I’m glad Tim is recovering well, Tep.

Good job, Tim and Steph!

Tim requested pumpkin pancakes for dinner, so who am I to say no to that? We also took a very short walk to the corner (like 5 minutes). Next up is a shower. We already had a shower chair after Tim’s heart surgery, so that’s all set. Then more oxycodone in 45 minutes.

Timelies all!

I'm glad Tim's recovery is going well, Steph.

That all sounds very good

I went and visited a fancy little grocery that's near work and spent too much money on cheese and whatnot (mostly cheese). As I was checking out, the owner (I think that's who it was) complimented my selection of cheese and says she also likes a variety and I told her the difficulty was not taking everything she had to offer, so I think we are friends now. Can't afford to go there very often, sadly, but it will be a nice occasional treat, I think.

Yum, cheese. I hung out with a friend tonight and we got tacos from this truck. We ordered drive queso birria tacos, and they were good but about halfway through the second one I went “…there’s really not any cheese in here is there?” So she took her plate up to the truck to ask, and he insisted on making us full new plates. The cheese was like a thin fried cheese on the tortilla? It was definitely worth the extra and glad we got to try it, but I absolutely couldn’t eat six tacos and it felt like a horrible waste.

Mmmm, tacos.

Quiet morning. Sitting here chilling, really, chilling. Still only 60 in the house. This place is really not insulated well. Another 2 weeks and I will head south. My car door handles were frozen yesterday!

My car door handles were frozen yesterday!

Time to fly, Snowbird!

It's Wednesday! Woo!

Our contractor was in the house yesterday as they moved all the heavy furniture around (two things up to the attic, the vintage console to the Garden unit, the Bing Crosby cabinet across the room, the love seat and table up from the Garden unit, move the heavy fridge closer to the counter) in preparation for the big Art Nouveau cabinet.

Now that the windows are finally fixed we can actually start creating the room layouts instead of a chaotic sort of ad hoc situation.

They also snaked out all our plumbing because the draining was really slow, and it helped. Made me think people should just snake their pipes once a year.

Anyway, it's nice to have all that done, but it's also nice to not have to deal with contractors today.

Wednesday is a social day for me. Alembic is closed on Mon-Tues, so I swing by and go in at open (4pm) so I can chat with the bartenders.

And my new favorite bookstore clerk, Eleanor works Wed-Fri, so I usually swing by Borderlands to say hi.

And it's new comics day, so I usually go by Comix Experience and chat with Kat, Zoey & Katie. (This is a routine I got into during the lockdown because I'd walk the length of the Panhandle and then go another two blocks to the comics store, then shop at Bi-Rite and this would give me all my necessary steps.)

Since it's my friend Jes' birthday month, I'll be taking her for drinks at Alembic. Also, I'm kind of friend match-making Eleanor (who has only been in SF for a year since she moved her with her fiance who's in an MBA program), and Jes. So I think I might buy Eleanor a tarot reading with Jes.

Tomorrow I'll be back at Alembic because I'm taking Emmett's gf, and BFF to dinner/drinks. I haven't seen them much since school started, and Kalena started her job. Emmett himself will be on a plane to NYC, traveling with his mother because one of her closest friends is in hospice.

tl;dr: Weds and Thursday tend to be my most social days of the week.

Ha ha, sucks to be Alex Jones. They're announcing the verdicts right now, but the damages to the plaintiffs are already over $800 million.

Edit: Total of over one billion. I hope they take everything he's got and everything he may make in the future.

Aw, yeah, every penny!