Saturday, March 8, 2008
Granola and sliced banana for breakfast. Plugged in my old PC so that I could identify and catalog the components for later sale and erase the hard drive with Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.7. How unusual to hear the whine of the old powerhungry PC's fan—"what's that annoying noise?!" Still loving the new iMac. Just for reference, it takes about 3.5 hours to erase a 120 GB Maxtor hard drive with an Athlon XP 2500+ (166 MHz). Patrick worked on some musicmaking this morning. Prepared stuff to sell. Photo work: downloaded from camera, edited, and uploaded to Flickr. I notice for the first time today that Flickr is occasionally showing ads on photo pages. They don't bother me that much so far. AOL Instant Messenger is not letting me log in as of 12:50 PM via either iChat or Adium. I think it the service is broken. Oh, AOL/AIM is working again. Patrick made a new drink today: Tejava tea with a scoop of mango sorbet—I call it mangjava. Serve it in a highball. Patrick has been working on the Tobias story lately—the first new writing he has done in a long time. Erased the second PC's hard drives. Lunch at home with Patrick: turkey sandwiches, french fries. Cut my hair, showered. Shopping with Patrick at Big 5 Sporting Goods and Stonestown Galleria. Dinner at home with Patrick: indian food delivery from Golden Gate Indian Cuisine (4038 Judah St, San Francisco). Worked on Danny's website.