Friday, November 7, 2025
Breakfast at home: one-egg sandwich on sourdough with cheddar, salt, pepper; hot water. Spent about two hours ironing Halloween costumes for a forthcoming party. Carpet spot cleaning with dish soap solution. Vacuumed the lower level. Deep-cleaned the little Flex vacuum. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: decided to remove all nearly all text from images in recently inserted image galleries so that the text could appear in the caption and be translated by ChatGPT. This provides a friendlier experience for non-English visitors. Styling for callouts in dark mode. Lunch: leftover chicken and rice with ginger scallion sauce, water. Cleaned the soles of my heated slippers with Dawn PowerWash. Later we walked to Twin Peaks for drinks with a subset of The Syndicate and friends. In attendance: Tim C, Kevin B, John B, Scot B. We sat in the mezzanine and many of us hadn't been either to this bar or to the mezzanine for years. We talked about Nancy Pelosi's recent announcement to retire and about how the government shutdown is affecting air traffic controllers and more. After a few rounds of drinks Kevin departed and the rest of us walked to dinner at Sausage Factory where we had a satisfying meal in the quieter back room. We started with arugula salad and cheesy bread with marinara. John had calzone, Patrick had chicken parm, I had penne primavera. I don't recall what Tim and Scot ordered. Too full for dessert. John and Patrick had leftovers. The group split up, and Patrick and I walked home. I washed a few dishes that had accumulated earlier in the day. Patrick went to bed and read his Kindle for a while before sleeping. I continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: galleries check, revised acne images to remove unnecessary horizontal whitespace, hover styling for Kybella linked image (with callouts). Made tweaks to my spam filters.