Monday, March 7, 2005
Three times now when using Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta I've seen an alert come on my screen. It appears in the lower right corner and then moves—very quickly—up the screen. Every time it happens, I expect it to stop somewhere so that I can read it, but it never stops! It just keeps going up the screen until it goes off the top. Breakfast: oatmeal with dried nectarine. 8:30 AM bus didn't show up, so I got to work at 9:30 AM instead of 9:00 AM. Filed a complaint about the problem on the Muni web site. Chatted with Mark B about e-mail migration cleanup. Coded new news story for home page for Susie, sent it to her for review. Notified Nancy H of some broken links in the calendar site. Helped Chris C with laptop firewall questions. James sent me a Flash game called Can You Pass the Third Grade? You have to drag United States states names onto the map within a certain amount of time. I got most of them right. I remember I messed up Ohio and Iowa and I got a few of the northeastern states wrong. Lunch with Joel at Asqew Grill (415-701-9301, 1607 Haight Street at Clayton). We caught a 43 bus that just pulled up in front of Medical Sciences and took a bus to the Haight. It was nice to get out to a different neighborhood for lunch. We discovered the napkin Nazi—one of the servers who prevented me from taking napkins so that I could wipe down a table that I cleared myself (since the staff was busy doing other things). She offered to do it with a rag, and then, to my surprise, she actually did it! Joel had pig chunks on a skewer. I had chicken chunks on a skewer. We both had the Jasmine rice. Diet Coke for Joel, iced tea for me. About $16 before tip. In Asqew Joel and I saw a man wearing sunglasses where each lens was in the shape of a martini glass. After lunch we shopped not very assertively in clothing stores. We saw a choir singing for money outside of Ben and Jerry's. We returned to the office, a few minutes late for our informal planning meeting for Kristina's baby shower. Made live new news. More e-mail migration cleanup. Met with James to review minor changes to admissions pages. Installed Office 2003 and Office Updates for Ena and Joel. Installed Firefox 1.0.1 for Joel, but his copy of Firefox seems to have some problem installing extensions. Dinner at home by myself: nasi goreng, bread and butter. Did a whole bunch of dishes, cleaned the kitchen. Coded all fiction for Lodestar.