Thursday, October 16, 2003
Visited MSB9 with Cindy—the furniture started to get installed today. They'll finish tomorrow. I made signs to post on our office door after we move and signs to guide people to our new location. Link checking. Answered some questions for Martha about font sizing and Web sites. Talked with Robert Weinberg about the timing of data cable installation today and tomorrow. Mike Renoude's voicemail greeting says he's out of the office until Monday the 20th. Cindy expressed frustration at his lack of proper follow-up—we had to bother Robert with an emergency call because we hadn't been getting details quickly enough from Mike. Helped Julie Dang set up a mailing list for Clinical Pharmacy 152.03. Worked on the student directory on the web project. It's been very hard to concentrate on this project because of the many distractions and the many things that come along that can't be postponed, such as gathering phone numbers and IP addresses for the office migration. Worked on the for-internal-use-only web page project. Chatted briefly with erico and bk on IM. BK has been back from Germany a week or so and had beautiful photos to share of Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, and other places with which I'm not familiar. Played a bit with our Google SiteSearch setup. Bought money. Made sure MSB9 was all locked up as Cindy requested before I left work. Dinner at Chow with Patrick. I waited a few minutes in front of the restaurant, and while I was waiting one of our pharmacy students—Carolyn Wu (Woo?) graciously introduced herself and thanked me for designing a great website for the students. She said something to the effect that everyone in the class thinks I'm really cool. She too was eating at Chow tonight; a going away dinner for someone. It's always very nice to hear stuff like that, so I thanked her and Patrick arrived just then. We shared a bowl of mushroom soup, Patrick had autumn mushroom pizza with goat cheese and arugula with an iced tea, I had tomato, basil, and mozzarella cheese pizza and a tropical green tea (hot). We shared an order of the ginger cake with caramel and pumpkin ice cream. About $32.39 before a $4.50 tip. We had intended to watch Pirates of the Carribean at Cole Hall but by the time we got back to my office we were too tired for the show which we knew would have ended around 10:45 pm, so we just went home. Chatted with Auggie a minute before leaving. The 8:30 pm bus 66 left at around 8:42 pm—some new driver instead of reliable James. Patrick received 3 copies of the new Ontario Review which has a story of his in it—"Where It Takes Us." He's very happy with how it turned out. I asked him why his name wasn't on the cover with some other writers, and he said, "Oh, I'm not that big yet." At home we looked at our absentee ballots: 14 measures, mayor, D.A., and sheriff to decide—oh, the burden of democracy! Read The World According to Shane—a blog by a high school and college friend of my pal Chris De Lay, then read Chris's blog, then Travis'. Read Google news (Staten Island ferry accident, iTunes for Windows ["Hell froze over."—heh!]).