Monday, June 30, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. 1-on-1 with Susie: we talked about USC and Harvard multimedia, Susie okayed the Flickr project announcement, we reviewed status on the DAL project—Eric D and I will continue reviewing possible partnerships, reviewed Partners in D tasks and Hane Chow Inc. Twitter account tweaking. Edited homepage code so that we can quickly and easily put our emergency-only Twitter feed on the home page. Wrote a procedure document and shared it with Eric D and Susie. Chatted briefly with Scott who recommended a northwest African restaurant called Bissap Baobab as a great place for dinner. Lucia is back from a week's vacation and has recently acquired a 2-month-old kitten that is black on the sides and white down the middle front. She has named it Oreo. Updated Adobe Reader for OS X to 8.1.2. I think this update failed with some error last time I tried to install it but it worked this time. Made live the notice of our Flickr project and sent e-mail notices as well. This is the first that students officially heard about the project. I also customized an announcement message for our recent grads. Lunch: dos enchiladas from Carmelina's. Met with Kurt G, Cesar G, and Quinn H to discuss next steps in our transition to using DLS support. The meeting went well; I always enjoy talking to these guys. Mouse ordering followup for Eric: his 2nd mouse has been hanging out in Fresno according to DHL. Discovered on our IT mailing list a long discussion thread about Windows workstations and servers crashing since Thursday last week. This was the same stuff as the weird problems I encountered on Friday, so I spent pretty much the entire afternoon reviewing the messages in the thread, investigating the data on our server, and compiling my own report to post to the mailing list which I finished just before 6. Home. Took photos of the front of the house. When I got home the garage was really hot and humid. I told Patrick that something was wrong but he didn't notice anything wrong. When I inspected the laundry room, I found that the tube leading from the dryer to the outside had come off. Patrick repaired it later. I repaired the sliding glass door to the tub in our bathroom—the wheel attachment had come loose. Organized my sewing notions into new plastic ArtBin boxes that I just got in the mail from Jo-Ann. Processed and uploaded photos. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon chicken, peas, potatoes au gratin. Began organizing Flickr sets into more collections. I forgot to mention that on Saturday or Sunday I chatted with my mom on the phone. She wanted me to walk her through setting up an email account with Yahoo! but after 20 minutes I asked her to wait until dad got home so that he could help her with it. She seemed okay with that. Installed Apple Software Updates for OS 10.5.4. Folded laundry that Patrick had washed and dried earlier. Installed Brother printer drivers update for OS X. Stretches. Weight training: superslow shrug, superslow lateral raise, rear raise, wrist curl. Stretches. Late meal: lowfat blueberry yogurt, chunky soup, hot nonfat milk.