Monday, February 2, 2004
Got all wet in a thunderstorm while waiting for a bus. Cold, wet. Argh! Joel's floaty pen collection has about tripled coz he did a sweet deal with a woman he found in a floaty pen forum who decided she was tired of her collection. He also showed off a new scarf he's been knitting. And he's gotten Kristina hooked on knitting as well! Today is Cindy's birthday, but she took the day off, so we'll celebrate it tomorrow. Edited and sent my draft of e-mail migration issues to Kevin Souza. Prepared my timesheet for last month for Cindy. Contacted Tim Yu of SF Micro to arrange for our office to use their services. Made an appointment with David Mischel to discuss authentication needs for the Student Directory on the Web project. Followed up with Richard Moncreiff regarding our wireless access point installation request. Answered simple e-mail questions for David Ferry and Tam Khuu. Followed up with ACPE about a broken link—they were linking to our very old website. Lunch with Joel and Ena at Cybelle's Front Room (9th and Judah), which opened just last Friday in place of the old Front Room. The place was all cleaned up and remodeled—it's a significant improvement. Two very nice leather couches face the fireplace, and this wall is painted a pale red with framed European artwork: food posters and a woman's portrait. I knew our server wasn't from around here by his accent and because he brought me milk with the Earl Gray tea I ordered. Turned out to be Irish, we found out later from the other server. She took away the milk and brought me a pot of hot water. Joel pointed out, "They shouldn't be serving hot water from a coffee creamer," and I had to agree, since the hot water drooled all over the table no matter who poured it. I had a mushroom burger, Ena had the shrimp louis salad [yes, the menu says "louis" instead of "louie"], Joel had a monster slice of canadian bacon with pineapple pizza. A plasma or LCD TV played VH1 classics from the 1980s: Pat Benatar, REO Speedwagon, John Cougar Mellencamp, Thelma Houston. Service was on the slow side, but friendly when it arrived. We had no complaints about the food—delicious, with portions somewhat larger than normal. Met with Susie. We covered a lot of ground, finalizing decisions about: the PHI link on the home page, the contact us section, the CSCC writing process flowchart, next steps for the Clinical Pharmacy and CSCC subsites. Made edits specifying the live date of PharmCAS, sent to James for review. Dinner at home with Patrick: ordered in Ha's because Patrick had a bad allergy attack today and wasn't feeling well enough to cook. Lots of sneezing and sniffling. Set up Gemstar to record a program. There's a problem with the ATI Scheduler process—it won't start automatically even though it appears in msconfig correctly. We got one show to record by leaving Gemstar open, but I'll have to see if there's a way to fix the ATI Scheduler problem so shows can be recorded even if Gemstar isn't open. Nothing obvious shows up in Google. Installed Windows Updates—another critical update for IE6.