Monday, July 15, 2002

This morning the 8:30 AM route 66 bus never showed up. I thought this was unusual, but a woman who was waiting with me was on her cellphone at 8:35 AM calling MUNI to complain that the bus didn't show up *again*. This eased my mind considerably, as I had been wondering whether calling MUNI to complain about problems in service would be effective in any way, and this was my proof. Just last night Patrick had reiterated his desire for us to map out where we want to live instead of San Francisco, and I agreed and gave him my gameplan outline. I had a meeting at 9:00 AM with Susie, and when I got to the office at 9:15 AM by way of the L-Taraval and the 44 bus and walking from 9th and Judah, Melissa informed me that Susie had just left. It made me wonder how many thousands of dollars of wasted UCSF personpower could be attributed to MUNI and how could they be held accountable? I didn't spend much time on it. Hopefully soon, Patrick and I will be living in some other city, and this will all be Someone Else's Problem.—On rebus, I uninstalled sendmail-cf and sendmail-devel. I also uninstalled the openssl package that came with Red Hat 7.3 because its installation location conflicts with where the Washington imap package wants it. Reinstalled openssl-0.9.6d to /usr/local/ssl/ using ./config and ./make. Installed Washington imap-2002.RC1 using make lrh and SSLTYPE=nopwdk, but couldn't figure out how to tell xinetd to use it (argh!). I'm beginning to think this Red Hat 7.3 installation will never properly function as an e-mail server like I want. Uninstalled a bunch of other rpms that I won't need (like audio and sound packages and XFree86 stuff). Had a devil of a time trying to figure out how to disable kdm from listening on port 1024. Patrick helped Sam move today. Patrick found out today that he got a jury summons for August 5—the day after we get back from our vacation. From the court's FAQ on their website: "Question: Why are jurors required to sit, sometimes for hours, in the jury assembly room? Answer: What might appear to be a waste of time to you is actually time being used by the judge and attorneys working on matters that must be done outside the presence of the jury. These events often arise unexpectedly and cannot be planned for in advance. Please be aware of these issues and bear with us as we all work to accomplish our goal of achieving justice for all." Patrick finished corrections for section 1.