Thursday, February 23, 2006
Chatted with student CA about e-mail, vpn, messages stored on versus off the server. Idea box forum work. Updated a listserv for Joel. Joel repaired some jeans for Patrick last night. When I saw the finished product, I sent him an e-mail: "your work is so beautiful it makes me wanna cry. thanks!" Schedules updating. Reviewed the entering students page. More interviewing with Jeff M. Lunch: Panda Express by myself. My fortune: You are artistic and others can relate to you. Where was Joel today? I didn't see him around very much. Wrote up an announcement to students regarding the discontinuation of services for one of our servers. Checked in with web site owners who will be affected. Set up my refurbished monitor. Logo handoff prep for student CN. Early dinner at Dragonfly with Patrick and Mom Ryan. This was the first time we went for the early dinner special, which includes the golden prawns appetizer and a glass of wine for each person for free. Dinner was perfect, each dish a delight. We had treasure rolls, flaming beef, jumbo prawns with green curry and yams, coconut rice, hainan rice. The treasure rolls came with circular, plastic, screened mats to assist with rolling (I guess?). The flaming beef was cooked tableside in a ceramic bowl sitting in a plate of flaming rubbing alcohol. The jumbo prawns were very jumbo, and the prawns hung like hooks over the edge of a hollowed out coconutand within was the green curry. As we had seen before, the rice was served in origamibasketed banana leaves nestled within a round woven basket. We believe this was Mom Ryan's first visit to a Vietnamese restaurant, and she enjoyed it so much she's thinking of bringing a friend back for lunch soon.