Friday, June 3, 2005

8:30 AM bus didn't show up, 8:50 AM bus showed up at 9:00 AM. Usual breakfast at the cafeteria. Cindy introduced a new temporary staff person for our office. Linkchecking. Updated the find a place to live page to include links for furnishing an apartment. Set up appropriate accounts and permissions for the new person. HTML e-mail. Follow-up with student e-mail problems. Monthly archiving of website data. Dinner at Satsuma (650-966-1122, 705 East El Camino Real, Mountain View) with the Honmas and my brother Dexter. I had trouble with MUNI on the way home and there was unexpected traffic on the drive down, so I arrived late. I had the roll combo special for $14.95—the chef chooses 3 special rolls. One was spicy tuna, another was unagi, and I can't remember what the third one was. Two of them had a tempura prawn down the middle. At least one was generously covered in orange fish eggs. Each roll was slightly larger than 2 inches in diameter. Delicious! Afterwards we had chocolate ganache cake and coffee at the house, I met Ray who had stopped by for a visit. Rob took photos of the poker table he had made for his friend Ken—an amazing job, complete with silkscreened felt top with his friend's initials! We watched a video my dad had made when my parents had traveled to Yellowstone recently. Rob and Dex played race car games on Playstation 2.