for lunch i had some sesame paste soup, avocado toast, sichuan paocai, and the last of the leftover drumsticks. even though i thought about it, it was too windy to fly the drone. i spent the afternoon making a few edits to the google sheet, snacked on black melon seeds, and watched some television (either news about the fortress DC preparation for biden's inauguration or the life below zero marathon). steve mcqueen's thomas crown affair was playing on pluto tv, my father told me the story of how in high school he chased after steve mcqueen on his motorcycle when mcqueen was in taiwan shooting the sand pebbles (1966). he chased him all the way to the grand hotel, where he finally got an autograph. that lead me down a rabbit hole of cold war pilot defections from china.

for dinner there was salted pork, eggplants, string beans, and more sichuan paocai. i biked home afterwards, my chains skipping when i tried to go uphill, i'll need to take a look at that tomorrow.