. I unpacked a new light bulb for the new three-legged floor lamp in the bedroom, installed it, and tested it. It works fine, and the lamp is quite bright. I realized only now that one ceiling light in the living room was not dimming as expected because I had forgotten to change the bulb from traditional to LED. I made the change and now it's fixed. I checked on the attempt to affix the dog shower handle holder to the wall with silicone sealant, and it has failed. Troubleshot and resolved a mail delivery problem, which was difficult to resolve because it had two overlapping causes. 1. I had created a mail filter without realizing it was going to be problematic, and 2. I had been pointing captured messages to a spam folder that somehow did not exist or perhaps I somehow did not have access to.