The morning started with a thud – I must have enjoyed the food from La Esquina too much, because my weight was up four pounds overnight! Too much chips and salsa, probably – I’ll stay away from the leftover chips for a while and see what happens.

Diane got bad news from Apple, too – they’d looked at her old iPhone SE and set its trade-in value at zero because the camera didn’t work well. She wasn’t surprised; this was the fourth camera for this particular phone. The first one failed while we were in Amsterdam, where they couldn’t help her because it was a US phone but Apple fixed it as soon as we got home; she’d paid for two more replacements because the camera kept developing funny spots, and it was doing it again when she sent the phone away. I just hope the new iPhone SE behaves better.

I had to do some plumbing repair, but it was easier than I’d feared. One of our toilets started running yesterday – the flapper wouldn’t seal. I turned it off and let the water leak out of the tank, then took out the flapper, assuming I’d need to go to the hardware store and replace it. But I noticed it was caked with green deposits (probably copper, at least I hope so); I scraped them off and put it back, and it seems to be behaving, so I get to stay away from the hardware store a little longer – these days, I really don’t want to go somewhere for only one thing!

Happy Cinco de Mayo! We celebrated by trying a new-to-us Mexican restaurant, La Esquina, about ten minutes from home. They just started using DoorDash, but I ordered the old-fashioned way – by phone – and had to go pick up the food myself. I had two reasons for avoiding DoorDash: giving the restaurant more of my money and being able to get margaritas, which weren’t on the DoorDash menu.

There were a lot of people waiting for their food inside the restaurant (I guess because it’s Cinco de Mayo), but I heard my name being called just as I got to the door and was in and out in just a couple of minutes. The food was very good; the margaritas were only OK. I’d get food from them again – but next time, I might make the drinks at home.

I had to leave our Trivial Zoom session to get the food; while I was waiting, I tried to connect from my phone. It was hard to hear, so I put the phone up to my ear – I am told that the visual was somewhat off-putting!

It was shopping day and the last day of Safeway’s sale on Talenti gelato, so we stocked up – you may not be able to tell in the photo, but we have ten pints in our freezer (some partially used). I’d’ve bought more, but we couldn’t find Belgian Chocolate or Deep Dark Chocolate. Such is life.