Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Today at work I spent most of the morning building a new form for James to accept registrations over the Web for our application workshops for prospective students. I updated two mailing lists for Joyce August. In the afternoon I went through tedious procedures hardening Red Hat 7.3 and wishing that OpenBSD were further along in its project enough for me to trust that I could install it without compatibility problems. Dinner at home with Patrick: me having leftover rice pilaf and pork chop and new corn on the cob, him having a roast beef sandwich from Subway and corn on the cob. I meant to call my sister because it's her birthday, but I forgot! We'd been cleaning and preparing for Tina Luu's arrival. She's staying with us until Friday, and we can't wait to see her again! Tina is a friend of mine from college at UC Santa Cruz, and we are very close. She is one of my best friends. We picked her up at the airport, but not until after a great deal of trouble locating her. Her airline switched her flight and assured her the crew in SFO airport would know to reroute us to her new gate, but they did not. We spent about 90 minutes wandering the airport and dealing with the incompetent paging system which seems to restrict pages to the terminal from which you call rather than paging the entire airport. (We weren't told this was how it works, but that's what our experience was.) We eventually found each other and had a late snack at Bagdad Cafe. Our surprise for Tina was a box of assorted Godiva truffles as well as a print ad from the recent Pride celebration with a gay porn star who resembles both Daniel and Jason (!). We presumed that Tina would share her box of truffles with us, but NO!-- she kept them ALL to herself! Just so you know. Now we know better.