Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Set up a Samsung SyncMaster 170T monitor for James. It's a 17-inch model, and it's quite beautiful. It has a lazy susan embedded in the base so discreetly you wouldn't have thought it was there. Setup was a breeze—James kept pointing at the "Auto" button while I was manually setting size and position, and once I pressed that, it automatically adjusted the entire display and looked perfectly. The rest of the day I spent trying to build our student database. However, I also talked with Mike Webb today and he agreed we need more collaboration on how I can get data from their database—he gave me some instructions and installed an ODBC or DB2 client-something on my machine, but I have no data dictionary to tell me what's what and what I can access. Dinner with Amy and David at Nirvana. We were served by a sexy cutie named Derrick. We had the appetizer sampler platter. David had a Sprite and spinach and tomato noodles. Amy had a Nirvana Colada and mango taro noodles. I had green tea and tiger prawn noodles. Patrick had a Saketini and salmon linguine. I also got back my Qube, which had been living with them until we got our DSL installed.