Monday, November 17, 2003
Cheerios and rice milk for breakfast. Ariel Malig finally figured out the problem with our slow internet connection at work: cables in the service closet weren't connected correctly. His explanation went over my head, but just like little Anakin, he moved things around until it was working right. My dslreports speed tests went from about 43-481 to 47360-19323—I just about fell out of my chair I was going so fast. The speed is so fast, in fact, that it's off the scale for dslreports' speed test. Faster than "rocks" and "awesome" and "insane" and "dude!" Now that's a fast connection! Completed finishing touches on the homecoming photos and sent it off to Marie for review. Today is the birthday of my co-worker Melissa, so the office staff prepared a surprise potluck celebration. Chris brought seasoned fried shrimp and also cheese and scallion cornbread, Joel brought plain cornbread, Kristina brought Caesar salad with croutons, James brought spicy jambalaya, Debrah brought chocolate swirl brownies, Ena brought tableware and drinks, and I brought Patrick's version of Emeril Lagasse's pumpkin bread pudding with Kentucky bourbon sauce. Cindy had to be in a meeting at noon but showed up with a lovely bouquet of tulips for Melissa. Worked with Steve and the electrician to move an electrical outlet for one of our printers and to determine logistics for some final painting that needed to be done. Chatted with David Powers, who needed someone to work a web redesign job for him—I declined. Worked with James to update the admissions calendar. Discovered a new blog called tecknetix while searching for a Web page describing the difference between Watchfire's Bobby and WebXACT services. Dinner at home with Patrick: fish fingers, cold linguine pasta salad with aioli, red bell peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes.