February 2026
Summary: Dinner with Patrick, Sam, Dom, Felix, and David at Josh and Sheening's; Patrick and I get married on the same day as Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year, and the ring of fire eclipse, Tim's 50th Birthday at Simon and Arthur's.
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Sun Feb 1, 2026
Breakfast: I prepared then ate oven-roasted potatoes and a veggie fritatta then stored the leftovers for future days. Hot water to drink. All day: troubleshot issues with the newly launched Recharge Medical website. Skipped lunch because my stomach wasn't feeling well. In the afternoon I edited some pitch copy for Patrick then began work on the printers in cabinet project. One inkjet printer and one laser printer are to be mounted inside an Ikea Tunhem cabinet on platforms that slide out. At first we couldn't figure out how to adjust one shelf higher since we needed more vertical space for the printers to fit on top of a piece of wood mounted to drawer slides. Patrick figured out that nails in the back held the shelf in place. Once the nails were removed, the shelf slides out the front. Next I cut a hole slightly larger than 1.5 inches in diameter in the lower right corner of the back of the shelf using a hole saw attachment for my drill. I prepped the hole on both sides with painter's tape to prevent splitting. I sanded the hole edges with 150-grit sandpaper. A piece of the fiberboard was peeling from the hole edge, so I glued it in place with Elmer's glue. We moved the cabinet back against the wall since I don't have the other parts for the project yet. Lately Patrick has been reorganizing a lot of things since when we moved in we just put things where they could fit and it wasn't very logical. He also recently unwrapped four new Bauhaus art prints for the office walls. New storage baskets for the bottom shelves in the Ikea Tunhems were also put into service recently. Dinner at home with Patrick: roasted salmon and veggies seasoned with sumac on a bed of labneh, hot water. We watched YouTube then half of Bob the Drag Queen: This is Wild on Hulu. Patrick went to bed. More website work. Updates for home devices. Late snack: one sumo orange, water. To bed late.
Mon Feb 2, 2026
Breakfast: plain greek yogurt with one sliced banana, toasted and slivered almonds, and toasted coconut; one english muffin with salted butter; hot water. All day: continued small fixes for the Recharge Medical website. Nap. Late lunch: leftover salmon with roasted vegetables, hot water. In the afternoon I installed two Etechmart wall hooks in the office closet for Patrick to hang exercise equipment. Dinner: I prepared farfalle with broccoli with marinara sauce from a jar with brioche bun with salted butter. We watched the remainder of Bob the Drag Queen: This is Wild on Hulu then The Simpsons s37:e2 on Hulu. Late snack: popcorn from the silicone microwave popcorn popper.
Tue Feb 3, 2026
Breakfast: leftover frittata with leftover roasted potatoes, hot water. All day: troubleshot issues with the newly launched Recharge Medical website. Late lunch: rice with leftover roast chicken and leftover vegetable curry, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: Bi-Rite prepared salad with chicken, warmed baguette slices with butter, hot water. We watched Shrinking s3:e2 on Apple TV then Fallout s2:e8 (season finale) on Amazon Prime Video. Patrick went to bed. I watched YouTube then read another chapter in Gabriel Tallent's My Absolute Darling which I have been reading (and not always remembering to say I did here).
Wed Feb 4, 2026
Breakfast: leftover vegetable curry and rice, hot water. All morning: troubleshot issues with the newly launched Recharge Medical website, updated pages to reflect a job opening, posted the job opening to their Facebook account. Patrick and I wrote a reply to Dan following receipt of a handwritten note yesterday. Lunch: leftover salmon with roasted vegetables, leftover butternut squash and supergreens mezzi rigatoni, hot water. Walked to Cliff's Variety. They didn't have the correct wood I needed for our printers in cabinet project, but I did buy some small magnets. Later: dinner at home with Patrick: tempura shrimp from frozen in brioche hot dog buns with cherry tomatoes and lettuce and side of corn chips. Hot water to drink. We watched SNL s51:e12 Alexander Skarsgård and more on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. More Recharge Medical work: troubleshot problems with mail delivery via forwarders. Late snack: one sumo orange.
Thu Feb 5, 2026
Breakfast: leftover frittata with leftover roasted potatoes, hot water. Troubleshot problems with mail delivery. Reconfigured email spam filters to no longer delete things automatically. Lunch: leftover farfalle with broccoli with marinara sauce, hot water. In the past few months I had a very hard time trying to resolve a problem with our two perforated sidewalk drainage gates. I had found that the gates did not have screws holding them down. Upon inspection long ago I discovered that on one of the gates the screw had a broken head. On the other gate, a portion of the bottom part of the gate and the concrete portion that held it up had broken away completely. For the first gate I had tried a screw extractor, but that did not work at all, even when letting WD-40 sit in the area for an hour, even trying to use heat from a kitchen torch to expand the metal elements to loosen them from each other. For the second gate, I knew how to use SteelStik to restore the portion needed underneath, but I didn't know how to set a new tap for the screw. So for a long time I did not know how to resolve this. But recently I realized that I can set very powerful magnets underneath the gate with SteelStik or similar, so I did that today. The fix seems to be successful. It's very hard to remove with just my fingers, but a flathead screwdriver makes it much easier. I was worried that the magnets would simply break through the hardened SteelStik, but they did not. Gathered tax documents and discussed with Patrick. Dinner at home with Patrick: tempura and butterfly shrimp with soy dipping sauce, leftover steamed rice, and steamed broccoli and carrots, hot water. We watched and enjoyed Roma on Netflix. Patrick went to bed.
Fri Feb 6, 2026
Breakfast: leftover frittata with leftover roasted potatoes, hot water. Cleaned the office bathroom. Cut my hair, showered. Cleaned the office bathroom. Rode Uber to a doctor appointment. Lunch by myself at My Father's Kitchen: beef pho, hot vietnamese coffee with condensed milk. Walked and rode Muni back. Visited Cliff's Variety for lumber for the printers in cabinet project. Swept the balcony and patio and in front of the home. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Noe Indian Cuisine via DoorDash: butter chicken masala, palak paneer, shrimp biryani, assorted naan, raita. We began playing Firmament for Mac via Steam. We played for 47 minutes and got as far as picking up a block of ice but we don't know what to do with it yet. We stopped playing then cleaned in the kitchen. Patrick went to bed. I joined a few hours later. Woke around 2:00 a.m. and couldn't sleep. I worked with ChatGPT to set up new software for local uptime monitoring of the websites I manage. Breakfast: leftover frittata with leftover roasted potatoes, hot water. Back to bed. I can't recall what time. Six?
Sat Feb 7, 2026
Woke around 11, got out of bed around noon. Lunch: leftover shrimp biryani, hot water. Installed a plant hook on the south wall of the living room west of the sliding glass doors. Recharge Medical website work: made tweaks to the homepage grid-template-columns code. I thought I might need to adjust the image dimensions in the default template, but I ended up not changing those. Performed earthquake safety anchoring of the television and the media console under it. For the wall hooks I used three-nail gold-colored hangers from Fuzanwj on Amazon. For the hooks on the TV and media console I used medium-duty Command Strip hooks. For the connector, at first I used fishing line, but the knots in it came loose when tugging, so I switched to heavy-duty string and that seemed to work better. Continued then completed configuration of local uptime monitoring of websites. Did some cleaning up of old Sublime Text projects, losing my preferences in the process, so I restored from backup. Dinner at home with Patrick: warm pita with falafel, hummus, feta, and veggies; hot water. Afterwards we rewatched Casino Royale (2006) on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: one sumo orange, potato chips, water. Reviewed SEO reports for the Recharge Medical website and implemented a few fixes.
Sun Feb 8, 2026
Breakfast: plain yogurt with toasted coconut, roasted and slivered almonds; leftover veggie fritatta, hot water. Recharge Medical website work: minor fixes found by Screaming Frog SEO Spider. Lunch: TJ's japchae (korean sweet potato glass noodles and vegetable stir fry), hot water. Cleaned the windows above the stairwell, inside and outside. Sewing project: a new sweatshirt with the word Brooklyn on the front from The Children's Place. I accidentally made it too small, had a lot of trouble with thread tension, and broke a needle. I threw it in the trash. In the evening Patrick and I walked and rode Muni and BART to Oakland for dinner at the home of Josh and Sheening. Also attending: Sam, Dom, Felix, David. We drank vodka lemon drop martinis, red wine, still and sparkling water. The meal: baked salmon with basil and cherry tomatoes, lemon pepper tofu, coconut rice. Dessert: blueberry pound cake, tea. Sam and Dom gave us a ride home. A fine evening.
Mon Feb 9, 2026
Breakfast at home: leftover roasted potatoes, plain yogurt with roasted and slivered almonds, hot water. Recharge Medical website work: continued troubleshooting broken images only in Chrome. Lunch at home with Patrick: falafel in pita with hummus, raita, and lettuce, hot water. Walked to UCSF Parnassus for a medical errand. Got an apple-kale juice at Jamba Juice. Walked home. Swept in front of the home. More website work. Later Patrick and I continued playing Firmament on Steam on my MacBook Pro. Dinner at home with Patrick: baked tofu teriyaki over rice with veggies, hot water. The meal turned out unexpectedly wrong, so we abandoned it and ordered pickup from Hulu Wa: 2-for-1 pancakes, potstickers, orange chicken, bbq pork fried rice, garlic broccoli. I did the pickup. We ate. Our fortunes: Patrick got "Tonight, serenity will find you," and I got "The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, and passion." We continued playing Firmament a while then watched about three-fourths of To Decadence With Love, Thanks for Everything! on Amazon Prime Video. Chris and Nate notified us late tonight that their offer on a new home was accepted. Hooray!
Tue Feb 10, 2026
Breakfast at home: leftover roasted potatoes, plain yogurt with roasted and slivered almonds and toasted coconut, hot water. Continued the printers in cabinet project: sanded wooden boards that had been cut to size at Cliff's Variety, filled imperfections with wood filler, sanded again, unwrapped the drawer slides, found that the slides were very greasy all over, cleaned the drawer slides with paper towel, measured screw holes and thicknesses of the wooden boards and the cabinet base. Lunch at home: Chinese food leftovers from Hulu Wa, hot water. Cleaned in the kitchen. Tightened a loose knob of a Lodge cast iron dutch oven. Recharge Medical website work: began resolving missing meta description tags found by Screaming Frog SEO Spider; grav-plugin-social-seo-metatags seems to not fill these properly for non-Latin languages. Walked to Cliff's Variety and back for supplies. Walked to Cliff's Variety and back because two screws I purchased but which a staff member picked out did not match. Continued the printers in cabinet project: attached drawer slides to the wooden boards, installed one board, discovered that the screws did not hold well in the Ikea Tunhem, removed the slides from the Tunhem, filled the holes with wood putty. Dinner at home with Patrick: Chinese food leftovers from Hulu Wa, hot water. We finished watching To Decadence With Love, Thanks for Everything! on Amazon Prime Video then we watched Shrinking s3:e3 on Apple TV then Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars s1:e1 on Apple TV. Patrick went to bed. I cleaned in the kitchen. Google Meet chat with Lani and Dex. Late snack: one slice of dried peach, water.
Wed Feb 11, 2026
This morning while waking I realized that I should use nuts, washers, and bolts instead of screws for the printers in cabinet project. Breakfast at home: leftover Chinese food from Hulu Wa, hot water. Recharge Medical website work: began resolving missing meta description tags found by Screaming Frog SEO Spider. Walked to Cliff's Variety and back for hardware. More web work. Lunch at home: falafel from frozen in pita with hummus, raita, and lettuce; hot water. Continued the printers in cabinet project: installed nuts, washers, and bolts to get both platforms in and working. Now to run power the way we want, we realize we need to empty the middle Tunhem and move it out to access the outlet, which we'll do later. Snack: cheddar sour cream ripple potato chips. Dinner at home with Patrick: butternut squash and black bean tacos, hot water. We continued playing Firmament with popcorn from the microwave air popper with Better Cheddar cheese powder and other snacks. We reached The Swan then traveled to Juleston and could not figure out the puzzle there so we traveled to St. Andrew then stopped. We watched The Simpsons s37:e3 on Hulu. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen. More web work.
Thu Feb 12, 2026
Folded laundry that Patrick had washed yesterday. Cleaned in the bedroom bathroom. Breakfast: I prepared an 8-egg veggie fritatta with mushrooms, carrot, celery, broccoli, yellow squash, dill, salt, pepper, milk. (I forgot the cheese, so technically it's not a fritatta, I guess?) I ate a slice with a hash brown from frozen. Hot water to drink. Continued the printers in cabinet project. The middle Tunhem was emptied then pulled back from the wall so that we could access the power outlet behind it. We misjudged the placement of the outlet. Removing Tunhem #2 gave us access to the network jacks but not the outlet, which was behind the middle of Tunhem #3 about a foot from the floor. I unhooked a network component and its backup power source from power and ethernet. We removed one drawer from Tunhem #3, then pivoted the cabinet just enough to gain access to the outlet. We realized this is also a good time and place to set up a charging station for various devices. Patrick napped. Both printers were put into place on their wooden platforms with soft-close drawer slides. The shelf we removed many days ago was reinserted a few inches higher than before. A power strip was placed on that shelf and routed to one plug in the power outlet. The inkjet printer was plugged into the power strip. The laser printer was plugged into the other plug of the power outlet. The network component and its backup power source were restored to service on the charging station shelf. I wiped all surfaces clean, vacuumed, used green painter's tape to tape power cables to the wall so that they would stay flat against the wall. I pushed Tunhem #3 and #2 back into place, then wiped and vacuumed again. All seems to be working well. Last step for later is to put all objects back into the cabinets and put the doors on to Tunhem #1. Lunch: plain yogurt with decaf instant coffee mixed with a tiny amount of hot water, sliced half banana. Hot water to drink. Midafternoon snack: one sumo orange. Cleaned the soles of my heated slippers with Dawn PowerWash. Plant care: the new dracaena is dry even though I watered it only five days ago, so I watered it again. It came with mostly lava rock instead of soil. Updated my Mac to Tahoe 26.3. Unclogged the bedroom toilet. Cleaned the bedroom tub. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Joyride Pizza via DoorDash: sausage n shrooms, caesar salad. Hot water for Patrick, limonata for me. We watched Bad Bunny Tiny Desk Concert then rewatched Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime on YouTube then The Simpsons s37:e4 on Hulu.
Fri Feb 13, 2026
Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta, plain yogurt with granola and blueberries, hot water. This morning Patrick put objects back into Tunhems #1 and #2, and he and I reattached the doors to Tunhem #1. I vacuumed, and now the printers in cabinet project is complete. Lunch at home with Patrick: leftover Joyride sausage n shrooms pizza, leftover Hulu Wa Chinese pancake, cold water for Patrick, hot water for me. Sewing: altered boys black Columbia joggers. Dinner at home with Patrick: spaghetti bolognese, hot water. Afterwards we continued playing Firmament. In St. Andrew we opened all four bridges for level B then got stuck and stopped. We watched Middleditch and Schwartz s1:e2 on Netflix. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: celery with peanut butter, graham crackers, hot milk. Woke at 2:00 a.m. to what was clearly several people talking very loudly on the sidewalk outside our home. I peeked out the window to see what was happening. It was clear that at least two of them were very angry and arguing—shouting and screaming as loud as they could—on the verge of becoming violent because one of them was repeatedly pounding on a car window, presumably owned by one of them, and which was parked just outside our home. Patrick was already awake but lying in bed. He said they had been alternating between partying with loud music and arguing for the past hour. We didn't call the police because we didn't think they would do anything. After another 10 minutes of seemingly escalating arguing, I heard someone say, "Hi, how ya doin'?" and moments later a police car passed and someone (not police) walked by smoking a cigarette. Someone else must have called the police. I felt afraid in my own home even knowing that I was relatively safe from harm. I returned to bed, put in my Airpod Pros, turned on a sleep story then fell asleep about 45 minutes later.
Sat Feb 14, 2026
Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta, mini english muffin pizza with leftover spaghetti sauce (not last night's bolognese—older) and heirloom cherry tomatoes, hot water. Sewing: spent nearly the whole day altering a new pair of blue fleece-lined boys sweatpants from Land's End. Lunch: leftover spaghetti with leftover spaghetti sauce to which I added some diced heirloom cherry tomatoes. Hot water to drink. In the midafternoon I showered and dressed. Snack: half banana, water. Drew invited us to a Lunar New Year gathering, but we already had plans for tonight. Later Patrick and I walked to dinner at Beretta (Divisadero). Cocktails: Amerigo for Patrick, Papa Lucius for me. We shared: antipastini board (3): zucchini scapece, fagioli puree, ricotta fresca, focaccia; crab arancini; funghi misti pizza. Patrick had a glass of sangiovese with dinner. We shared tiramisu for dessert. All food and drink were delicious. $158.18 after tax and tip. Walked home. We watched YouTube then went to bed.
Sun Feb 15, 2026
Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta; plain yogurt with powdered espresso, honey, and blueberries; hot water. Installed a new air gap cover, intending it to be in this position temporarily until we can move the air gap from the left side to the right side of the kitchen faucet. All day: began reworking spam filters. Lunch at home with Patrick: leftover pizza from Beretta, water. Later, dinner at home with Patrick: green lentils with sausage over rice, hot water. We watched YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I continued playing Firmament. In St. Andrew I figured out how to reach the A level and opened all the bridges, and I made a repair to a track. I'm still unable to reach level C, however. I returned to Juleston and experimented with different configurations but still can't get the power level beyond 25. To bed.
Mon Feb 16, 2026
Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta, mini quesadilla with sliced heirloom cherry tomatoes, hot water. Trash management. Swept in front of the home. Lunch at home with Patrick: spaghetti with leftover bolognese, water. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers via DoorDash: we shared a Barney's Burger and a Hickory Burger and 2-for-1 curly fries. Chocolate shake for Patrick, root beer float for me. The Barney's Burger arrived with bacon even though we did not order that, but it was a bonus and not a problem. The 2-for-1 fries were almost entirely cold. Otherwise everything was delicious. We didn't finish our burgers or fries because they were so big. Afterwards we watched Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out, John Mulaney, He's Funny and Here's Why on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen.
Tue Feb 17, 2026
Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta; plain greek yogurt with blueberries, toasted coconut, and roasted and slivered almonds; hot water. Patrick and I rode Uber to City Hall and got married. Andy and Chris were our witnesses. A bit of paperwork at the beginning, then a ceremony in the rotunda that took about 10 minutes. The officiant left us to attend to other couples, and we remained a while to take photos in the beautiful space, having to wait at times because there were many other couples getting married. Afterwards we four drove to Dalida for lunch. We started with complimentary Champagne (or sparkling wine?). Cocktails: Lemon Kalispera for Andy, Shahmaram for Chris, Bodrum Negroni for Patrick, and Saturnalia for me. We shared: breaking bread with one extra pita, cured trout, kayseri manti, half chicken, truffled potato borek. Patrick and Chris each had ottoman coffee. Dessert: we shared visnell ekmek tatlisi cherry cake and chocolate hazelnut tart. All food, drink, and service were excellent. Andy and Chris drove us home. We rested a bit then I assembled and we installed a Grovemade Desk Shelf (aka monitor stand) for Patrick's desk. The assembly was relatively easy even for just one person. One wooden shelf top, two cork risers, one cork support, one metal shelf panel, and only two long screws. The only trouble I had was the cork risers initially did not fit correctly, and this was obvious because the metal shelf panel was not level, but I realized that with a little firm push in the right spots it would fit into the wooden shelf top properly. I spent about 25 minutes reconfiguring the CalDigit TS3 Plus Thunderbolt 3 Doc docking station, and this part took longer than the shelf assembly, I'm sure, only because Patrick has a lot of things plugged into the dock. We first tried the TS3 on the metal shelf part of the Grovemade stand, but there wasn't enough room or leeway for its power connector to fit through the rear openings due to the power connector's ferrite bead, so we instead put it on the lowest level, which was on the desk, and completely underneath the Grovemade stand, and that worked well. The instructions for the Grovemade shelf are surprisingly in full color—unusual for installation instructions of any kind—and use 3D isometric diagrams, including unnecessary and slightly confusing shadows. (Confusing because the metal panel has a shadow, but the cork risers do not.) Color, arrows, and callouts are used effectively. The instructions do not show details about which way is up or down for the cork support between the risers, but that probably doesn't matter much whichever way it gets installed. (I put ours with the cutout touching the wooden shelf.) "Clear your assembly area of anything that might scratch the shelf top" ought to be step 1 and appear at the top of the diagram instead of unnumbered and at the bottom. The steps numbered 1, 2, and 3 would have been better left-justified instead of aligned along the diagonal matching the diagram. Since English readers read left to right, creating instructions that read top to bottom but right to left is a bit disorienting; my brain kept starting with step 3, and it took extra effort to not do that for these instructions. I expected each piece to fit snugly, but for each fitting there was considerable leeway in opposing directions that left me uncomfortable that I would install it correctly, but it turned out to not be a problem. When inserting the screws I was uncertain that the screw tips were correctly fitting into the holes drilled for them because you can't easily see it happening because too many parts are in the way, but a little wiggling and feeling for each tip falling into place helped me overcome that fear. The quality of the materials seems excellent; everything appeared to have no flaws. Later Sam picked up Patrick and me, and we drove to Kerry and Mom Ryan's place with a king cake that Patrick had made yesterday on a very large platter which he kept on his lap during the ride. We celebrated at their place with a Mardi Gras wedding king cake because Mom wasn't feeling well enough to come over to our place. The king cake was coated with silver and gold sugar and had a chocolate-cinnamon filling and no baby. We ate slices of king cake and chatted a while before departing. Sam, Patrick, and I then drove to Mama Ji's for dinner—Chinese food to celebrate lunar new year, year of the horse. Upon entering we waited perhaps five minutes before anyone greeted us and sat us at one of the many empty tables. Within a few minutes we received ice water and menus. After making our decisions we placed our order, and our server was personable, knowledgeable, efficient, and repeated the order back to us to prevent errors. Our server asked us if we wanted rice, and we declined because we had ordered chow mein. We shared potstickers (which were not spicy), kung pao chicken (which was too spicy for me even though our server suggested and ordered it mild), dry-fried green beans (which was not spicy), combination chow mein (which was not spicy, and they were out of combo chow fun which we initially wanted). During the meal a bowl of rice arrived, and we didn't know whether it was a mistake or if it came with certain dishes, and we ate it anyway. Food temperatures were uneven. Some dishes arrived very hot whereas others arrived somewhere between lukewarm and hot. The potstickers were delicious—plump and dense in a good way. We were surprised to find that there are only three to an order, but each one is notably larger than potstickers at other places. At the end of our meal we must have waited about 10 or 15 minutes before our server had returned. When returning our credit card, our server apologized for the very slow service. I said it was okay even though I didn't mean it. I tipped normally—20%. I probably will not voluntarily return for a long time if at all, mostly because of the slow service but also because the majority of dishes are spicy, and I do not trust that a dish called mild will be mild. There seemed to be only one server for the 49-person capacity restaurant when there probably should have been at least two if not three and a greeter. Even a small sign on a pole saying "Please have a seat at any table with place settings" would have helped. Sam drove us home. Patrick and I went to bed.
Wed Feb 18, 2026
Breakfast: pita with hummus, raita, sliced butter lettuce, and three TJ's falafel from frozen. I also prepared but did not eat a veggie fritatta (broccoli, carrot, yellow squash, parsley, salt, pepper, one heirloom cherry tomato), and this time I did not forget the cheese. Lunch: Patrick had leftover lentils. I made a tofu veggie stir-fry with oyster sauce and short-grain rice. Hot water to drink. Continued reading from My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent. Continued playing Firmament. Dinner at home with Patrick: tuna salad sandwiches with chips, hot water. We watched Shrinking s3:e4 on Apple TV then "Slice of Life" - Award Winning Short SCI-FI film on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes and cleaned the kitchen.
Thu Feb 19, 2026
Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta; plain greek yogurt with flax meal, one sliced banana, and roasted and slivered almonds; hot water. Cleaned the bathroom, cut my hair, showered, cleaned the bathroom. More adjustments to spam filters. Lunch at home with Patrick: oatmeal for Patrick, leftover half cow burger and curly fries for me. Hot water to drink. Recharge Medical web work: resolved the problem of thumbnail images sometimes failing to load on pages that included galleries by setting fetchpriority to high. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover lentils, TJ's simit from frozen, hot water. We began watching the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, stopping after about an hour. Patrick went to bed. I did Duolingo before going to bed.
Fri Feb 20, 2026
Breakfast: one sumo orange, one heated deli blueberry muffin, hot water. Recharge Medical web work: resolved the problem of certain SVG images appearing incorrectly in dark mode. The cause was that some browsers don't support dark mode when the dark mode code is embedded inside the image, and the browser I developed the website with did, so I didn't notice this problem until after launch. The solution was to create alternate dark mode versions of the diagram and use CSS outside of the SVG to alternate them between light and dark modes. Lunch: leftover tofu veggie stir-fry with oyster sauce and short-grain rice. Hot water to drink. Printed a mailing label for a thank you card. Spam filter edits. Recharge Medical work: tote bag marketing review. Nap. Patrick and I met our neighbor Dan for drinks at Blush! and dinner at Takara Sushi. We talked about relationships, eating preferences and allergies, The Academy, talking with businessowners, restaurants including Nisei and Hon's Wun-Tun House, museums and current exhibits, travel, wine, Australian wine, Tasmania, and more. At Blush! we received a happy hour discount that we could not believe. At Takara we shared tempura and did some sharing of a roll each and a few smaller items. Hot sake to share. A fine evening.
Sat Feb 21, 2026
Had trouble sleeping last night. Slept in. Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta, one heated deli blueberry muffin, hot water. Spam filter edits. Recharge Medical work: tote bag marketing review. Lunch: two veggie spring rolls from frozen with sweet and sour sauce, hot water. In the early afternoon I walked and rode Muni, BART, and Uber to Simon and Arthur's place in Oakland for Tim's 50th birthday party. In attendance: Tim, Suzan, Simon, Arthur, Josh, dog Milo, Tim's mom Laura, Guy, Valter, Steven S, Brandon, Corbin, Natalie, Jeremy, Jeffrey, Todd, Ranjeev, Nas, Mark, Philip, Ali, Jennifer, Michelle, Michael, Sean, Patrick, Andrew, Joanna, Jen, Randy, Mike, Fino, Adrian, Lizzie, and Jessica (manager of Moby Dick). Suzan revealed her dream drag name—Pied a Terre. I revealed my dream DJ name—DJ Pudding so that when mixing it could be announced as DJ Pudding in the Mix. We ate delicious food from Rico Rico Taco, and there was plenty to drink and otherwise imbibe. People karaoked first downstairs then later upstairs when the downstairs became the dance party room. Milo was mostly well-behaved. I don't think I've ever met a dog that didn't like being touched or petted. I talked about tiramisu with I think it was Adrian who is a chef at a non-profit. I talked about queer politics, fashion, sewing, and John Varvatos with Nas. Simon talked about Real Bad and shared forthcoming promo photos for Romp. I chatted a little bit with almost everyone. The party went later than the invitation had stated, and a group of us—Suzan, Lizzie, Laura, Jessica, and Valter—shared a Lyft ride to SF long before everyone else had left. We dropped Suzan, Jessica, and Valter off first before continuing to the final stop near 17th and Noe. I walked home, exhausted and happy.
Sun Feb 22, 2026
Slept in. Breakfast: leftover veggie fritatta, hot water. Uploaded photos to Partiful and Flickr. Recharge Medical work: tote bag marketing review. Rode Uber to lunch at PPQ Dungeness Island with Keith B, Keith R, Howie, William, and Ken S. Crab dinner for 6: imperial rolls, papaya salad with beef, roasted crab (1), deep-fried peppercorn crab (1), beef steak cubes, steamed sea bass, braised string beans, house garlic noodles. Dessert: deep-fried banana balls with two kinds of ice cream. Afterwards walked Clement Street, stopping at various bakeries and shops. Rode Uber home. Recharge Medical work: tote bag marketing review. Later, dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Slice House via DoorDash: pizza with bacon, canadian bacon, and pineapple; caesar salad. Afterwards we continued playing Firmament.