Friday, February 20, 2004
Breakfast: two cherry scones. Met with Annaliese, Julia, Kevin, Chandler, and ? for an hour about ePocrates licensing. New flat panel monitors have arrived for our front office staff and for Cindy. Talked with the front office staff about the forthcoming monitors. Kristina in particular had concerns about moving the position from the side to the corner, so I gave advice and hopefully we'll set her up with the same computer monitor arm that James is using with much success now. I called SF Micro to install the monitors for us on Tuesday. Finalized my licensure and examinations prep work and sent the URLs to Cindy for review. Lunch with Patrick and Susie at Pomelo. Susie had the koh suomi or kuo suomo or kho siumo or something like that: spicy coconut curry with green beans over rice. Patrick had the seared ahi tuna with noodles. I had the transparent noodles with chicken and Chinese sausage and snow peas. We treated Susie to lunch in exchange for information about her trip to China which was last year today. It's always nice to spend time with Susie, and her blouse stylishly matched the bright green interior walls of Pomelo. Met with Susie to discuss Web issues. Kristina had a need-a-laptop emergency (not her fault, we think), but when we got to N225 with the laptop we found the problem had been resolved in a different way. Did research about some issues that Kevin Souza brought up for the Student Computing Support committee (which I think I've formerly referred to as the ACC) regarding the ITS decision to no longer provide personal web space for faculty, students, and staff. Ugh, such a big topic. Chris C and I borrowed a wrench and a pair of pliers from Rodney and adjusted the student lounge computer arm so that it was stiffer—it kept falling down slightly when people typed on it. Better now. Gave James a gel mouse wrist rest from the Cyberguys shipment that arrived today. Dinner at home with Patrick: herbed pizza dough and pizza sauce from Trader Joe's, mozzarella, yellow bell pepper, mushrooms, and some other veggies I forgot already or couldn't see under the sauce. Caught up on e-mail.