Tue Nov 14 09:15:55 EST 2017 Slept from ten to six-thirty. Woke briefly around one-thirty. High of forty-four and mostly sunny today. Work: - Stupid mandatory benefits meeting at 10 AM Done. - Open patch Tuesday ticket Done. - Order two monitors and display port cable for Kristen Done. - Work on MECS https://github.com/junegunn/fzf Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch. Sunny. Bare trees. Leaves crunching on the ground. Home: - Work on blogs Done. - Go see Blade Runner 2049 at the theater, 8:50 PM Done. Picked up a few groceries on the way home. https://kottke.org/17/11/what-did-17th-century-food-taste-like > Maybe fried eggs don’t, but spices did. Coffee beans did. Cacao beans, potatoes, and tomatoes did. Europe was in such a hurry to upgrade the flavor of its bland, rotten food that it colonized most of the world, waged wars, enslaved millions, and invented the multinational corporation. See also Tom Standage’s An Edible History of Humanity and Charles Mann’s 1493. Lunch: coffee, falafel bowl Dinner: popcorn