Friday, April 8, 2005
Joe's Os for breakfast. I forgot to mention yesterday that Cindy brought a dead mouse into my office. It was all white. She handed it to me, and I picked it up and turned it over, and it was the old-style ball mouse, so we chucked it in the trash and I set her up with a new optical mouse we had lying around just for an occasion like this. E-mail migration issues. Helped Christopher, a repair technician from Dell, to repair and set up the student lounge computer. Replacing the motherboard did indeed fix the problem. He pointed out where capacitors on the mobo had burned up, causing the problem. Scanned in purchasing documents to archive as PDF. Helped a student with instructions for building a website (spindocs). Helped a student understand how to leave mail on the server with Outlook. Partial lunch: Vietnamese sandwich for $3 from a pharmacy student doing a fundraiser. Installed Firefox 1.0.2 updates, Office updates, Spywareblaster 3.3 updates for some office computers. Helped Chris set up his CMS BounceBack drive—it seems to work despite an unintuitive interface. It also wasn't very easy to set up. Installed Microsoft Antispyware Beta for some office computers. One of the students brought in a small, expensive-looking cake for the office as a thank you gift, but so few of us were around, Cindy and I decided that Ena should just take it home to share with her kids. I got photos, though. Dinner: Subway sandwich. Home. Computer maintenance. Today was Joe's birthday celebration at the Metro, but my eczema has been bothering me lately, and I feel miserable. I blame it on stress.