Tuesday, March 26, 2002
Yesterday the AvantGo support team replied to my message from Wednesday, March 20: "It doesn't appear our software was able to install correctly. We apologize for the install errors you experienced with our new 4.0 client. We believe the problem is related to your Install Shield software on your desktop and are looking into a possible workaround. In the meantime, users have advised us that installing 3.3 allows you to use AvantGo." So I uninstalled 4.0 and tried to install 3.3 but got an error that there wasn't enough disk space (but there really was). I rebooted, cleaned out all registry entries that mentioned AvantGo, rebooted, and then 3.3 installed just fine. We had our potluck today. I brought white cake cupcakes with lemon creme frosting and pastel sprinkles. James brought pink lemonade pie which had Cool Whip on top that had melted. Ena brought a taco salad. Joel brought bread, crackers, brie with parsley, and pepper jack cheese. Cindy brought a green salad with walnuts and blue cheese chunks. Rodney brought steamed rice and chicken. Debrah brought a macaroni and cheese pie. Melissa brought a fruit salad. Kristina brought some brie. Patrick met with Jason Baum today for directed writing. I sent Heather a photo of Robbie Williams that looks a lot like Joel. She responded, saying that he also looked like Carson Daly (but I couldn't figure out if she meant Joel or Robbie). I didn't know who Robbie Williams or Carson Daly were, but I agreed that Joel looked like both of them in some way. I updated the School's Web site with schedule changes sent to me by Debrah. I also created new pages for Cindy's academic calendar for 2002-2003. Patrick found out today by mail that he didn't get the Stegner fellowship for which he applied several months back. Stanford got over 1200 applications, and they chose 5 recipients each for poetry and fiction. The bright side is that we now have Tobias Wolff's autograph. Tina left a message on our machine—she's on spring break and had some spare time to give us a ring. How thoughtful! Patrick has been working on revisions since completing the first complete draft of his novel Second Island on March 13. Of late, he's been stuck on one scene, so he's changing the Australian restaurant in chapter 14 to a French one. Sophos sent a reply to my message yesterday saying very unhelpingly, "Start the service manually." That's all fine and dandy if all 3 services got installed by the installer, but they didn't—only 1 shows up. I need to find out which ones don't show up so that I can reply to their lame reply with the details. Yet another night of avoiding my tax return! Woo hoo!