Thursday, April 26, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Image correction and editing for Chris. Followup on various issues. Chatted briefly with Melissa H. Reopened preview sessions for Joel. Lunch: salmon burger and fries. A fire alarm went off while I was eating. No drill was scheduled, so we all exited the building as though it was real. There was no fire, so within minutes we were returning to work. OS X meeting. I learned about virtualbox—yet another virtual machine choice for OS X, but this one is free and open source. Helped student PA with a question about listservs. Followup with various issues. Took the University's online ethics review—it took a lot less time than I thought. Danny asked me to stop in at Refresh for an emergency—he had to give someone a mani-pedi today. On the way there, while waiting for the N-Judah, three 2-car N-Judah trains came in a row. I thought this kind of craziness never happened for real except at the ballpark, but it does! Crazy Muni! I got a tall, skinny, almond latte at Starbucks. The mani-pedi that Danny gave me was my first one ever, and I was (technically) his first customer. I realized later I forgot to tip him—oops! The mani-pedi treatment was very relaxing and peaceful, and I liked it very much. The salon is now expected to open more officially in May. Late dinner at Baghdad Cafe with Danny, Phil, and Drew. I had southern fried chicken with veggies and biscuit. Danny had herb roasted chicken with corn and biscuit. Phil had a pita sandwich with (salad?). Drew had a meatloaf sandwich with cole slaw. Tonight was Dining Out for Life. Service tonight was awful. Phil noticed they had a help wanted sign in the window, but even still our server was inattentive, disappeared for long periods of time, and did not perform to our satisfaction. Our food took a long time to arrive even though the restaurant was less than half full. It's usually not this bad at Baghdad.