Thursday, August 3, 2006
Usual oatmeal breakfast with some of Joel's granola sprinkled in. Tweaked the supp app workshop page for James. Approved the estimate for our cdrom duplication order. Updated the career fair registration form for Joel. Hand-delivered the cdrom master to DMM. Followed up with Garrett, Apple, and Dell regarding our computer offers going live—almost ready. Uploaded and edited photos from yesterday's baseball game taken with the new office camera—a Canon PowerShot A620 with wide angle lens. Joel sent me and Ena photos of a disgusting kitty litter cake. You use a (new) kitty litter pan and create a cake with a crumble topping which looks like kitty litter. And then you add tootsie rolls to it to make it more realistic. If you search Google, I'm sure you can find some examples. He was serious about making it, but I thought it was a crappy idea. In the discussion of the kitty litter cake, we explained to Ena the various definitions of the word "scat." Met with Susie—we had a lot to talk about since I hadn't met with her in a long time. Helped Joel create his first document in InDesign. He had been a devoted PageMaker user and only a problem with copy-pasting text from Microsoft Word into PageMaker convinced him to migrate. (The problem was that his RTF filter needed to be reinstalled, but he just wanted something that would work and I happened to also have InDesign installed on his computer.) He is getting the hang of it readily enough, as I had expected. Helped James troubleshoot a problem with his computer. Turns out his network card has failed, so I placed an order for a USB ethernet adapter to be overnighted. Lunch: Subway sandwich. Dinner at home by myself: a sandwich. Weight training: hammer curl, squat, pec fly, front raise, bent over lateral raise. Snack: yogurt. Late meal: Healthy Choice frozen dinner.