Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Back at work after vacation. Fire drill. Staff meeting. Cindy announced my service award and brought fresh fruit and bagels and cream cheese to celebrate. Lucia received a spot award from Ellie Vogt for adeptly handling some scheduling daymare. Linkchecking. Began wading through e-mail. Showed Cindy how to use folders in OWA. Noticed that an old acquaintance Bryan Cochran is speaking at a UCSF/VA event next week. Reminded graduating seniors about accounts closures after graduation. Helped Scott tshoot wireless access point low signal problems at home. Sent a letter of intro to Marisol at the LAOC program. Made live final spring schedules for Lucia. Minor web updates for Scott. Helped student GR with purchasing a new computer. Printer troubleshooting for Cindy. Made live 2007-2008 calendars for Cindy. Today I received the 2 GB PQI Intelligent Stick that I ordered for work use. I don't know that it's officially called "istick" but that's what I'm calling it. It is packed in blister packaging, which I detest, but this one was not too hard to cut open. The package included a wallet-sized plastic case which holds 2 isticks. I immediately put this plastic carrying case in my desk drawer because I'll probably never use it—the whole point of this USB drive is that it's small. It took only a few minutes to transfer all the data on my old USB drive to the computer then again from the computer to the new istick. The istick included software which I think secures data with encryption, but I ignored it—I'm not carrying any unencrypted confidential data. The istick fits neatly in my wallet, and now I have one less bulky item to carry in my pocket. So far I'm a very happy customer. Dinner at home with Patrick: turkey burger, wedge fries, corn off the cob. Beat back the inbox. Sent Bryan C an e-mail. Caught up some on journaling. Weight training: push up. Late snack: Chris's leftover half quesadilla. Resolved the Canon Powershot A610 E18 error message by squeezing the lens barrel slightly.