Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Valentine's day. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Joel gave everyone in the office an Anne Taintor card (mine was "I feel a sin coming on" on the outside and "Wishing you a naughty Valentine's Day!" on the inside) and a sticker-decorated bag of candy. Joel's little gifts are one of the best things about working in our office. The class of 2008 gave everyone a single rose with thorns removed from the stem. Lips and heart cookies magically appeared in the grazing area of our back room. (Thanks, Cindy!) We've been deciding to reorganize some of our cabinets, and today I moved computer hardware and supplies from one drawer to a different drawer, which included some vacuuming. Minor updates to the maps page which had been on my list of things to do for months. XHTML email for Cindy. Survey building for Cindy and Dave (RSVP). Set up PharmAdMIT and ASSIST for Steaven, who used James's office for the first time today while James was out at Dentistry. Troubleshot problems pasting images into new Outlook 2003 messages for Joel. He gets a white-X-on-red-background icon along with the outline of an image placeholder when he tries. It used to work in the past. Problem does not happen for me, but I have Office 2007 installed so it's not the same test. I tried a number of things, but still no resolution. Lunch from Carmelina's: dos pollo enchiladas. Updated new news for current students—ePocrates software is not yet compatible with Windows Vista. Worked on website services ideas. Manual PharmAdMIT backups. Home. Dinner at home with Patrick: pork chops, green beans, grilled purple potatoes with red onions and yellow bell peppers—I call these potatoes "new southwest" potatoes because the colors make me think of the American southwest and "new" because not everything labeled southwest needs to have corn or salsa in it. And it's a better name than "diversity potatoes" or "multicultural potatoes" which were other names up with which we came. After dinner, Patrick and I did a brainstorming session on his music in planning for his MySpace redesign. I got him to explain the meanings behind each of the songs, name adjectives which described the moods he wanted for the design, name visual elements that we could use, and think about color schemes that he wanted. He already picked out some fonts from the Adobe typeface library; the ones he picked that came with Windows and Office weren't working for me. After that, we opened the sofa sleeper and watched about the first half of Time Bandits on DVD. I did not think this film was very funny. We both got tired after a bit and I bookmarked our stopping point and shut it off. We slept in the living room to see if we can identify that something in our bedroom causes Patrick's allergies or my recently new mild asthma.