October 23, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant. Lunch - Tanashi Dinner - Grilled T-bone steak, cucumber, onion, avocado, and Tomato Salad, Baked Green Grapes and Broccoli and sautéed Shishito Peppers.

October 23, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant. Lunch - Tanashi Dinner - Grilled T-bone steak, cucumber, onion, avocado, and Tomato Salad, Baked Green Grapes and Broccoli and sautéed Shishito Peppers.

We woke up at 5:00 but the sky was obliterated by cloud so I went back to sleep at 5:30 but Suzette stayed and did her water aerobics.

I reawaken at 7:40 and Showered and got dressed and ate a chocolate croissant with a cup of tea and then watched the funeral for Suzette’s mother at 9:00.

After the funeral I typed the book club meeting notes for the last book club book and at 11:30 drove to Tamashi to meet Aaron for lunch.

He loves their pork cutlet in Japanese curry sauce. I love their traditional Chirashi. Today I asked for Blue fin tuna and they gave me three pieces along with two slices each of Escolar, yellow tail, salmon, and Chilean Sea Bass. It was a wonderful assortment of amazingly fresh fish.

We talked for an hour about Earn as we ate. I took half of my Chirashi home

Then I drove to the State Bar headquarters to find out about CLE requirements. As long as I am licensed I must complete CLE.

Then I went to Shahin’s to find out about insurance on the candy store. The premium notice is not in yet.

When I returned home it was 2:30 and thawed a steak. When I checked my portfolio it was up .56%, so a bit more than half of yesterday’s loss had been regained. We appear to be in a melt down rather than I melt up.

Steve Rattner showed an amazing chart this morning that compared the current market PE for all stocks to the relative PE’s in the bubbles of j2000 and 1929 and our current PE is 29, which is higher than either of those bubbles. The chart showed the drop in the total capitalizations after those two bubbles broke. 2000 the drop was 50% and 1929 the drop was 85%. A pretty scary prospect. The melt down could get much worse.

I again continued typing the September meeting notes until 5:30 when I joined Suzette to watch the news. The big news is that Trump is demolishing 1/3 of the White House to build a huge ballroom.

Dinner - Suzette found and interesting recipe of baked cauliflower and green grapes seasoned with Z’ Atar, olive oil, and salt.

I went to the garden and picked basil and cherry tomatoes and Suzette picked shishito peppers and parsley. I made a salad of tomato, chopped basil. Lemon thyme, red onion, and cucumber and a Dijonnaise dressing made with Red wine vinegar, Dijon seeded mustard, and olive oil.

I also chopped the Cauliflower flowerets for the baked Cauliflower and grape dish. Both were a little old and I had to do surgery on the cauliflower and we had to pick through the grapes to find good ones.

We sautéed the shishito peppers on a skillet with olive oil and when the steak was ready I sliced it and Suzette put the baked cauliflower into a bowl and divided the sautéed Shishitos between the two plates and we picked slices of steak and filled our plates with salad and dressed it and spooned the baked cauliflower and grapes onto our plates. It was a fabulous dinner.

Suzette picked a Kirkland Pinot Noir that was the usual monopole and Pinot in name only to drink with dinner.

After dinner we watched a new Netflix movie, Oxford Year, that was a love story with a bitter sweet ending, not unlike Love Story.

Suzette went to bed when the movie ended at 9:15 and I stayed up to blog and watch another terrific episode of Foyle’s War set in 1947 weeks after the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem that was based on the Jewish Palestinian conflict. Yes, it has been going on since at least the 1940’s.

 I went to bed around midnight. After the fabulous meal we could not think of eating anything else, although I had my nightly tea during Foyle’s War.

Bon Appetit