Thursday, 9 August 2012

Note:  Once again this post was not written in the morning.

Yesterday I woke up on Apurva's couch, around the time Apurva and Deepa were getting up.  Deepa came out first while Apurva was on the phone, and we chatted a bit about backgammon and life.  I went to the bathroom and got dressed, and by the time I got back Deepa was ready to leave work.  She left, and Apurva made coffee while I inquired about the unlocking process his phone had undergone in India.

Apurva went to take a phone call and I started researching how to downgrade the baseband of his iPhone.  Within just a few minutes I'd found a method that promised to work.  The method itself took about 45 minutes because of a long download, but it worked perfectly and now I have a "new" iPhone.  Apurva and I chatted a bit, and then it was time to eat a peach and leave.

I biked to the CalTrain, chatting with Diane (Diana?), a pleasant stranger, about the differences between the west coast and the east coast.  Fiddled with my bike a lot to lock it up right.  Eventually we reached Millbrae, and I got out to transfer to BART.  At first I got in the wrong car, so I had to move to another one.  All the while I was just fiddling with my new phone, downloading apps, toggling settings, etc.

Once off BART it was a beautiful day in the city.  I biked home, kind of exhausted, weighed myself, posted in the diet blog.  I chatted with Ambrose and nibbled on some food.  Then I went to the computer to write in this blog, and do some online chatting.  Pretty sure I talked to Rose.

I'm not exactly sure how I passed the hours, but eventually I found myself heading to the Mission to play backgammon with Jake.  On the way I posted an ad on OkCupid; as usual, no one responded.  Jake and I played a few rounds in Four Barrel Coffee (great place!), and he fought back mightily.  I was getting hungry, so we went to a Mexican restaurant (I think it was called Taqueria Cancún — and after a Google search now I'm sure it was), where I got a big plate of delicious slop.  On the way we talked about life in Silicon Valley, and some of his interviews.

After dinner we walked back to Four Barrel and closed the place out playing more backgammon.  We then went back to his hostel and listened to Schubert and Berlioz on a record player while we played yet more background and were subjected to a lot of marijuana smoke.  I reëstablished my lead to 9 points.

He went to a github meetup, and I walked home.  On the way, I called Nemo to see how VoG's guest night had gone.  I sent my hellos.  I came home, ribbed David about all the lights on in the house, helped the gays watch 'Threesome' (in the end, to no avail), and retired to my room to play on the internet and do crossword puzzles.

I spent the next hours listening to everyone talk loudly in the kitchen while I listened to Phil Hendrie and did puzzles in bed.  Eventually I asked them if they'd move into the other room.  They all politely did, except David, who grumbled and whined petulantly.

I would have gone to bed shortly thereafter, but I decided to download a backgammon game for my phone.  As a result, I didn't get to sleep until about 3 AM.