Saturday, May 5, 2007
Woke up early. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Helped out with our graduation ceremony at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium. One of my responsibilities at the ceremony was to hand out programs as people entered. When we open the gates there's such a rush that I hand out a hundred or two programs within about 60 seconds. Somehow after the initial crowd surged through I looked down at the programs I had left in my hands and I saw blotchy dark spots all over them—oh no! I looked closer, and it apppeared to be blood! How did someone get blood all over my programs, and did anyone get a program that had blood on it?! And then I realized—it was my blood! I had somehow gotten a paper cut on my thumb while handing out programs and simply didn't feel it. It was only about 5 millimeters long but somewhat deep even though it didn't seem to hurt very much at all. I threw out the one program on top that had all the blood and went to the restroom to clean up. A few minutes with a paper towel and direct pressure stopped most of the bleeding. After that I changed the towel again and Scott helped me wrap masking tape around it to create a makeshift bandage. The ceremony went without any problems that I could see. Conan MacDougall won the teaching award, and JoAl Mayor won the Bowl of Hygeia. Deke Shelton and Carolynn Woo were the speakers from the Class of 2007. Afterwards I met Patrick at Danny's spa, and we hung out a few minutes with Danny, Phil, and Quyen on Danny's 4th day of business. Phil's mom Kim and his sister (I didn't remember her name) were in town and we met them for the first time. Patrick and I got a small meal at The Crepe Place on Polk. Back to the spa. Then Patrick and I went shopping at Macy's then at a greeting card store. Drove home. Ordered pizza delivery. Burned photos to CD for Mom Ryan. More new laptop setup for Tina: installed Flip4Mac, Firefox, Thunderbird, Real Player, VLC, Adobe Reader. Organized the Applications folder. Turned on FileVault. Installed Burn-OSX. Installed AbiWord 2.4.5 and NeoOffice 2.1 Patch 3 on my PowerPC Mac Mini.