Tuesday, August 16, 2005

I dreamt last night I was at the top of a telephone pole that was hundreds of feet tall. I was talking to two other people who were also on similar telephone poles. I wanted to get down from where I was, and I remember being very determined and careful as I worked my way down the handles—hand, foot, hand, foot—trying to avoid looking down at the dizzying height. I was doing alright for a short while, but then I started to feel the pole tilt—as though it had been rooted in sand. I started to go down with the pole, and as I watched the world come up to hit me, the pole and I accelerated, and when I would have hit the ground is when I awoke. It was still early morning—too early to get up, and eventually I realized it was all just a dream and went back to sleep.—Breakfast: english muffin, eggs, hash browns, sausage at home. Wrote up Outlook tips to send out to the office—a way of training everyone in the office in small easily digestible chunks which they can file and refer to later. Chris's laptop saga: Dell tech named Tito arrives, replaces mobo, problem still exists. He says the graphics card is not integrated into the mobo, which is what I thought and what the Dell tech on the phone agreed to. I send a message to the Dell tech I spoke with, asked him to fedex a graphics card replacement and a tech for tomorrow to do the install. (Sigh.) Got Joel's computer on Microsoft Updates—that's the whole office now on Microsoft Updates instead of Windows Updates. Hopefully it will make a big difference. Supp app troubleshooting—an applicant reported problems printing with Acrobat 7. I tested with Reader 7.0.3 and found no problems. Lunch: salad, garlic bread, a plum: $4.29. Dinner at home with Patrick: orange meal: mac and cheese with tuna, butternut squash soup, bread and margarine. Got my journal working again. The problem was that mod_rewrite wasn't working. I figured out I had to make a change to my user httpd.conf file and now all seems well. Next steps: set up automatic nightly backups like before, then set up editing from HTML-Kit. Downtime: 26 days. Loss of data: none. If you want to catch up on days missed, start on July 22.