May 20, 2026 Breakfast - Granola and fruit Salad. Lunch - Vietnam 2000 with Keith Dinner - Chicken with Red Cabbage and Peas from the garden
Another simple day of food, but a huge day in the market.
Pi did not sleep well again, so I got up at 6:30 and took the trash receptacle to the curb and ate a bowl of granola with milk and fruit salad asI watched the market open very positively. After three losing days finally we had a winning day, probably because Nvidia was announcing its revenues after the close of the market.
Strangely, I went back to bed at 9:00 and slept until 10:30. I guess my body was telling me I needed to catch up on my sleep..
At 10:30 I showered, shaved and dressed and drove to meet Keith at Vietnam 2000 at 11:30. Keith was waiting for me when I arrived having walked from the senior center at Cooper and Monroe.
I ordered one of the specialties of the restaurant No 87, a layer of sautéed mung bean sprouts and cucumber sticks covered with boiled sheets of 2 inch wide rice noodles garnished with egg rolls and marinated and grilled slices of pork, without salt. This time the chef made the dish with a special noodle that did not contain any salt. It was less salty but the dish was served with a small bowl of sweetened fish sauce that I lightly dipped the ingredients into for added flavor. The sautéed vegetables make their own sauce and unique flavor and the pork and egg rolls have lots of flavor, so the dish does not lack for flavor and each bite can be enhanced by dipping in the sauce, which is very flavorful and only requires a tiny fit of sauce to flavor the entire bite of food.
Keith wanted spring rolls without meat, so he ordered an order with fried tofu.
We enjoyed a pleasant lunch as he described the complex legal situation with one of his properties and retained me to represent him.
After lunch I drove him back to the senior center and returned home at around 1:45.
I watched the market close and waited for Nvidia’s to announce its earnings at 2:45. Nvidia went up $2.86 during the day but then went went down after the earning announcement, which seems to be a common characteristic of Nvidia stock and does not bother me.
Typically the stock will start going back up as the President, Jensun Huang, is interviewed in the next few days and tells people how well the company is doing. In fact as I write this blog from 1:30 to 2:15 the stock has gone from -$1.33 to +$.53 in after hours trading, so it is on the move higher. As people realize that its investement in many of the leading high tech companies makes Nvidia a mini-conglomerate or investment vehicle in the most advanced companies in the high tech sector.
At 3:00 I lay down and napped until 4:00 when I completed the documents for the probate case I am working on.
Dinner - At 5:30 Suzette was home, working in her office when I finished my probate documents.
We decided to roast the duck quarters we bought at Talin, to sauté the remaining half head of red cabbage with strips of carrot and a red sweet pepper and ground cumin in olive oil, and blanch the sugar snap peas and snow peas from our garden and then enrich in butter.
I opened a bottle of 2018 Rivallana Rioja Gran Reserva I recently bought at Costco for around $10.00 that took about an hour to open up and express its mellowness.
Suzette cooked the duck in the steaming oven to try to soften it but it was freezer burned and so tough as to be inedible, so we threw the duck away and Suzette quickly microwaved slices of chicken breast.
She also flavored the red cabbage with sugar and apple cider vinegar in the German manner.
Dinner was saved as we watched Denver play Las Vegas in the NHL Western finals and then a Nova special on the Paleologic evidence that whales evolved from land walking mammals as we sipped the last of the wine with squares of a Trader Joe’s Belgium milk chocolate bar.
We went to bed around 9:30 and I slept until 1:30 when I awakened to blog and drink a cup of chai to start my May 21st.
Bon Appetit
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