October 22, 2025 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Pho Linh No. 50. Dinner - Chicken Curry and rice for Suzette and Linguine with Scallops and Broccoli for me

October 22, 2025 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - Pho Linh No. 50. Dinner - Chicken Curry and rice for Suzette and Linguine with Scallops and Broccoli for me

I woke up at 7:20 and missed the market open but that was okay because today was a major melt down for almost every stock except Nvidia, Meta, and Alphabet. For example, some of the high flyers with earnings like Oklo dropped $20.00. I felt lucky that my portfolio only dropped .94%.

I ate granola with the last of the tropical fruit salad, milk, and mango yogurt for breakfast.  Then I worked on my pleading until 12:30 when Henry arrived for lunch.

I drove us to Pho Linh near where Zuni meets Central and we both ordered No. 50’s, which are large bowls with vermicelli rice noodles on one side covered with grilled marinated pork, a fried egg roll and two grilled shrimp and on the o other side of the bowl are a pile of chopped lettuce, mung bean sprouts, and cucumber sticks, a smaller pile of pickled vegetables, and a small pile of chopped cilantro and basil served with a bowl of mild slightly sweet fish sauce. It was a feast that neither of us were able to finish. Henry showed me photos of his family and we talked about one son who lives in Willets, California, in the area of the coastal red woods.

After lunch we drove home and I worked until 4:00 when I napped until 4:50 p.

Then I made a white vermouth and Suzette drank a glass of Gruner Vitliner and we watched the news until 6:00 when we decided to eat leftovers. Suzette heated a plate of chicken curry on rice and she heated a plate of Scallops with Linguine and broccoli for me.

I drank my vermouth with dinner and she drank a glass of Gruner Vitliner.

We watched the news until 7:00 and then watched a Nature episode on walruses during which Suzette heated bowls of apricot, peach, and blueberry cobbler moistened and topped with pears poached in red wine and honey for dessert.

At 8:00/we got in bed and watched a Nova episode on how Neolithic people living on the Arabian Peninsula made elaborate large stone death traps for herds of gazelle and talked to Willy for a few minutes.

Suzette went to bed at 9:00 and I blogged this entry and went to bed before 10:00.

The big news of the day is that Trump is tearing down the East Wing of the White House to build a large ballroom and the military are expanding the destroying boats allegedly carrying narcotics in the Pacific for the first time, after having attacked seven boats in the Caribbean with even a Notification to Congress that holds the power to declare war on the asserted basis that the narcotics traffickers are terrorists. As one commentator said, “If Trump can attack a boat without any pretext or due process, he can attack US citizens who he declares terrorists in America without due process.”

Welcome to the new America.

Bon Appetit