Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Folded laundry that Patrick had washed yesterday. Removed dried paint drips on the baseboard in the living room. Sam came over and he and Patrick and I breakfasted at Orphan Andy's. Sam had a polish dog and Diet Coke, Patrick had The Big 2 with pancakes and coffee with cream, I had a garden omelette with home fries and toast with chai tea. All food and drink were delicious. Afterwards Sam and Patrick went grocery shopping at Whole Foods. I continued the kitchen countertop improvement project. I continued and completed removing old grout and caulk from the countertop behind the faucet and the air gap. I cleaned the cleared lines. I caulked the left edge. Physical therapy exercises to treat a minor back issue. Later Patrick and I tested moving the air gap from the left side to the right side, but the tube connecting the air gap to the garbage disposal wasn't long enough, and I didn't want to do the work to resolve it. So we reinstalled the air gap then installed the soap dispenser. Later I noticed that crumbs from something—probably the toaster oven when it had been moved nearby—appeared on the wet caulk I had just laid, so after it dries I'll need to remove it and do it again. Later I realized that crumbs that had fallen out of the toaster were probably blown onto the caulk when I used a hair dryer to dry the holes in the countertop during the air gap switch hole trial and soap dispenser installation. Today Patrick baked cherry-marzipan turnovers, making the filling from almost-scratch and using puff pastry from frozen. Later we ate them for dinner along with sandwiches made from deli curried chicken salad. Hot water to drink. With red wine, we watched Pluribus s1:e2 on Apple TV then YouTube: Never Douche Again: The Ball Changing Bottoming Forever | Mini-doc via All Out with Jon Dean and Niki Harris & Donna De Lory Q&A After Madonna's Truth Or Dare at The Castro Theatre via Rob Doughty. Patrick went to bed. I processed dirty dishes, cleaned the kitchen, and started the dishwasher. I rescued the caulk job by removing the crumbs with tweezers then fine-tuned it by removing excess caulk with an X-acto knife. I think now that I won't have to remove it and start over.