Sunday, November 2, 2003
Brunch at home with Patrick: scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, hash browns—a variation of My Favorite Breakfast! Office move. Picked up the bookcase I had bought for my office to take it home. Patrick went along to see our new office and help me load the bookcase into the car. Spent the whole day trying to get as many of the phone and data services working as possible. It wasn't easy because the network people didn't tell me what was and wasn't activated, so I had to go to each workspace with a laptop plugging the network cable in, waiting 10 seconds and watching the network status icon in the system tray. Same kind of thing for phones. Sometimes I'd find a live connection, and sometimes none of the ports would work. Had to get creative to get some temporary solutions. For example, I realized that I could actually get the server connected by connecting two 20-foot patch cables with a hub I had in order to reach a live port in a neighboring office. I wanted to connect more computers through the hub, but I ran out of patch cables.