July 30, 2025 Breakfast - Granola, milk, yogurt, and blueberries Lunch - Vietnamese 2000 No. 30 with Peter and Etienne. Diner - Sautéed Salmon filets and Leftover Chirashi, Seaweed Salad, and Steamed Vegetables
Today I worked from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. then I rested until 7:15 and then took a shower and watched the Market open from 7:30 to 8:00. It is hard to develop enthusiasm to work when the market is going up as it is these days.
I then ate a bowl of granola, milk, yogurt, and blueberries
I worked until 10:30 and then called in an order for 3 No. 30’s to Vietnamese 2000. Number 30 is a three tiered affair with lettuce cucumber sticks and mung bean sprouts on the bottom, steamed rice vermicelli noodles in the middle, and grilled marinated pork and fried egg rolls on top served with a special sweetened fish sauce. I packed the remaining bag of ice and can of condensed milk and drove to the restaurant at 601 San Mateo SE to pick up the stack of No. 30’s and then drove to Peter’s house.
When I arrived Etienne made strong coffee and I filled two tumblers half full with coffee and stirred in a generous T. of condensed milk and then filled the glasses to the brim with ice to make Vietnamese coffees for Peter and me. Etienne does not drink coffee.
Peter was supine in a lounger on the porch, due to recent back injury, so he ate his No. 30 from his lap and Etienne and I shared a TV table.
We had a pleasant two hour conversation as we ate and sipped our coffee.
Then I returned home and checked the market. The Dow was down 171 points, the S&P was down about $6.50, and the NASDAQ was up only 31 points, but many high tech stocks had moved up, except for Apple and Meta. I was pleased that in this mixed market result my portfolio went up .76% to regain more than half of its .93% loss yesterday. Then after the close Suzette came home around 4:00 and told me Meta had announced earnings and was up $74.00 in after market trading. I checked and that seemed to be correct along with Google and Microsoft. Apparently, some analyst projected the expected cash flows for the immense capital expenditures on AI from the Big Beautiful Bill’s new provision allowing the immediate write of of expenditure on capital goods such as Nvidia chips.
Nvidia’s quarterly revenue has more than quintupled in the last two years, reaching a record $44 billion in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. I don’t expect that to slow down in the next few quarters, so I will be excited to see if its stock pops also in the next day or two.
Suzette went to see her nutritionist yesterday and he told her that to lose weight one must sufficiently large percentage of protein to absorb the carbohydrates and that she needed to increase her protein intake dramatically, so this morning she thawed out two salmon filets.
At 6:00 she sautéed the salmon filets and I fetched all the leftovers from our lunch yesterday at Crazy Fish: a slice each of raw salmon, albacore, white tuna, Aji tuna, and hamachi sashimi, rice, seaweed salad, and steamed vegetables. Suzette ate the salmon and some seaweed salad and I ate the leftover sashimi, vegetables and rice for a wonderful high protein dinner. I drank Green tea with my dinner and Suzette drank water. I am feeling better being on a similar diet as Suzette.
Desserts and between meal snacks have almost completely been eliminated.
Except, tonight we made my famous chocolate baked pudding after dinner for the party Friday night to celebrate Mike and Joy’s marriage. Tonight we made the chocolate pudding and tomorrow I will make the coffee flavored creme anglais.
We watched Walking with Dinosaurs and called Willy before we made the chocolate cake
Then Suzette went to bed at 9:30 and I watched a documentary on the collapse of the Maya Metropolitan City state structure, many caused by extreme swings between extremely dry and wet years starting around 800 A.D. and an over dependence on growing corn instead of a more diverse diet.
Bon Appetit
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