Eating outdoors on a warm, sunny San Francisco winter day with Seth in an pedestrian alley with a view straight to Union Square: a good lunch. We ate at Bistro 69, which was reasonable in both price and quality (though not excellent in either). It was good to see him before he left for Geneva again. I had a chicken eggplant parmesan sandwich and a caesar salad, which were good though left me still a bit hungry. The only thing missing from lunch was a beer, but we can't have everything, can we?