Friday, April 17, 2026
Breakfast: four-egg soft scrambled eggs with a hash made of shredded potatoes from frozen, sliced mushrooms, and spinach; hot water. Physical therapy exercises to treat a minor back issue. Patrick and I took down the left side of the living room draperies in order to make a repair to one of the ceiling brackets which had started to come loose. In the process, at least two and possibly three brackets broke, but due to previous experience I had ordered six replacements, so it wasn't a problem. We also did some touch-up painting of the walls in the living room and some other upper level areas. I also did a deep-clean of the draperies track and did some spot-cleaning of the draperies with dish soap solution like I did for the right side sometime last year. Lunch: Patrick had leftovers from last night, I had leftover TJ's version of yakamein. Water to drink. Walked and rode Muni to a doctor appointment. Met with Drew at the clinic to discuss recent business activities. Walked and rode Muni home. Because Muni stopped at Church Street Station and an announcement was made saying the train was delayed and would remain there for some time, I got out and walked on the street the rest of the way home. Along the way I encountered and briefly chatted with neighbor Dan: Germany, Austria, Hunky Jesus and Dolores Park on Easter, The Academy. Continued the draperies bracket repair. Dinner at home with Patrick: tuna mac n' cheese with veggies, hot water. Continued and completed the draperies bracket repair. Afterwards we played games on Amazon Luna on our iPad Air screenshared to the big TV: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire (Patrick won, and the game was laughably slow and awkward because it took so long to find out each correct answer) and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. For Indy, it took us a long time to figure out how to pair our PlayStation 5 DualSense controllers to the iPad, and once the game was working we stumbled a bit because we didn't know what buttons did what actions. (We hadn't read the game manual.) We played reasonably successfully for about 30 minutes. Patrick grew tired and went to bed. Afterwards I found the screen which shows a map of what controller buttons perform what actions and took a photo of it with my iPhone. Started the dishwasher. Cleaned the kitchen.