Friday, October 31, 2025
Breakfast at home: plain yogurt with one sliced banana, toasted coconut, flax meal, roasted and slivered almonds, mexican vanilla; hot water. Ironed Halloween costumes. Tested the new brass quick connect hose connectors set. All was fine except there was a leak at the faucet, which I resolved using teflon tape. Party preparation all morning. Published two new web pages for Recharge Medical then also added them to the dev website. After making a home network change things were broken and I had forgotten that I had encountered and resolved the same problem in March. Lunch: delivery from The Little Chihuahua via DoorDash: regular pollo asado burrito for Patrick, regular carne asada burrito no beans for me. I spent over an hour trying to get an Apple HomePod trying to rejoin the network, failing in seemingly every way possible. The fix was to temporarily turn off WPA3 and reset the Homepod and rejoin it. Halloween party at home from 6 to 11 p.m., which was event-adjacent to Castro Night Market from 5 to 10 p.m. We were worried that our place would become too crowded with a large number of attendees, but it turned out okay. In attendance: me, Patrick, Tai, Drew, Phil, Chris, Nate, Jonathan, Quyen, Dave, Scott T, Andy M, John B, John T, JY, Emery, Ray F, Galen, Dave R, Ryan M, Jeff N, Christopher N, Keith R, Chris G, Andy T, Tyler, Scot B, Dan B, Marck (who happened to be in town from Germany), Shawn, Quan, Suzan, Simon, Iona, David M, Jeff C, Cristiano F, another Jeff C, Paul, Irene, Stephanie, Sabine, Tony H, Ken S, Tim D, Tom H, Gary, John R, and possibly more that I couldn't recall. Patrick made seven desserts: Apple Dapple Cake with pecans and caramel glaze, Dutch Cocoa Cookies, Pistachio Cake with pistachio cream and toasted pistachios, Scotcheroos (a honey, peanut butter, butterscotch, chocolatey twist on a rice krispie treat), Pumpkin Cheesecake with a gingersnap-walnut crust, Orange Cardamom Olive Oil Cake with candied orange slices and honey glaze, Whiskey-Soaked Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake.