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Geez, had to spend 20 min last night removing spurious entries from the comments database, blog spam. People, typically in Asia, paid to post links to spam sites. Pretty annoying. I don't think it's bots because the number of entries is always limited and they are careful to find a deep page in the site so I won't find it right away. The logs show me all these hits from like Egypt or China or Qatar which is when I realize they are at it again. I have been resisting putting in more security but I may have to do it eventually. I ended up removing a couple hundred entries altogether.

Week moving by slowly, it may be because I am fighting off the flu, kind of a pain. Txt'd some with Bill this evening, he is charging ahead with his apartment renovation, copycat!

Had an incident in our building today, no hot water, some sort of a problem. They have 5 plumbers working overnight to fix it, let's see if it's back by when we get up in the morning. Rainy and relatively mild weather this evening.

We are going to try and go to Ikea Fri evening to see if we can return the cabinets we didn't use. It will be a close call, Friday will be exactly 90 days after the original purchase which is the period open for returns. If we can swing it, I think we may get as much as $300 back, let's see.

Going to bed soon, low energy.

Today we had the day off, which was super useful to catch up on errands, paperwork, bills, etc. We got up late, and spent the day home. We went to Choshi for lunch (sushi) and Nicole picked up stuff at Whole Foods for dinner (chicken soup and pizza for me). I have a sore throat, can't swallow

Last night we went to Del Posto for dinner with Ingrid and Edward, it was super nice. We had the Grand Tasting menu, it was our self Valentine's present . A picture of the restaurant dining room below:

Countertops installed, plus the exhaust and hood above the stove, plus the wine fridge. Slowly moving along.