first stop was the beacon street whole foods, to return the universal bathroom sink drain plug. i then went to market basket to get some beef jerky on sale and a cabbage for the cafe. when i got back to the house a bit after 10am, lauryn was gone. my mother called me, said they also needed bean sprouts at the cafe. so back i went, to market basket again for the bean sprouts. i then rode to the porter square star market to pick up some boneless chicken thighs on sale, before heading to the cafe to work.
work was uneventful. it got busy for a while, which made the day go by faster. i stole a few minutes to eat an old tea egg and to reheat a meat bun for lunch. i also picked out some food that a customer had thrown away, it pains me to see all that good food go to waste. my aunt stopped by to have some zhajiang noodles and franz showed up with some friends in the early afternoon for lunch. at 3pm i tuned into youtube tv to watch jack smith give a short announcement of the indictment before leaving without any additional comments to reporters. we also got some torrential rain in the afternoon, the kind that spontaneously generated out of thin air. i was able to turn off the automated sprinklers right before we got a free soaking. i have no doubt that we got enough rain to refill our rain barrels again, which were pretty full to begin with (just down one barrel).
so after it stopped raining around 4:30pm, i returned home. i wore my pale khakis which i was afraid would get splattered with these wet road conditions, but i rode carefully, and got home unscathed. the rain washed away yellow tree pollen into the storm drains.
i was finally able to log into the uber eats manager account. for some reason it doesn't authenticate via password, but requires either an e-mail or a phone number. i logged in using my sister's credentials (after she told me the passcode that was sent to her e-mail) and created my own manager's account. i added some photos (which may require a week to authenticate). while searching through the options, i noticed something in our payments: uber eats takes a 25% cut from the profit. unfortunately all our prices reflect a grubhub markup, which is only 13%. so we actually lose money when people order through uber eats. i changed some of the prices, but now there's a difference as much as $3 comparing pick-up orders to uber eats deliveries.
lauryn didn't get home until 8pm, after going out for some chinese dinner with coworkers. she immediately took a shower and then retreated to her bedroom, i didn't get a chance to ask her if she wants to go see the pride parade tomorrow. a part of me sort of hopes she'll say no, because it's easier to be a photographer without having to babysit someone. but a part of me hopes she'll say yes, because i know it's definitely something she's never experienced before.
i made some luxury korean ramen for dinner just as soon as the NBA finals started at 8:30pm. this was game 4, and a must-win for miami if they don't want to be down a 1-3 hole. how well teams play can be summed up by the scores per quarter. the heat managed to win the first quarter but by a single point, while the nuggets won the 2nd and 3rd quarter. the 4th was a tie, but denver played too well for miami to overcome the point deficit. what i find particularly amazing is how the nuggets can maintain (and sometimes even expand) their lead even with their star players resting on the bench. let's just say i'm very impressed with the nuggets, and their performances in these final games shows me they're worthy of being the champions. miami might win game 5, but denver's eventually victory seems all but inevitable.