Thursday, June 15, 2006

Usual oatmeal breakfast at home. Dropped off the car at the tire shop to get 4 new tires installed (Falken Ziex ZE512). The shop had one of their men give me a lift in to work—that was very helpful. Security awareness poster work for Tiki. The tire shop calls and says my car needs new struts—another $1,000. I say yes. Where is Chris Radu when I need him to help me make decisions like these? James and I figured out some historical fact about when he posted a certain file to the web using data from my journal and some sleuthing of last modified date stamps on files we uploaded. He needed the information to report to someone else who was asking about it. It was somewhat surprising to me we were able to find what he needed since I know I don't write about every little detail of my life, but when we both saw the evidence he needed staring back at us I felt as though my journal had a little life of its own. Chatted briefly with Rick about clientless VPN testing and spysweeper. Lunch with Joel at Pomelo (415-731-6175, 92 Judah Street). He had manila (rice noodles) and I had avignon (beef stew). Delicious! Dell ImageBuilder work—problems with component upload. BITS says it uploads but they don't appear when I go to look in my component manager. Left work. Hailed a cab and after I got in I realized I didn't have much cash on me. The cabbie didn't seem to care—the fare was off by only about $5 and I was very grateful. Picked up the car at the tire shop. I had to wait for them to finish the alignment (even though they told me the car was done around 11:00 AM?). Carlos gave me a free coupon for a free car wash across the street. The car was dirty, so I took it over and it was an automated deal—I didn't have to get out of the car. An attendant took my coupon, and I was through the wash in about 10 minutes—fast. Drove home. Patrick and I had Peter, Phil, and Drew over for dinner. Patrick made jambalaya, salad, cornbread, Southern iced tea.