January 2026
Summary: Brock and Spencer at The Academy; Dear San Francisco at Club Fugazi; Popeye's and marble repair at the home of Tai, Drew, and Phil; Nate visits from Portland; launched a new website for Recharge Medical
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Thu Jan 1, 2026
Slept in a lot. Lunch at home: veggie omelette with celery, carrot, and red onion. Long nap. We watched half of Stranger Things s5:e8 (season finale) on Netflix. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp and pineapple tacos. Dessert: sweets left over from NYE. Finished watching Stranger Things s5:e8 (season finale) on Netflix then watched Stranger Things finale extras on YouTube and other YouTube videos. Patrick went to bed. Trash management. I uploaded NYE photos to Flickr and began tagging them. Caught up on journaling. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.
Fri Jan 2, 2026
Foot care. Breakfast: plain yogurt with blueberries, diced pineapple, toasted coconut, flax meal; two small slices of sourdough toast with peanut butter, hot water. Patrick and I did a short urban hike in our neighborhood to Corona Heights Park, the Vulcan Stairway, and the Duck Fountain. Nap. Lunch: leftovers: Tommy's beef lasagne, hot water. Finished tagging NYE photos and shared them. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: added favicons and skip links. Patrick napped. We walked to Bar 49 for happy hour with John B and Emery. After two rounds, we walked to dinner at Thai House Express. We shared corn fritters, pla sam rod, ka moo a la carte, beef kee mao, pumpkin chicken curry, two orders of jasmine rice. Home. Patrick went to bed. I removed rust from rivets on range hood baffles with rust remover. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later. Today Patrick began taking the Christmas tree down: ornaments removal.
Sat Jan 3, 2026
Late breakfast: granola with milk and diced pineapple, leftover hash brown casserole, one slice of bacon that Patrick had cooked yesterday, hot water. Two home repair projects with SteelStik. #1: the right handle of the 4th drawer down on the right side of the mule chest had broken. A small cylindrical piece holding one side of the handle had broken off the main larger piece. I reassembled it, then applied SteelStick to the back, hopefully permanently holding it in place. #2: I sealed the tops of the two rivets on two range hood baffles I worked on yesterday with SteelStik. Vacuumed almost of all of the upper and lower levels—everything except the bedroom and primary bathroom. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website all day: error 404 page, translated skip link text. Dinner at home with Patrick: spinach and sausage tortellini soup, water. We watched YouTube then Fallout s2:e3 on Amazon Prime Video. Resolved problems with chosen voices in my shortcuts in Apple Shortcuts which was much easier to do on the MacBook Pro than on my iPhone 16 Pro. We watched Big Mouth s2:e7 on Netflix. Today Patrick and I finished a TJ's set of 12 caramels game where you try to guess the flavor. Patrick got 5 out of 12 correct. I got 3 out of 12 correct. Patrick went to bed. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.
Sun Jan 4, 2026
Slept in. I completed the drawer handle repair after yesterday's SteelStik work. Breakfast: toasted everything bagel with chive cream cheese; hot water. Patrick began disassembling the artificial Christmas tree. Lunch: chicken-flavored instant ramen with baby corn, white onion, mushrooms, carrot, one egg, cilantro; hot water. HOA paperwork all afternoon. Dinner at home with Patrick: vegetarian enchiladas with refried beans, hot water. Afterwards we watched YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Continued reading from My Absolute Darling by Patrick Tallent, chapter 3. I had started chapters 1 and 2 of this book several weeks ago and am only now picking it up again. Started the dishwasher. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.
Mon Jan 5, 2026
Patrick discovered this morning that the two known, occasional leaks in the garage are leaking again. One above the water heater and the other above the stacked chairs. Also, two exterior stairwell lights are not lighting properly. Breakfast: leftover hash brown casserole, one slice of leftover bacon, hot water. Lunch: leftover vegetarian enchiladas. HOA paperwork. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: added stying and javascript so that the hours table highlights today. Afternoon snack: one sumo orange. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover spinach and sausage tortellini soup, hot water, white wine. Dessert: TJ's candy-coated pretzel. We watched YouTube then The Studio s1:e1 on Apple TV. Patrick went to bed. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: same as earlier today, enable search cache, began setting up rss feeds for five languages with a custom rss template. Late snack: salted cashews. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.
Tue Jan 6, 2026
Breakfast at home: two soft-scrambled eggs, two beef sausage patties, leftover hash brown casserole. Patrick reported a problem with the secondary bathroom toilet tank flap. I'm so tired of needing to fix things. Felt very lazy today and did almost nothing. Lunch: plain yogurt with blueberries, toasted coconut, flax meal, toasted and slivered almonds; water. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken salad sandwiches with creamy tomato soup, hot water, white wine. We watched YouTube then The Studio s1:e2 on Apple TV then two thirds of Laugh It Forward Presents Jimmy O. Yang with Nick Guerra, Andrea Jin, and Derrick Keener. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: continued rss feed setup.
Wed Jan 7, 2026
Breakfast: leftover hash brown casserole, one turkey sausage link, two soft-scrambled eggs with diced tomato, hot water. Midmorning Patrick and I walked and rode Muni to browse the nice things at Ken Fulk Gallery. Afterwards we walked and rode Muni to Stonestown Galleria where we purchased wedding rings. Lunch at Kura Sushi: 10 plates, hot green tea. Walked and rode Muni home. Patrick napped. I began the mailbox numbers replacement project and continued the door numbers restoration project. A while ago I purchased one-inch-tall metal numbers on Etsy to replace the vinyl numbers on our mailbox flaps which had worn off almost completely. I sanded the mailbox numbers with 100- then 400-grit sandpaper. The door numbers restoration project began some months ago; I had sanded our two door numbers (upper and lower) with 100-grit sandpaper. I resanded the door numbers today with 400-grit sandpaper. Carefully wiped mailbox numbers and door numbers clean. Spraypainted the mailbox numbers with Rustoleum Painter's Touch 2X Ultracover Matte Clear, two coats. I used the same spray to manually paint the door numbers with a light coat using a thin artist's paintbrush. While waiting for the coats to dry I turned over our wet door mats to let the water drain, and I swept in front of the home and in the entry. I gave the mailbox numbers a second coat. I left the door numbers with only one coat. In the evening Patrick and I walked to The Academy for dinner and Brock and Spencer. Dinner in the Speakeasy with cocktails: sausage and mushroom flatbread, chicken bites with bronco sauce and vegetable sticks. We chatted with Tommy. Afterwards we switched to the east wing room for another round of cocktails and the evening's entertainment, singer Jason Brock with Dee Spencer on piano. Tired, we left at the break and walked home.
Thu Jan 8, 2026
Pre-breakfast: half banana. Breakfast: I prepared a veggie fritatta with eggs, celery, carrot, baby corn, tomato, green onion. I ate a piece of it with the last of this batch's leftover hash brown casserole. The hash brown casserole recipe I used was Stacey Lastoe's on Southern Cooking's website. The quantity of butter in the recipe—1.5 sticks or 3/4 cup—made me feel almost sick to my stomach with each piece I ate. If I do this recipe again, I'll probably try it with only 1/4 cup, or half of one stick, of butter. Otherwise it's delicious. Continued the mailbox numbers replacement project and the door numbers restoration project. Door numbers got another coat of matte clear, and I'm considering them done. Mailbox numbers got sprayed with matte clear on the back, and later after it was dry, I realized my mistake: the fronts of the numbers stuck to the advertisement newsprint that I used underneath it, ruining the fronts. I resanded the fronts and resprayed with two coats, this time putting a white waxy paperboard from a used and washed takeout container underneath instead of newsprint. Swept the patio of plant and tree debris. Washed windows: both sides of the windowed door from the office to the patio, the outside of the primary bathroom window. Swept the exterior stairwell from our upper level down. Nap. In the evening Patrick and I walked and rode Muni to dinner at Flour + Water Pizzeria: we shared: beets and citrus appetizer (with stracciatella and pistachio), The Conrad pizza (taleggio, mozz, mushrooms, kale, red onion, roasted garlic). Melone cocktail for Patrick, spritz for me. There was a long delay between the appetizer and the pizza. Service by Joyce B was otherwise good. Afterwards we walked to Club Fugazi for Dear San Francisco, a performance of circus acts in the spirit of San Francisco. We hadn't been back to this space since the last week of Beach Blanket Babylon. The performance was well-executed and a lot of fun with great energy and heart. I can't remember saying "wow!" this many times in 90 minutes. We shared drinks and a $10 bowl of popcorn which we will probably never do again since the bowl was very small—about two big handfuls—and definitely not worth the price. But the show is terrific and highly recommended. Rode Uber home.
Fri Jan 9, 2026
Breakfast: Schlock sesame bagel with the last of chive cream cheese and also peanut butter. Because this bagel was so thick, I cut it into thirds horizontally instead of just half. Hot water to drink. Attended to clothes washing and drying that Patrick had started earlier. Washer deep-clean with vinegar. Found the tub clean setting on our washer that we are supposed to use instead of deep-cleaning with vinegar. Drained the drain pump. Attempted to clean the drain pump filter, but it leaked a small pool of water that got everywhere even though I was expecting it. Figured out how to do this properly with help from ChatGPT: completely drain using the hose first. Use a takeout container lid or anything very shallow that holds water. Use a small bucket to empty the lid after it collects. Do multiple rounds like this—about four. After the hose is completely drained, then open the filter. A little water will still come out. Check the filter for any objects such as coins. Clean the filter with a brush. House chores: vacuumed the upper level, cleaned the primary bathroom toilet. Recharge Medical email campaign to immigration lawyers: don't wait to complete I-693 exams. Late lunch: leftover chicken salad on toasted hamburger bun, tortilla strips, water. Monthly updates and minor edits for websites. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: continued feeds setup: rss, atom, json. Patrick and I walked to Churchill for happy hour then dinner with a subset of The Syndicate. Tim C, Andy M, Scott T, Scot B, Timmy D, JY, Adrian, Ray F, Jose C, Emery. After drinks, most of us walked to Poesia for dinner, which included shared red wine and various appetizers. Patrick's main was pappardelle verdi al ragù della nonna (home-made spinach pappardelle, grandma style bolognese beef-pork ragù, Parmigiano-Reggiano). My main was filetto di maiale (guanciale wrapped pork tenderloin, russet potatoes and bell pepper). A fine evening. Walked home.
Sat Jan 10, 2026
Breakfast: one hash brown patty from frozen with a small piece of leftover veggie fritatta, half banana, hot water. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website all day: finished feeds setup: rss, atom, json; ensured that images from recent email campaigns were hosted on the new site and redirected correctly; added main image and metadata description for the sitemap page (but it's not getting recognized and I don't know why yet); added a default image for SEO. Lunch: two bean and cheese tacos on small corn tortillas with green onions, hot water. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick made pizza with Whole Foods pizza dough with soppressato and basil and balsamic glaze. Hot water to drink. Afterwards we watched YouTube then Fallout s2:e4 on Amazon Prime Video then The Studio s1:e3 on Apple TV. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: implemented old redirects.
Sun Jan 11, 2026
Breakfast: one hash brown patty from frozen with a small piece of leftover veggie fritatta, one small turkey sausage link, hot water. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website all morning: began work on adding related pages. Lunch: Patrick and I rode Uber to 15th Avenue House for lunch with Tai, Drew, and Phil. They ordered Popeye's fried chicken with red beans and rice and chicken wraps and served coffee with egg nog and other drinks. I helped them make repairs to small chips in their kitchen marble counters. We reviewed the new website in development for Recharge Medical, which is close to being done. Rode Uber home. Later Patrick and I ate dinner: leftover pizza from last night. We watched F1 on Apple TV and enjoyed it a lot more than we had expected. Patrick went to bed. Google Meet chat with Dex and Lani. I continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: more related pages work, changed blog post dates from original post date to last modified date. Troubleshot permission problems on an external hard drive connected to Patrick's docking station. Archived website snapshots.
Mon Jan 12, 2026
The shower rack in the primary bathroom had been falling regularly because its rubber parts—two suction cups and a half ring—holding it were failing, so I cleaned the rubber parts with Goof Off. Breakfast: one hash brown patty from frozen with a small piece of leftover veggie fritatta, one small turkey sausage link, hot water. Inkjet printer maintenance: replaced the photo black cartridge, which had run empty. Patrick and I moved the Christmas tree box to the garage. House chores: cleaned the kitchen floor mats with dish soap and water; removed rust from a cast iron pizza pan with Rustoleum rust remover then washed, dried, and reseasoned it; washed the handheld vacuum filter then let it dry on the balcony. Midmorning snack: one sumo orange. Smoke alarm documentation, testing, and maintenance. Installed the smoke and CO alarm we brought with us from our old home because we purchased it separately. Lunch: two small corn tortilla tacos with refried beans, diced deli roast chicken breast, mixed grated cheeses, and sliced green onions; hot water. Troubleshot problems with the dishwasher soap dispenser door not closing properly and with the rinse aid compartment looking half full after filling it and running the dishwasher once. The rinse aid was set to 4. I cleaned it with vinegar and dish soap solution then changed the setting to 2. Neither compartment appears to leak. Afternoon snack: salted cashews, one small piece of dark chocolate. Dinner at home with Patrick: fancy spaghetti-os (anelletti) with mini beef meatballs, hot water, red wine. Afterwards we watched YouTube then Marcello Hernández: American Boy on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen.
Tue Jan 13, 2026
Late breakfast: Southern Living's Breakfast Potatoes by Ann Taylor Pittman, the last piece of leftover veggie frittata, hot water. Walked to Cliff's Variety and back for plumbing parts. Replaced the office bathroom toilet flapper. Lunch: cheese tortellini in Better Cheddar cheese sauce with spinach, hot water. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: related pages: translated heading to four other languages, manually added related pages for more pages. Patrick and I walked to dinner at Copper: fried catfish sandwich and fries for Patrick, fried chicken sandwich and fries for me. Happy hour margaritas for both. Walked home. We watched YouTube. Patrick went to bed. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: related pages: manually added related pages for more pages. Shopped online for a new card holder with belt clip.
Wed Jan 14, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes, 2 eggs fried, hot water. Swept in front of the home. Continued the mailbox numbers replacement project all day; removed old numbers, sanded the mailbox flap, then applied new numbers for our mailbox with silicone sealant. More concrete cracks repair, including sealing a crack in front of the planter where a lot of ants were trafficking. Lunch: leftover fancy spaghetti-os (anelletti) with mini beef meatballs, water. Created, printed, laminated, and posted explanatory safety signs for the boiler and water heater in the garage. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from The Little Chihuahua via DoorDash: pineapple agua fresca and TLC regular burrito (whole wheat, chile verde chicken, whole black beans, no mexican rice, add guacamole) for Patrick, watermelon mint agua fresca and old-school tostada salad (whole black beans, add pollo asado) for me. This meal was disappointing in that the drinks were missing, the food was barely warm, and my tostada salad had something spicy in it—probably the mango salsa—but there was no indication that it had something spicy. We got a refund for the missing drinks, but still. We watched YouTube and The Studio s1:e4 on Apple TV and Fallout s2:e5 on Amazon Prime Video. Patrick went to bed. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.
Thu Jan 15, 2026
Neti pot. Breakfast at home: leftover breakfast potatoes, two small turkey sausage links, tangerine juice, hot water. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website all day: related pages: manually added related pages for more pages, implemented standalone search page, began resolving redirect chains in .htaccess. Lunch: leftover fancy spaghetti-os (anelletti) with mini beef meatballs, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: caprese salad with balsamic glaze with warm bread. We watched Agatha Christie's Seven Dials s1:e1 on Netflix then Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age s1:e5 (season finale) on Apple TV then YouTube. Patrick went to bed. More redirect chains resolution. Facetime and Zoom with Lani for several hours to troubleshoot duplicate calendar items and calendar items that won't delete. Late snack: a banana.
Fri Jan 16, 2026
Late breakfast at home: I prepared a veggie fritatta with broccoli, spinach, white onion, and green onions and breakfast potatoes with vegetables (sliced zucchini, white onion, oregano). Hot water and tangerine juice to drink. Patrick and I walked to Cliff's Variety for garden supplies and a screw extractor. No lunch. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: finished resolving redirect chains in .htaccess, began print stylesheet. Afternoon snack: one mint cookie. Dinner at home with Patrick: teriyaki tofu and broccoli with steamed rice, hot water, Boulevardiers. We watched The Studio s1:e5 on Apple TV then YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: print stylesheet. Late snack: one sumo orange.
Sat Jan 17, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes with leftover fritatta, small side of blueberries with local honey, hot water, tangerine juice. Set up a new wallet. Old wallet: black El Portal card holder with belt clip. New wallet: similar, Bulliant brick brown 7490. Trash management. Unloaded photos from my iPhone 16 Pro. Edited new content for Recharge Medical. Lunch at home with Patrick: TJ's kimbap, tangerine juice. In the evening I rode Uber to 15th Avenue House, then Drew drove Tai, Phil, and me to Quyen and Dave's for a gathering called Visitor from the North. In attendance: Nate, Quyen, Dave, Drew, Tai, Phil, Jen, Shawn, Quan, Fei, Chris G (whom I hadn't seen in years), Mark, Jonathan, and a few others I did not meet or did not recall their names. We talked about dogs (leonbergers, weimaraners, training, behaviors, and more), politics and the economy(everything happening in the news right now), travel (Japan, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and more), various relationships (friends, parents), airlines (ZipAir, French Bee). Dinner was Popeye's fried chicken not spicy, pickled vegetables, Quyen's fried rice, and a variety of sauces and hot sauces. Two desserts: tiramisu and tres leches cake. Tai drove us home. A fine evening.
Sun Jan 18, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes with leftover fritatta, small side of blueberries with local honey, hot water, tangerine juice. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: print stylesheet. Lunch: Patrick and I walked to Tanglad and shared fresh rolls and garlic noodles with five-spice chicken. Thai iced teas for both. Our receipt said our server's name was Megamind. Walked home. Continued the mailbox numbers replacement project: did the mailbox flap for the upstairs unit. Swept in front of the home and in the outer stairwell. Used dish soap solution on the ground in front of the home and in the outer stairwell to remove dead insects, dead and hardened worms, and dirt that sweeping did not remove. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: added new I-693 language from our last email campaign to the I-693 pages in the new website, finished testing the print stylesheet in Firefox, finished implementing Adrian Roselli's getLinks() script to gather link urls as footnotes at the end of the printed pages with two modifications that I had previously suggested and a new modification created today to make it translate the Links label into the four non-English languages we are using when appropriate, began OpenGraph review, removed Twitter/X metadata twitter:site using Javascript (since we lost control of our Twitter account), removed unnecessary code from screen stylesheet. Late afternoon drink: tangerine juice. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp and pesto risotto with balsamic glaze, hot water, white wine. We watched YouTube then SNL s51:e10 on YouTube then YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Late snack: one sumo orange. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: tested with javascript off and found some issues.
Mon Jan 19, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes with leftover fritatta, hot water. Remounted the spare smoke and CO2 detector on the living room ceiling. It had fallen off a few days ago because I didn't use enough sticky dots. I used sticky dots instead of screws because I'm afraid of putting holes in the ceiling because our building has hydronic radiant floor heating. Mended by hand sewing two pieces of clothing: red Go Softwear lounge short and tan Crewcuts corduroy jeans, both previously altered. Lunch: chinese noodles cooked in leftover chicken-shrimp broth with broccoli from frozen, green onions, tofu. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: frozen dinner: TJ’s chicken shawarma bowls, hot water, white wine. We watched YouTube then The Studio s1:e6 on Apple TV then Agatha Christie's Seven Dials s1:e2 on Netflix.
Tue Jan 20, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes with leftover fritatta, hot water. Removed, resanded, and reapplied the mailbox numbers for our unit because the clear coat had gotten disfigured a bit in the original application because the cardboard I had used while clamping had stuck to it somehow. This time, I'll not clamp then reapply the clear coat after the silicone sealant sets. Walked to a dentist appointment. Lunch by myself at Pacific Catch: salmon chowder with bread, Thai Brussels sprouts, arnold palmer, water. Walked to a doctor appointment. Walked and rode Muni home. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: resolved some small accessibility issues and investigated some others that turned out to not be easy to resolve. Dinner at home with Patrick: creamy garlic chicken and spinach skillet with warm bread, hot water, white wine. We watched YouTube. Troubleshot problems with our Apple TV which seemed to stop working. After a restart and a lot of waiting it began working again. Patrick went to bed. I watched YouTube more on my own then processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen.
Wed Jan 21, 2026
Breakfast: leftover fritatta on toasted english muffin, side of blueberries with local honey and toasted coconut, hot water. For exercise and fresh air, Patrick and I walked 17th Street to Stanyan and back. All day: shopped online for desk setup. For lunch, Patrick and I walked to Morning Due Cafe where we met Kerry and Mom Ryan. Mom had a grilled chicken sandwich and fruit salad and hot almond milk with almond syrup, tuna melt with no cheese and hot coffee with half and half for Kerry, cajun fritatta with italian sausage and sourdough toast and latte for Patrick, bbq burger with fries and hot chai for me. Walked home. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Krua Thai: pork potstickers, crispy chicken no rice, crispy pad thai with shrimp, two thai iced teas. Afterwards we watched Fallout s2:e6 on Amazon Prime Video then Agatha Christie's Seven Dials s1:e3 (season finale) on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.
Thu Jan 22, 2026
Breakfast: I prepared a variation on Martha Stewart's corned beef egg cups. Side of blueberries with local honey and toasted and slivered almonds. Hot water. Recoated both mailbox numbers with matte clear Rustoleum clear coat. Mailbox numbers replacement project is complete. Attempted to remove a screw with a broken head for a perforated sidewalk drainage grate aka air vent cover using a screw extractor, failed. Sam picked up Patrick and me, then we drove to Daly City for lunch at Nick the Greek: chicken bowls for Sam and Patrick, steak gyro, Zagori Greek sparkling water for Patrick, and Greek sour cherry drink for me. Afterwards we shopped at Home Depot, acquiring a four-foot-tall dracaena cane plant We stopped for beverages at a nearby Philz Coffee. Sam drove us home. We encountered troublesome traffic at different points along the way including a stopped vehicle on I-280 and the remains of a collision at Clipper Street and Portola Drive. Later we weren't hungry enough for dinner. Patrick ate a slice of toast and I ate nothing. We watched The Studio s1:e7 on Apple TV and YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes, cleaned the kitchen, then started the dishwasher. Archived documents. Gathered tax filing paperwork.
Fri Jan 23, 2026
Breakfast: I prepared for myself two dishes. 1: a fritatta with spinach, broccoli from frozen, diced leftover chicken breast from a previous meal, diced shallots, sliced green onion. 2: oven-roasted breakfast potatoes with red onion. I used the convection fan to save a bit of time. All day: continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: split environment configurations between development and production, tested css and js pipelines, html and css validation. Lunch: stelline with lemon juice and dill, one slice of toasted Japanese milk bread with butter, hot water. Cocktails: mezcal margaritas. Late dinner at home with Patrick: TJ's steak and stout meat pie, leftover shrimp and pesto risotto with balsamic glaze, hot water. We watched YouTube then Max Headroom s1:e1 on Plex with ads. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. I continued working on the website.
Sat Jan 24, 2026
Breakfast: leftover Martha Stewart's corned beef egg cups, hot water. All day: continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: html and css validation: making alt tags shorter, resolving broken links and table issues. Lunch: leftovers from Krua Thai, hot water. Dinner: ravioli in tomato vegetable soup, hot water, red wine. Dessert: we shared three Whole Foods deli cookies. Afterwards we watched Joe List: Small Ball on Amazon Prime Video then Alex Hunnold's climb of Taipei 101 on Netflix (some live and some after the event ended) then Max Headroom things on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. More website work.
Sun Jan 25, 2026
Breakfast: leftovers from two mornings ago, one sumo orange, hot water. All day: continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: built a table of canonical urls in 5 languages, shortened slugs for many pages of the two Chinese languages, replaced canonical urls for non-English jsonld and content, linkchecking, more validation. Lunch: pastrami sandwich on sourdough with lettuce and mayo, hot water. Dinner at home with Patrick: butternut, zucchini, yellow squash tart with lettuce salad; hot water; red wine. Troubleshot an issue with YouTube. We watched The Studio s1:e8 on Apple TV then Big Mouth s2:e8 on Netflix then we watched part of Hit Man on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes then started the dishwasher. Google Meet chat with Dex and Lani. More cleaning in the kitchen. More website work: prep for golive. Late snack: Boulder Canyon potato chips, water. Cleaned the toilet in the office bathroom.
Mon Jan 26, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes with leftover fritatta, hot water. All day: continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: added three new blog posts in five languages, added more audience-specific images, more prep for golive. The site launches! I send a followup message to the team. Dinner at home with Patrick: gumbo ya-ya leftovers with rice and cornbread, hot water. We finished watching Hit Man on Netflix then watched The Studio s1:e9 on Apple TV. Patrick went to bed. I fixed a small problem I discovered with the website then processed dirty dishes then started the dishwasher.
Tue Jan 27, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes with leftover fritatta, hot water. Troubleshot problems with the new Recharge Medical website which launched yesterday. Suspected problem: cron jobs? I made a change that should not have fixed it and it was fixed. Lunch with Patrick and a subset of The Syndicate at Hot Johnnie's. Patrick had crispy chicken milanese with Mexican Coca-Cola, I had Pure Leaf unsweetened iced tea and smoked bbq pork ribs with jasmine rice and cole slaw. Researched solutions for pullout platforms to mount the inkjet printer and the laser printer inside one of our Ikea Tunhem cabinets. In the evening, Patrick made us cocktails: prickly pear and elderflower martini (prickly pear and orange blossom gin, elderflower liqueur, luxardo maraschino liqueur, lemon juice). Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp rolls with potato chips, water. We watched The Studio s1:e10 (season finale) then Shrinking s3:e1 both on Apple TV then Big Mouth s2:e9 on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.
Wed Jan 28, 2026
Breakfast: leftover breakfast potatoes with leftover fritatta, hot water. Installed iOS 26.2.1 on my iPhone 16 Pro and iPadOS 26.2.1 on my iPad Air. Tweaked .htaccess for the recently-new Recharge Medical website. All day: did research for the printers in cabinets project. Lunch: leftover ravioli, hot water. Changed the light bulb at top of stairs inside from incandescent to LED after figuring out how to reach it by putting two feet on the flat part of the stair railing and using one hand against the wall. Midafternoon snack: Patrick made pesto rolls using pre-made TJ's dough and pesto leftover from a previous meal. Dinner at home with Patrick: vegetable curry over steamed rice, hot water. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. We watched Fallout s2:e7 on Amazon Prime Video then Palm Beach s1:e1 on Apple TV.
Thu Jan 29, 2026
Breakfast: leftover fritatta, pastrami and mixed cheeses on sourdough toast, hot water. Tweaked more configuration files for the recently-new Recharge Medical website. Research for replacing undercabinet lighting. Lunch: leftover squash tart, hot water. Dinner at home with Patrick: butternut squash and supergreens mezzi rigatoni, pesto rolls, hot water. Afterwards we watched YouTube then Big Mouth s2:e10 (season finale) on Netflix then we rewatched John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. Recharge Medical website: more performance adjustments: changed fonts so that only SC fonts load for Simplified Chinese, only TC fonts load for Traditional Chinese, and only Latin fonts load for English, Spanish, and Vietnamese; reworked img srcsets.
Fri Jan 30, 2026
Breakfast: leftover fritatta, one hash brown from frozen, hot water. All day: troubleshot issues with the newly launched Recharge Medical website. Lunch: leftover squash tart, hot water. Walked to dinner at Sausage Factory with Patrick. We shared a small caesar salad and a small sausage and mushroom pizza. Red wine for Patrick, water for me. Walked home. We watched Palm Royale s1:e2 on Apple TV.
Sat Jan 31, 2026
Breakfast: leftover squash tart, hot water. Vacuumed the entire home. Wrote a short letter on a paper card. All day: troubleshot issues with the newly launched Recharge Medical website. Lunch with Patrick: one slice each of leftover pizza from last night, hot water. Walked to the post office and back. Dinner with Patrick at Starbelly to use coupons we had received on the last Wine Walk. Cocktails (free with the coupons): Purple Rain for Patrick, Salty Dog for me. We shared deviled eggs, small caesar salad, and roasted half chicken. Dessert: peanut butter and chocolate sundae. All food, drink, and service were very good. Walked home. We watched YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I joined Patrick in bed a few hours later.