Friday, October 24, 2003

Abs workout. Breakfast at home with Patrick: he had yogurt with walnuts and honey and banana, I had scrambled eggs, sausage, hashed browns, toast. Telecommute today. Link checking. Updated news and calendar. Updated template files to the student directory on the web dev server. Got called in to work: Cindy and Joel needed help with a 32-megabyte (!) PowerPoint file that wouldn't open. I copied it to my computer, made a PDF out of it, copied the PDF back to the laptop, then gave them all instructions on how to use Acrobat Reader as a presentation tool instead of PowerPoint. Picked up Patrick at Sweet Inspirations, grocery shopping at Super Sunset—boneless, skinless chicken boobs for $3.00 per pound! crab claw meat: 50 claws for $5.00! I didn't like that Super Sunset had no restroom, however. I went to the nearby Round Table Pizza with every intention of ordering a personal pizza as a snack but when I saw their restrooms were closed, I left. I went to a nearby Chinese restaurant, ordered combo chow mein to go, then used their restroom. The chow mein was noteworthy for the 7 meats in it—chicken, barbecued pork, fried tofu, octopus, abalone, shrimp, and scallop—and doubly noteworthy for it's nearly complete lack of vegetables—only bean sprouts and a few scallions. I'll never eat there again. Back home: Patrick cleaned the apartment while I continued to work. Finished breadcrumbs modifications necessary for the student directory on the web project. Breadcrumbs can now be locally overridden, and there's now a new default method of handling that provides local webmasters greater control over their breadcrumb naming. Listened to MC Solaar and Alliance Ethnique during the day. In the evening, we listened to feeds found on earplug.cc such as DJ Ulysses, which we liked. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover risotto, yesterday's pastries from Sunset Bakery.