May 15, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Costco Hot Dog. Dinner - Fried Pot Stickers Salad

May 15, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Costco Hot Dog. Dinner - Fried Pot Stickers Salad

When I woke up at 4:20 I saw Trump fumble through some tough questions on Air Force One on its way back to Washington and realized it would be a devastating day.  With no agreement with China to open the straits of Hormuz and Trump seemingly willing to carry on the war indefinitely, the market acted predictably. Crude went up $3.00 and the Dow fell 537 points and the NASDAQ fell 410 and the 10 year treasury bill went above 4.5% for the first time in years.

I slept from 5:30 to 8:15. When I woke up I watched the news until 9:00 and then ate a bowl of granola at my desk and opened a Rupeeflo account on my phone.

At 1:00 I drove to Costco to pick up a prescription and eat a hot dog for lunch, my first since discharge from the hospital. Suzette was shocked that I had gone off my low sodium diet. I was delighted, although they were out of diced onions.

At 2:15 I drove to Shahin’s and met with him and Sharief to finish the probate.

Then at 4:00 I drove home and rested until asuzette arrived. 

After her cocktail we considered ordering a pizza until we heard that it would cost $30.00.

Suzette decided that I should cook pot stickers and she would make a salad from the fresh lettuce in the garden plus some Napa cabbage, some grated radish, and avocados chunks.

I sautéed a dozen frozen pot stickers in peanut and sesame oil until golden brown and made a soy, mirin, sake and green onion dipping sauce rhat we used as our salad dressing and for dipping the pot stickers.

Suzette went to the garden and picked a basket of lettuce.

The fresh salad made with lettuce from our was delightful and the combination of warm dumplings with the salad made a lovely dinner with a glass of Carlsberg green.

After dinner we lay in bed and watched a lovely Netflix Swedish movie about a Swedish woman who moves to Provence and comes alive to a new more fulfilling life.  It was very life and love affirming. Exactly what we wanted to help relax after a long activity filled week.

Suzette went to bed at 9:30.

I got up and blogged and read at 10:30 with a cup of chai.

Bon Appetit

May 14, 2026. Breakfast - Gravad Lax Omelet with goat cheese, potatoes, Ted onion, and fresh dill. Lunch - Leftover Pasta with Mushrooms and Chicken Dinner - Mapo Dofu with Rice

 May 14, 2026. Breakfast - Gravad Lax Omelet with goat cheese, potatoes, Ted onion, and fresh dill. Lunch - Leftover Pasta with Mushrooms and Chicken Dinner - Mapo Dofu with Rice

I did not sleep well last night, but at 4:30 a.m. got to watch the toasts at the banquet and first meeting of Xi and Trump, which were both craven adulation by Trump of Xi like a supplicant rather than a meeting of equals. I felt like I could have been looking at Trump and Putin. I felt there was something terribly wrong with Trump.

I then rested for an hour or two and then I watched the market open up again. I guess I was worried about the surgery set for 1:00 to remove my dialysis catheter.

At 7:30 I made a good breakfast, a Gravad lax, potato, red onion, and fresh dill omelet with toasted slices of baguette and a cup of tea.

Then at 9:00 I went back to sleep and slept until 10:50, when I got dressed. Suzette came home at 11:20 and we drove to Renal Medicine Associates at 12:00 for the removal of the dialysis catheter. I t was a simple operation but Suzette attending made me much less anxious.

Then at 1:00 Suzette drove us home and heated the leftover Pasta, Mushrooms, and Chicken dish left from last nightl I then checked my portfolio and discovered that it had another monster day thanks to Nvidia closing up $9.91, in part due the the U.S. approving the sale of Nvidia’s TH 200 chips to 10 Chinese companies.

So I had two wonderful bits of news today. The first was the doctor who removed the catheter confirming that starting dialysis probably saved my life and the second was my portfolio reaching another milepost. From April 7 to today it increased an amazing 23%. That is an annualized rate of over 230%. I have been waiting for the bubble to burst, but it has not yet. 

Dinner - We decided to make Mapo Dofu for dinner, so at 6:00 I started.

I cubed a small eggplant and two small Mexican squash. I then minced two small cloves of garlic from our garden and about 1 1/2 T. of ginger root and 1 Vidalia onion. Then I cubed four portobello, a shiitake and two lobster mushrooms and about 3 oz. of fresh wood ear. Then I cubed 2/3 of a pork tenderloin and finally a 14 oz. block of firm tofu.

Willy arrived around 7:00 as I  stir fried the onion, garlic and ginger in the large 18 inch wok and added sequentially the eggplant and squash, the cubed pork with a heaping tsp. of garlic chilli sauce, then 14 oz. of tofu cubed with enough water to cover the ingredients so they would stew. I forgot to add the mushrooms, so after about 30 to 45 minutes I added the sliced mushrooms and wood ear before the tofu so I added the mushrooms and wood ear and stewed the dish another fifteen minutes to cook the mushrooms. While the ingredients stewed I combined I tsp. of soy sauce, with 1 tsp  sesame oil, 1 T. of mirin, 2 T. of sake and 1 1/2 T. of cornstarch and whisked those ingredients to make a seasoning sauce.

I also separated the seeds from the husks of about 1/2 T.of Szechuan peppercorns with Willy’s help and thinly sliced four green onions for the garnish.

When the ingredients had stewed about an hour I added the seasoning sauce to thicken the stew and Suzette re-heated some PPI rice cooked with seaweed and Willy selected, opened and poured glasses of Vara Grenache red wine for him and Suzette. I drank water.

Willy left a little later and we watched an old episode of Midsummer  Murders. Suzette went to bed after it at 9:30 and I stayed up until 11:25 to watch an episode of George Gentley. Coincidentally, in both episodes the killer turned out to be a child.

I the blogged and went to bed.

Bon Appetit 

May 13, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s Dinner - Sautéed Salmon with Sautéed Roasted Potatoes and Snow Peas

May 13, 2026 Breakfast - Pain au Chocolate Lunch - Mary and Tito’s Dinner - Sautéed Salmon with Sautéed Roasted Potatoes and Snow Peas

I got up around 6:15.  I watched the market dip and then recover for the NASDAQ to end up over 314 points and for my portfolio to increase by 1%.

At 10:00 I ate a pain au chocolate with a latte macchiato.

I made one more step toward dematerialization today. I received acknowledgment of acceptance by ICICI Direct of my application.

At Noon Henry arrived for lunch and I drove us to Mary and Tito’s. Henry ordered Chichirones, beans,  and red chili. I ordered a taco plate with two tacos, refried beans, and  lettuce and tomato garnish. I love the food at Mary and Tito’s but the fresh flowers on each table are fabulous.

We ate until 1:30. When I returned home I worked until 4:00 and napped until 4:45 when Suzette came home.  Then we ate som pistachios and then at 5:30 I drove to El Super and bought avocados, limes, lemons, oranges, cilantro, red and brown onions, a butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, Mexican squash, green onions, an eggplant, tomatoes, and Fuji apples.

Dinner - 

When I returned home at 6:45  Suzette helped unload the groceries. Suzette thawed two salmon filets and we snapped a pile of snow, peas.

Then Suzette blanched the snow peas and re-heated PPI roasted diced potatoes and leeks and then tossed the snow peas with the potatoes. She sautéed the salmon fillets and I poured glasses of Chablis Premier cru.

After dinner we watched Trump’s arrival in Beijing and sipped a limoncello with a lemon cookie.

Suzette went to bed at 9:00. I stayed up to watch the WNBA game between LA and Indiana Fever.

Bon Appetit

May 12, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Lime Restaurant. Dinner - PPI Pasta with Snow Pea, Shallot, and Mushroom Medley

May 12, 2026 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - Lime Restaurant. Dinner - PPI Pasta with Snow Pea, Shallot, and Mushroom Medley

I woke up at 6:00 and ate a bowl of granola with milk, yogurt, and strawberries as I worked at my desk until 7:45 when I went back to bed for an hour.

At 10:30 I drove to my doctor’s appointment at 11:30.

When it ended at nooon i drove to Lime to meet Suzette for Lunch.

Suzette ordered Pad Thai with pork made with Vietnamese wide noodles. Aaron and Monica joined us around 12:30.  Aaron and I each ordered chicken soup with pork, Wontons and egg noodles. Monica ordered salt and pepper fried shrimp. Lime specializes ih roast pork, so ant dish containing it will be wonderful.

Suzette left for exercise at 1:15.

We talked about Earn mostly until 2:00.

After lunch I drove to the Xfinity store and returned a box and picked up another one for our other TV.

Then I drove across the parking lot to the Walmart Neighborhood market and bought milk and two jars of pickled herring.

When I returned home it was 3:00. I checked the market and was surprised that I was down only marginally after Trump rejected Iran’s peace plan and oil soared.

From 3:30 to 4:00 I meditated with my little group of 4 others.

Then I lay down to watch the news and nap until 5:30.

Dinner - When I awakened we discussed dinner and decided to combine the leftover pasta abd chicken from last night with a mushroom medley using the orange oysters, shiitake, lobster, and black wood ear plushies sweet peppers, shallot, garlic from our garden, grape tomatoes, and snow peas

I chopped the ingredients and Suzette sautéed them and then tossed them with the PPI pasta and some white wine. There is enough left for another dinner.

I opened a bottle of Kirkland Chablis Gran Cru, the only Chardonnay we drink that was delicious. It was slightly sweet and yet had goof minerality. A lovely bottle of wine.

From 7:00 until 9:00 we watched Finding Your Roots and then Suzette went to bed. I ate a bowl of chocolate ice cream with maraschino cherries and watched Frontline’s feature of the fight between the federal reserve and Trump and went to bed at 10:00.

Bon Appetit

May 11, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - French Onion Soup. Dinner - Pasta with Snow peas, Ricotta, and leeks

May 11, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - French Onion Soup. Dinner - Pasta with Snow peas, Ricotta, and leeks

I woke up at 6:45 and watched a few minutes of pre-market activity that did not look promising, which made sense after the monster day on Friday, but as the day progressed the risk on attitude prevailed. Although the NASDAQ was up only 27 points at the end of the day, there a surge of buying in the high tech part of the market by mid day that slackened a bit by the end of the day. My portfolio ratcheted up another .92% today. This rally is inexplicable, except to say that the critics who criticized NVIDIA for its circular investing have changed their critique to praise as all of NVIDIA’s investments are part of this high tech rally. Mid day Nvidia was up $6.00 and it closed at $219.44, up $4.22.

Suzette left early for an appointment and I helped fix breakfast for Billy and Elaine. I toasted bagels and sliced red onion and Gravad lax. Billy wanted to make a sandwich and breakfast with the bread he bought in Santa Fe. He smeared the bread with cream cheese and piled it with  slices of Gravad lax.

Elaine ate granola with strawberries.

I sliced 1/2 of a bagel in half and toasted each thin slice and spread cream cheese and garnished with slices of red onion and Gravad lax.

I ate about 2/3 and drank about 3/4 of a latte macchiato by 8:45 when Billy announced it was time to leave for the airport.

When I returned I finished my bagel and coffee as I watched the market rise on TV until about 9:45.

I then finished reviewing two documents for Earn.

At 11:00 my new client arrived and we spent a bit over an hour on his case.

I then called Karim and Rahim about dematerialization and documents Karim needed notarized.

Then at 1:00 I walked to the bank. I accumulated over 2800 steps today, so a bit above average

At 2:30 discussed my comments on the Earn documents with Aaron.

When we finished around 3:45 I had still not eaten any lunch. As I was heating a bowl of French Onion Soup with croutons and melted Jarlsberg cheese.  Suzette arrived and grabbed a bowl of grapes and went to her office to work.

Finally at 4:30 I was able to watch some news until 5:30 when Suzette wanted to fix dinner.

Dinner - I chopped the We went to the garden and picked a handful of snow peas from our vines plus some basil leaves and parsley.

I chopped the parsley and basil while Suzette snapped the snow peas and chopped some leftover chicken and fetched the jar of fresh ricotta we bought at the Santa Fe farmers’ market on Saturday and combined all the ingredients into a lovely mixture. garnished with fresh grated Parmesan cheese.

 We drank glasses of Archery Summit Vireton Pinot Gris.

Later we watched the Antiques Roadshow and ate Danish cookies and I made a chai. The second hour was another Santa Fe Session from the plaza om Museum Hill.

We went to bed at 9:00 and watched Tucci in Italy for a few minutes but  went to sleep when we saw that it was about the cuisine of Tuscany that we had seen previously.

Suzette went to sleep and I blogged for a wjphile and the watched Rachel.

Bon Appetit