Thursday, March 1, 2012
For the first time I used the Zippo handwarmer that Chris and Nate got me for my birthday. The instructions said to use 2 fill cups but it overflowed before even the first cup was finished. I still tried filling it with 2 fill cups but ended up wasting a fair amount of fuel because it repeatedly overflowed. I let it sit for a few minutes then lit it over the stove because the woman at Zippo support I had on the phone a few weeks ago told me that it could take up to 30 seconds to ignite. Once lit, it only got mildly warm. After I got to work, I removed the catalytic burner unit with a potholder and the device successfully cooled after some time. The instructions say "once ignited there is no way to stop the heating action" but the woman at Zippo support told me you can carefully remove the catalytic burner unit, and it will cool. Will continue using it to get more experience with it. Rode Muni to work. Web team technical conference call with Chapter Three. Helped student MR with a question about listservs. Followup with Daliah about supp app closure. Calendar management. Web updates for Cindy: pharm sci schedule, reqs, and courses. Fast lunch from Subway: veggie delight sandwich. Kidney Project meeting with Shuvo R, Sara G, Susie, and Eric. Archived website data to portable hard drives. Restored an old, unused layout for strategic plan goals summary for Susie for review. UCSF lime shuttle to Mission Center Building. UCSF Drupal Users Group: Michael W gave a high-level overview of our web overhaul project. Patrick picked me up at MCB. We joined PDDR at Carlo Marchiori's art show opening reception at Fort Mason Center (where I met Tony) followed by dinner at Tia Margarita with Drew, Romy, Phil, and Patrick. (Danny went to class.) Home.