csA February 27, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Lime Vietnamese Restaurant Dinner - Roasted Chicken, Mashed Potatoes with Mushroom gravy, and steamed Asparagus

 February 27, 2026 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - Lime Vietnamese Restaurant  Dinner - Roasted Chicken, Mashed Potatoes with Mushroom gravy, and steamed Asparagus

I slept until 6:30, then read until 7:00 and watched Squawk on the Street until 8:00.

I dressed and ate my usual breakfast of granola, milk, mango yogurt, and blueberries.

At 10:00 I walked around the block along San Carlos to Laguna and back along Los Alamos for over one mile of steps. At 5:30 i walked around the shorter block to 16th and to Los Alamos. The accumulated steps for the day were 4800.

Aaron invited me to go to lunch with him and Monica. We met at Lime at noon.  Aaron ordered Chicken soup with noodles, I ordered No. 16, Chicken Soup with wontons and egg noodles. The soup also contained slices of roasted pork, which is a house specialty.

Monica ordered her favorite dish, fried shrimp in their shells.

I also ordered an order of 3 fried egg rolls that Monica and I shared.

After lunch I drove home and rested for 1/2 hour and then meditated from 3:30 to 4:15. It was another disastrous day in the market. I will wait until tomorrow to face the worse meltdown in over a month.

Fortunately gold went up over $100 to $5280.

At 5:00 I buttered two Swedish round hard bread slices and lay slices of Jarlsberg cheese and red onion on them and melted them for a snack.

Then I walked and when I returned we prepared dinner. I removed the thighs from the roasted chicken Suzette brought from the Bistro . She then made a gravy with flour, butter, and chicken stock to which I added mushroom slices and minced garlic.

Suzette also steamed about 10 stalks of asparagus.

We poured out the remaining Faustino Albariño into two glasses.

Soon we were eating a delicious dinner.

We watched a documentary about a Korean Buddhist Nun who is a phenomenal vegetarian cook and the Washington Week at 8:00 and most of Firing Line and went to bed by 9:30. I drank a cup of chai with the last two cookies.

The weather is warming and we are starting to turn on the fan at night.

Bon Appetit

February 26, 2026 Breakfast - Lax on Bagel. Lunch - La Salita Dinner - California Corona White Bean and Chard and macaroni Stew with Grilled Lamb chops and Tzatziki

February 26, 2026 Breakfast - Lax on Bagel. Lunch - La Salita  Dinner - California Corona White Bean and Chard and macaroni Stew with Grilled Lamb chops and Tzatziki

I was up from 3:30 to 4:45 and then slept until 7:15.

The market did not respond well to Nvidia’s earnings and pummeled it and most other tech stocks.

I had the worst day in a long time.

Since we were not eating until 12:45 I ate a good breakfast of a whole toasted bagel spread with cream cheese and garnished with Gravad lax, red onion slices, and capers with Earl Grey tea.

When I finished I talked to Aaron about Earn for an hour and then read documents to prepare for a board meeting tomorrow.

Then at 11:45 I drove to pick up Charlie and Peter and drive to uLa Salta on Juan Tabo near Indian School Rd. We each ordered our

lunch and paid for it. I ordered Enchilada Delight which is four rolled enchiladas filled with ground beef and served with two sides. I my case the sides were refried beans. I ate 1/2 of my dish and took two enchiladas and beans home for lunch tomorrow.

Today all members of the club plus Mike and Tom Genomi joined us for lunch and the Book Club discussion that followed at Bonnie’s house. The book was Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, which triggered lots of discussion.

Bonnie made lovely cherry pies with sour cherries she sweetened and to which she added cinnamon and vanilla that we ate after the meeting.

I then drove Charlie to Galles Chevrolet and Peter home and the stopped at Lowe’s grocery store then to buy a cucumber.

I arrived home at 4:30 and watched news until 5:30 when we cooked dinner.

Dinner - Suzette made a vegetable stew that was a recipe in her Gordo Bean Club shipment She added a bunch of red chard cubed, carrots, an onion, and garlic to the cooked large white Corona beans she cooked yesterday.

Then she grilled the lamb chops I bought at Costco several days ago.

While Suzette cooked I prepped the tzatziki, 2/3 cucumber, 1/2 cup of labni, 1 cup of LaLa plain yogurt, two cloves of garlic pressed, 1/8 of a red onion minced, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1/2 tsp. of salt.

Willy arrived and walked around the block as we finished cooking. We actually did not complete dinner until 7:15. I opened a bottle of 2022 La Revuer from Côtes du Rhône that I bought at Costco for under $10.00.

Here are the winery notes for this wine.

Grape Composition 

80% Grenache, 20% Syrah

Vinification 

Concrete tanks

Destemmed or not 

100% destemmed

Fermentation 

15 to 20 days fermentation and maceration

Yeast 

Natural

Aging 

12 months in concrete tanks

Soil Composition 

Light clay and sandy soil, vines are situated on terraces

Exposition 

North facing

Vine Age 

40 to 45 years old

Density 

4000 vines per HA

Harvest type 

Hand Picked

Malolactic – yes/no

Yes

Soon we were eating the vegetable and bean stew with bites of lamb drenched in tzatziki.

Willy left after dinner and we watched Midsomer Murders from 8:00 to 9:30 and then went to bed.

Bon Appetit 

 

February 25, 2026

February 25, 2026 Breakfast - Taco Eggs on corn tortillas. Lunch - Vinaigrette. Dinner - Leftover Chirashi and Chinese Longevity Noodles with beef

I slept badly and woke up at 3:30 and watched the business news, which was mostly about Nvidia’s quarterly report to be announced after the close. The market was up again today, but not as much as yesterday.

I heated about a cup of the leftover taco meat in butter and and added two eggs to make scrambled taco eggs that I lay on three toasted corn tortillas and ate with a latte macchiato for breakfast.

I slept from 8:30 to 10:00.

I reviewed a document and wrote a letter and then at 11:30 I walked to Vinaigrette to meet Paul for lunch.  He and I car pooled to Sunday school together 70 years ago in Fort Worth.

We are also in similar businesses. Paul owns Geltmore Development and develops real estate and I am a real estate lawyer, we had lots to talk about.

He was particularly interested in what Willy does.  

We both ordered Cajun Gumbo, a shrimp, andouille sausage, chicken, okra, and rice stew.

After lunch I walked back and was surprised that the walk was only 3600 steps, resulting in a day’s total of 3900 steps.

From 3:00 until 4:00 In listened to the Nvidia quarterly report. It was not as exciting as the talks Jensen gives at the electronics conventions, but he was as visionary as always.

He will be on CNBC tomorrow and might be more interesting.

I tried to see what kind of bump the Nvidia stock got from its now usual 70% increase in revenue. It seemed to be up $10.00 but that did not seem to hold, which seemed to be a delay in the tape. In any event, my portfolio was up about .6%. The real tell will be tomorrow when the stock starts trading on it current earnings.

At 4:00 I watched Ari and Suzette came home and we watched as Democrats excoriate the excesses of the Republicans. It seems the Justice Department withheld some files implicating Trump in the Epstein file, which would violate the recent disclosure law.

Dinner - We decided to eat the leftover Chirashi and Chinese Noodles for dinner.

At 5:30 I divided the 1/2 chirashi and Suzette heated the Chinese noodles.

I made a cup of green tea and Suzette drank her cocktail and we ate a pleasant dinner.

After dinner we watched two episodes of Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat with Samin Nosrat on Netflix, that examines cooking by analyzing each of the four elements.

I dozed and we went to bed at 9:30.

Bon Appetit

February 24, 2026 Breakfast Chocolate Croissant and Latte Macchiato, Lunch - Crazy Fish. Dinner - PPI Roasted Pork Tapa with Mashed Potatoes

February 24, 2026 Breakfast Chocolate Croissant and Latte Macchiato,  Lunch - Crazy Fish. Dinner - PPI Roasted Pork Tapa with Mashed Potatoes 

I awakened at 6:15 and dressed and watched some news and then at 7:45 heated a chocolate croissant and made a latte macchiato that I took with me In the car to consume as Suzette drove us to Rio Rancho.

Later when we returned home we both rested until 11:30 when we drove to Crazy Fish.  I ordered my usual, Chirashi, and Suzette ordered her favorite, a Dragon Roll, that combines unagi (grilled eel) and avocado with rice wrapped with nori seaweed. I drank green tea and Suzette drank ginger tea.

I only ate half of my dish and Suzette helped me eat part of that.

The most exciting event of the day occurred after lunch, we walked the two blocks to Birdland to visit Nikelle and David and pick up a rent check.  Apparently they are days away from significant revenue, because they cut a check for January through March rent, so their video business must be prospering.

It was fun talking to them. David was even interested in me explaining my efforts in the LRGA and how the US took control of the Rio Grande River, plus Suzette discussed hiring their Celtic band for a Saturday picnic concert in August.

They are fully booked for St. Patrick’s Day week.  I really like Nikelle and David and that really makes a difference in a Landlord/Tenant relationship.

We walked back to the car and drove home and Suzette rested in the afternoon.

I checked my portfolio after 2:00 when the market closed and was happy that the morning rebound in the market held most of its gains.

My portfolio gained 1.45% and is approaching a new high.

The big difference in whether it goes up or down will depend upon Nvidia’s earnings tomorrow.

I then rested from 2:30 to 3:15 and then meditated from 3:30 until 4:00. We had all five members sitting today which was wonderful.

Then Suzette and I watched Ari’s The Beat. The most tantalizing news today was evidence that reports of interviews with a young 14 year old woman who told the FBI in 2019 that Trump sexually abused her have been deleted by the Justice Department from the Epstein files produced to Congress pursuant to the new Congressional disclosure law. That raises several questions. Is the Justice Department covering up Trump’s crimes. And is so, is it also deleting interviews of other rich and powerful men involved in the Epstein child pornography scheme.

Dinner- 

Suzette was hungry for the comfort of mashed potatoes, so at 5:00 I peeled and cubed five russet potatoes for her to boil and mash.

We decided to serve them with the Leftover Pork, onion and apple tapa but because there was very little sauce in the leftovers Suzette needed to make additional gravy to smother the mashed potatoes under. She made a cream sauce with chicken bone broth, flour and butter and added it to the leftovers as she sautéed them in a skillet. She added melted butter and milk to the drained boiled potatoes and creamed them in the Kitchen Aid.

While Suzette was cooking I went for a walk around the two blocks nearest our house that allowed me to accumulate over 5000 steps today.

When I returned I opened a bottle of red 2020 Chateau de Plaiziers Cuvee Prestige Cotes du Bourg I bought at Costco for under $10.00 .It tasted fine and we drank the entire bottle during and after dinner. We enjoyed our simple but lovely dinner.

The creamy mashed potatoes covered with sauce and the pork dish reminded me of French bistro food. We are looking forward to eating some when we spend September in Provence, France.

After dinner we watched the State of the Union.

I watched the first 45 minutes and the last few minutes after I finished reading The book club selection, Stella Maris.

I guess Trump irritated me because I found myself eating four or five pieces of chocolate with a sip of cognac and later a sip of Calvados.

I was able to see about half of Finding Your Roots due to speech coverage running past 9:00. I am sorry I missed much of it because Spike Lee was one of the two featured persons.

We went to bed at 10:00.

My impression of the speech is it was classic Trump, if you support me I will give you a lot of goodies, such as medals of honor and a child stock plan, but those are not programs that help all Americans. With Trump it is always a one way street to benefit him, his sycophants, and his family. 

Bon Appetit