Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Staff meeting. I received a spot award for alumni e-mail web work—$25 to spend at Macy's. Lunch: dos tacos meals with Joel at L'Avenida. CD-ROM building. Filed for reimbursement of funds (Flickr). Helped Julia with pasting e-mail addresses from a new message to a new distribution list. Reinstalled Real Player for Julia. Ran diagnostics on Cindy's Outlook. ImageBuilder work: burned cds of clean with os patches. Ordered supplies from Cyberguys. Home. Dinner at home by myself. Patrick is spending the evening with Aaron, the partner of our friend Jamie who passed away on Sunday. We can only guess right now as to the cause of death—we suspect problems with mixed medications for Jamie's back problems and other health problems. Archived answering machine messages. Edited Lodestar works. Installed Xubuntu 6.06 on Patrick's old laptop. The hardest part was getting the bios to start from cdrom instead of the hard drive—it's been a while since I've had to use the bios that's in his old IBM laptop. It's only 600 MHz and has only 192 MB of RAM, but at first glance it appears to feel a whole lot faster than Windows 2000 (which was the operating system previously on the computer). I clicked on a globe icon and to my surprise, Firefox 1.5.0.3 (a very current version) appeared. Immediately, I notice keyboard accessibility is very, very good if not perfect (hard to tell on occasion when I'm using old hardware that might be intermittently broken). Installed it to the hard disk, completely wiping the drive. No time tonight to play with it, though. Later. Not counting the bios woes, installation took about an hour. Weight training: plank.