October 17, 2025 Breakfast - Granola with Tropical Fruit Salad Lunch - Pho Lin. Dinner - Leftover Fish in lemon Sauce with Beans in gremolata sauce

October 17, 2025 Breakfast - Granola with Tropical Fruit Salad  Lunch - Pho  Lin. Dinner - Leftover Fish in lemon Sauce with Beans in gremolata sauce

I awakened at 7:30 and ate a bowl of granola with tropical fruit salad and yogurt and milk and watched the market go down but after a while it went positive, with most stocks ending up for the day with Apple up $4.84 and Nvidia up $1.41. It was tremendously reassuring that my two biggest holdings performed well today with a lot of help from other stocks

I zoomed with Willy for the first time from 8:30 to 9:30 who helped me put my name on the waiting list for a Robinhood Gold credit card.

Then at 10:00  held an arbitration hearing and had a good conversation with Lance Wainwright.

Then Suzette wanted to go to the sale at Talin, so around 11:30 we drove to Talin. Suzette found a number of interesting items to sell and use at the spa. While she shopped I wandered around the store and bought items that we were low on; Swad Mixed Pickle, rice flakes, shallots, and dried seaweed.

I then helped her load her purchases and we drove to Pho Ling for lunch. We decided to split and order of spring rolls wit a lovely peanut sauce and No. 50, a bowl with rice vermicelli noodles on one side and lettuce, cucumber sticks, mung bean sprouts and chopped basil on the other side with a small pile of pickled vegetables, and grilled marinated pork, a fried egg roll, and two grilled shrimp on top with a bowl of lovely fish sauce.

We were lucky to have ordered an appetizer and an entree, because we could not finish what we ordered and had to take some of the noodle dish home.

When we returned home Suzette drove off again in search of more Christmas plates and glasses.

I paid property taxes and utility bills and then checked the market and was pleased that there was no Friday sell off that provided my portfolio a .7% gain. 

I then worked for an hour on a pleading for the water case.

I stopped at 4:15 to watched the news and discovered that Prince Andrew, the King’s younger brother p, had given up his Royal title of Duke of York, which meant that Fergie is just Fergie again and no longer Duchess of York.

It also means that one more life has been affected negatively by Epstein.  I suspect there are several more that will be affected as the slow drip of facts regarding those affiliated with Epstein become public.

At 5:00 Suzette returned and we took a walk in the garden and then fixed dinner, which meant heating the leftover fish in lemon sauce and the beans in gremolata sauce and fetching and the cucumber, onion,n and cherry tomato salad and pouring two glasses of French Palantir Sauvignon Blanc.

After dinner we watched game 5 of the Mariners v. Blue Jays AL playoffs . Suzette cheered for the Mariners because Debbie’s niece is married to one of the players. We were thrilled when the Mariners tied and then several innings later hit a grand slam home run to win.

I ate a bowl,of quince, peach and blueberry cobbler with pistachio gelato with a cup of tea during the Miami game for dessert.

We then watched Louisville beat No. 2 Miami and then Suzette went to bed and I watched an equally impressive victory by Minnesota over No. 25 ranked Nebraska 24 to 6. Minnesota sacked Nebraska’s quarterback 9 times. It was a rout.

I then finished this blog entry and went to bed.

Gremolata might sound fancy, but really, it’s incredibly simple. An Italian condiment, it consists of chopped parsley mixed with lemon zest and garlic.

Bon Appetit