September 23, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant Lunch - Saigon City Restaurant. Dinner - PPI Roasted Chicken, PPI Rice, Steamed Green Beans and Onion, Tomato, and Cucumber salad

September 23, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant Lunch - Saigon City Restaurant. Dinner - PPI Roasted Chicken, PPI Rice, Steamed Green Beans and Onion, Tomato, and Cucumber salad

I woke up at 6:30 and worked at my desk to finish transfer documents and Earn documents.

Then at 7:45 I ate breakfast of a chocolate croissant with tea because I knew I would eat an early lunch with Aaron and Monica. I harvested some lovage to take to them and dug out two invasive trees in the flower beds.

I met with Frank at 9:30 until 11:30 on a case.

Then I drove to Saigon City Restaurant ht Aaron’s barber Tony had recommended as the best Vietnamese restaurant in town.  Monica and I ordered soup with egg vermicelli noodles. Aaron ordered a rice dish. What was interesting was our soup came with a Vietnamese donut. All of our dishes were served with small bowls of a fiery hot chili sauce. I tasted a bit of it and it burned my lip, but Monica and Aaron seemed to enjoy it.  Monica put it into her soup and Aaron dipped the pieces of meat into it.

I mixed some with hoisin sauce a dipped my won tons into that mixture until I burned my lip.

I had some soup left and they helped me put it into a container in a plastic bag to take home.

Aaron’s trip to Milan and Zurich went well and it appears that our Earn system has been adopted as an international standard for describing conservation credits and content.

After lunch filled Willy’s car with gas and then drove to Zia Trust in Uptown and picked up my RMD check and said hello to Henry and Marie Elena who handle my Self-directed IRA account.

I then drove home and checked my portfolio. Today I lost about 1/2 of what I gained yesterday in a down day in the market with a drop in Nvidia of $5.18 leading the market down.

I rested and read my book in the afternoon until 6:30 when I made dinner.

Dinner - I snapped the green beans I bought at El Super and blanched them with a little water and butter in the microwave for 2.22 minutes. I then heated the PPI leg quarter and some rice in the microwave and fetched the Cucumber, onion, and tomato salad and poured a glass of Belle Vignes French Sauvignon Blanc and ate a wonderful dinner as I watched a new episode of Finding Your Roots. 

After dinner I returned to bed and read my book and finished it.

Bon Appetit.