Thursday, March 4, 2004
Breakfast: oatmeal. 8:30 am bus showed up at 8:45. I got on and the driver told me I had to get off the bus because it wasn't working right. It smelled funny inside and there was a panel in the back of the bus that was removed. Ended up just catching the 8:50 bus, so it took me about 45 minutes to get to work. Coded the instructions I wrote yesterday into Web pages, which took most of the day. Helped James with his monitor going out on him, helped Cindy remember the guest login for our network, helped Debrah with a problem with the mail vacation message service (which initiated her request but didn't complete it successfully—the .forwardtemp file hadn't replaced the original and the .vacation.db file was corrupted), helped Chris with a printing problem with some CAD browser plug-in. Said hello to Matt, who wires the fire alarm boxes in the building. Chatted with Leandro about my phone not working. He said he would stop by next week. Helped Diane N troubleshoot a problem with her computer—she gets an error message when connecting through her dialup connection. I discovered that my data line had gone dead—must call Mike R about that. Grr! Helped Joel with the internship interviews today. Bought Panda Express for Joel coz he was stuck shepherding the interview process. Lunch at desk by myself: Panda Express. My fortune: You have executive ability. Discovered problems with the wireless access points on MSB1 but when I stopped to say hello to Kirk H he told me that ENS was installing a new WAP and that was probably causing problems. Dinner at Eric's Restaurant with Patrick: sizzling rice soup, mu shu pork, walnut prawns, steamed rice, tea. Did they always use tortillas for mu shu? That's not right, and I was quite disappointed that they would pull such a stunt. Walnut prawns were as delicious as ever—best in the city, as far as we know. Patrick's fortune: The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort. 5 12 22 38 42 27. My fortune: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. 6 18 25 36 41 14.