Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Spent most of today working on stylesheets. James gave me what I think is the last of his changes for the interview reply project. If I finish my stylesheet updates by Friday we'll make that all live then. Lunch with Mike Lemont. He wanted to take me to lunch to thank me for helping with his computer e-mail setup at home. He used to have Cindy's position in our office and tho he's retired he helps out now and again when needed. We ate at Chow—he wanted to go to Avenue 9 but wasn't aware that they had closed permanently in recent weeks. Lunch was delicious, as always at Chow, and we talked about local politics, dogs, the current admission cycle. Doctor appointment: my knee injury from yoga in March needed a look. X-ray for my knee. Dentist appointment: Alex Kogan's office at the Sunset Premier Dental Group aka anydental.com, where as I was leaving the receptionist complimented me on my straight teeth but then insulted me by saying how yellow my teeth were and wouldn't I be interested in getting a bleach treatment for US$250? not exactly in those words, however. Just what would Miss Manners say to that, I wonder? Would it have been rude to grimace and say, "Thanks, but your scam won't work on me."? Patrick and I are switching dental plans at the end of this year, and we plan to switch dentists as well. Dinner at home with Patrick: crab cakes, steamed asparagus, Ore Ida Zesties fries with some grated cheese on top. (The Zesties were just-okay-da instead of Ore Ida.) Wrote a second batch of greeting cards and will mail them tomorrow. We ran out of 37-cent snowman stamps. Got a lot of work done on Domenica's site and Lodestar. For Lodestar, I coded 3 poetry pieces that came late, edited Patrick's bio page, fixed up the code for checking for invalid URLs, inserted a 404 page that we never properly had before. For Domenica's site, did some tweaking based on the results of my cross-browser testing. Tina sent me the scan of her blouse I'd been asking for, but I didn't have a chance to work with it just yet. Maybe I'll redo the entire home page, as I'm thinking it's not the way I want it anymore. We have plans to see Felice's exhibit at the SF Library downtown this weekend. Felice himself will be in town to open the exhibit with a personal tour on Saturday as well as a discussion at A Different Light bookstore on Sunday. We're both looking forward to it. Chatted with my brother and sister and (briefly) Jeremy. It's Dexter's birthday, so I called to wish him a happy one. They went to dinner since Dex's original birthday plans fell through. I also called to find out what everyone is doing for the holidays. Dex has to work (only one day off) and Lani's family is travelling south. The bus was awful again today. Just don't ask.