Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Croissant and cheddar cheese for breakfast. The bus driver today was the slowest driver ever. Part of it was the old bus which you could hear complaining as it went up the hill, but the other part was the driver himself who took his time going 20 or 25 miles per hour even along the flat stretches. Helped Joel and Cindy set up and check in for day 2 of orientation. Made bunches of edits to various Web pages and made them live. Made live the photocopy pages and the PID pages. Attempted to set up Firefox on Joel's laptop. Les from SF Micro came to fix a number of printer problems. The manual feed tray for our Xerox is missing a spring or something. Melissa's makes a loud groaning noise. Ena's loses its network connection inconsistently and unpredictably. Bought a printer cable from The Source, which Les installed for Ena's printer. He replaced a set of rollers for Melissa's printer. He also ordered some new parts for the Xerox printer. Watched the tail end of Mike W's HIPAA presentation—he's fun; I like his style. Did my computer services presentation with Chris. It went well; no major problems except we couldn't get wireless to work with the laptop. It must have been the WAP or something else in the room because the same laptop connected in the same room just yesterday no problems, and Joel was connected with his iBook at the same time. Watched the orientation skits put on by the upperclasspeople. Chatted with Mike L about his computer. Briefly helped Melissa with her laptop purchase. Chatted with James about problems with his home computer. Turned off Alerter and Messenger services on Debrah's computer. My favorite bus driver James drove me home. Dinner at home by myself: frozen pizza (chicken something), side of leftover refried beans. Balanced the checkbook. Installed Windows and Office Updates. Installed Firefox 1.0 Preview Release. Whoo Hoo! So far not bad. IE View and Flashblock are not compatible, but Adblock and Web Developer Toolbar are. I also had to go back in to Tools > Options > Advanced > Accessibility to turn "Use Find As You Type" back on.