Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Usual oatmeal breakfast. Researched how to build a hybrid cdrom. We cannot do hybrid this time around—we have too many PDF files with long filenames that won't work because of truncation during burning. Coordinated with Susie and Laura S regarding cdrom opening instructions to be printed on the cdrom. Converted PDFs to JPG and inserted front cover and back cover images into the Self Study. Posted updated P2 and electives schedules for Lucia. Unhooked the 2-year-old Mac Mini on my desk to give to Eric for the DAM project. DAM server purchases shopping. Reviewed ECAP brochure materials from Cindy. Lunch at desk by myself: takeout from Palio Paninoteca: couscous and shrimp salad, half of a smoked salmon sandwich. Authorized our staff for business hours access to Parnassus in WeID. Prepared a Kensington lock for repair or replacement. The vinyl (?) shielding of one of our slim microsaver locks had worked loose from where it attaches to the lock, and I discovered this problem a few weeks ago because one of the wires in the cable had pricked my finger. (It was not a severe injury.) Called Kensington technical support, which I am guessing has been outsourced to India. The technician took my shipping address and e-mail address and ordered a replacement to be sent to me at no charge. Woo! Org chart update for Susie. Self study process management with Barbara. Updated special footer links so that Eric sees them. Sysadmin work for most office computers: RealPlayer patching, Acrobat patching, disk cleanup, defrag. Chatted with Patrick online. Home. Dinner at home by myself: salt-n-pepper pork chops with whole mushrooms; roasted fingerling potatoes with rosemary; sage, celery, and onion stuffing. Completed my absentee ballot for voting. Watched Heroes 206 on the web. Read season 1 Heroes graphic novels 1 through 6 on Wikipedia.