December 20, 2024 Lunch - Padilla’s Dinner - Snacks at Half-life and penne pasta with Chicken and a Mushroom cream sauce.
I ate a chocolate croissant with a cup of tea for breakfast.
Aaron came at 11:00 to print several documents for Earn.
Then we met at Padilla’s for lunch at 11:30. We each had our usual, Aaron ordered a taco plate and I ordered a chili Relleno plate with double beans, green chili, and extra onions. The dish is served with two rellenos and today, as usual I ate only one Relleno and half the beans, so I was able to box a Relleno and half the beans that will provide another lunch. We ate both of our sopapillas.
I also checked my portfolio and everything went up today. For example, The Dow gained 500 points, the NASDAQ gained 200 points, Nvidia went up $4.02, Apple went up $4.70, and Pltr went up $6.38. My portfolio increased by 2.0%.
Suzette had to coordinate the Center’s employees’ Christmas until 7:00, so I made an appointment with Roger and Terry to prepare their living trust.
We finished around 6:15 and I drove to half-life at 3215 Central and was pleasantly surprised to see that David and Nichelle had opened both doors into my building at 3213 Central.
They had built a stage in the back of 3215 and their band was playing, David on guitar and Nichelle on violin and they were both vocalists. It seemed to me that they were film makers by day and musicians at night.
There was a table filled with food and purveyors of beverages including eggnog and apple cider at one table and alcohol at another. I filled a plate with 4 slices of salami, four round Melba toasts, three cheese cubes, some grapes, two macarons, and two cookies; a snack plate for dinner and donated $5.00 for a glass of red wine that looked like a Mondavi Woodside. I went to the seating area in front of the stage were there were about 50 to 60 folks listening to the music and found two open seats and sat my plate on one and listened to the music and ate my snacks.
After I finished my snack and the band took a break I walked next door and talked to Jay and Paula. Paula who is younger than me went to Paschal in Fort Worth, so we have a shared history, although far behind us now.
In 3213 there were pop up shops, an aunt offering her mosaic pieces, two other vendors, and Jay and Paula offering a selection of glassware, incense, and dresses. The big news is that Jay and Paula sold the VW bus and it will be removed from beside the front window after Christmas, marking the end of a 30 year era as the symbol of Jay and Paula’s head shop on Central.
Nickelle said hello during the break and when the music started again I filled another plate with snacks, minus macarons and found two seats in the audience in front of the stage. I noticed that David has a powerful voice and Nickelle has a lovely lilting quality to her playing of the violin.
At 7:45 I noticed a text message from Suzette, so I left the stage area and called her. She was at home, so I drove home.
When I got home Suzette was watching Lottery Home. At 8:00 we picked a Netflix Christmas movie, “Waltzing in Paris”, about an accountant who loves to dance who leaves her job, runs into a famous French ballroom dancer and becomes his partner in dance and life.
I opened a bottle of Cotes du Bourg red wine and we each drank several glasses of red wine during the movie.
At 9:30 I became hungry and ate a small plate of the leftover penne pasta in mushroom cream sauce we made last night that zsuzette had also eaten for dinner and at 10:30 we went to bed after a few minutes of Alex Wagner’s news program.
I hope the Garcia’s creation of a performance space works for them
Bon Appetit
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