October 2014
Summary: Patrick and Sam travel in Italy, Castro Street Fair with quantum13, switched from Straight Talk to Consumer Cellular (SIM on iPhone 3GS), Rooftop BBQ & Air Show at Chez TEmery, Semi-Secret Birthday Funday at Royce's, Viansa member party, Tina visits
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Wed Oct 1, 2014
Breakfast at home: one sliced apple. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Responded to a student with a question about Outlook. Dean's Office photo shoot with Elisabeth F. Content work in Drupal. Listserv management. Asana ticket followup. Notified site owners of scheduled web hosting maintenance. Listserv maintenance. Content and styling work all day in Drupal. Comm team meeting. Filed pcard paperwork. Chatted with James on the UCSF shuttle ride from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. We talked about Smart Cars and cellular providers. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Baan Thai.
Thu Oct 2, 2014
Breakfast at home: Thoroughbread almond croissant. Patrick leaves today with Sam for a trip to Italy. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Calendar management. Chatted with Eric about a fish we have been trying to catch: a problem in which a page request is redirected to the home page whereas the second same request works. Content work, styling work, and asana task followup all day in Drupal. Sent reminders about new website url reviews that are still pending. Lunch at A.G. Ferrari: hot verdure sandwich (peperonata, artichoke hearts, smoked mozzarella on focaccia), water. Afterwards I had a blue bottle coffee Bar Gelato—delicious. About $12. Met with David to build pages for BTS research: therapeutic bioengineering. Rode UberX to BMW SF. Picked up the car, which Patrick had dropped off for service a few days ago. Bought gas, drove home. Used Waze for the first time but didn't follow its suggestions, sometimes by accident (turned too soon), sometimes because it didn't seem like it was suggesting good routes. Early dinner: leftover thai food. Did some testing of the new Black and Decker Flex Vac (BDH2020FLFH). I haven't used a cordless vacuum in a really long time, so it was liberating to use the Flex Vac. I found myself reaching into places for which I would otherwise have had less energy to do so pulling a larger vacuum behind me. It's pretty loud, and it has a high-pitched whine which I found somewhat annoying. The noise changes distinctly when you hold it different ways. I very nearly felt I needed earplugs when using it. The floor attachment works, just not so well as a full vacuum. It does a great job on our marble and linoleum-tiled floors, not as well on our wool-cotton rug. The crevice tool and 2-in-1 nozzle accessory both work as expected. I did not use the pet hair tool. (No pets.) The vacuum is heavier than I had hoped, remembering the light weight of the original DustBuster, but it's clearly more powerful and versatile than a DustBuster. The wrap-around tube and nozzle is a bit awkward to reattach. It just takes a little practice to understand how it works. The instruction booklet is simply awful—a great example of poor communications. Hardly anyone reads two pages of safety warnings in small type, diagrams are far too small, some of the instructions don't work (e.g., removing and refitting the handle), and the instructions aren't written with the customer in mind (e.g., the instructions should first say how to charge the device because one wants to use it right away but it can't be used until it has charged for four hours). Archived documents. Late meal: more thai leftovers, water.
Fri Oct 3, 2014
Breakfast at home: oatmeal with fresh, diced sweetango apple; pumpkin pie spice; unsweetened soy milk. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Spent most of the day rewriting the computer services / technology resources section of the PharmD site. Lunch from The View Cafe: tofu with vegetables over brown rice, ate at my desk. 1-on-1 content work with Susie: bts research landing images. Followup with Pam E about her staged website review. Snack: potato chips, white cheddar popcorn. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni to 9th and Judah. Missed the 66 bus by one minute. Dinner at New Sandy Cafe: bun bo xao with imperial roll, water: about $12 after tip. Rode Muni home. Watched Primer (2004) on Hulu Plus on my iPad in bed. I thought this film was of unusually good quality for such a low budget.
Sat Oct 4, 2014
Breakfast at home: Bicycle decaf coffee via Bialetti, oatmeal with fresh, diced sweetango apple; pumpkin pie spice; unsweetened soy milk. Home improvement: painting, stocked the car with new safety equipment, laundry, began unpacking the new Miele Capri vacuum. Midafternoon meal: leftover wonton soup, one mini mint-chip ice cream sandwich. Early dinner: leftover thai and chinese food. Tried to activate my Consumer Cellular SIM but they told me it would take 24 hours and I need my phone tomorrow, so I told them I would activate it later. Snack: baked sweet potato with butter, salt, and nutmeg. Unpacked the Miele and read most of its user manual, tried it out. It's very nice. And I realized I now need a wall organizer of some kind because it doesn't store all the parts of the vacuum as tidily as the Hoover upright it's replacing. I then wondered if I should have purchased a Miele upright, and then investigated this. The uprights cost a little more (e.g., $450 for a Twist instead of $400 for the Capri), and they weigh significantly more (26.8 pounds for the Twist, 18.2 pounds total for the Capri). However, I decided the canister was better for us because I was not confident from the photos of the Twist that it would be able to reach under a set of Ikea Tunhem cabinets through an opening 12.2 cm tall and reach to the back 40 cm deep. We have three of these on a marble floor, and
Sun Oct 5, 2014
Slept in. Breakfast at home: salad with broccoli and blue cheese dressing. Rode Muni to the Castro, Castro Street Fair, ate vietnamese food from one of the food booths, a stranger complimented me on my legs and we chatted for a few minutes, encountered Ted D, quantum13 met me there, my first time at reveille coffee (the coffee tasted bad to me; I'll never get coffee there again), we got chocolate-dipped chocolate soft serve cones at super duper, quantum13 tried to buy an iPhone 6 at radio shack but it didn't work out, quantum13's first time on the f market, we rode downtown, he was looking for a picnic basket, ross, target, container store, cole fox hardware, kimpton, walnut crest chardonnay, f market, dinner at eureka: jambalaya for quantum13, fried chicken with collard greens and beans for me. somewhere along the way we stopped at badlands briefly and visited the lgbt museum and i encountered kevin l-b. Rode UberX home.
Mon Oct 6, 2014
Breakfast at home: salad with miso ginger dressing. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Followup with Pam E about her lab site. Asana ticket followup. Helped student GJK with a question about webmail. Activated my Consumer Cellular SIM by telephone with a human. When my service with Straight Talk stops working, that's my clue to swap SIMs and then Consumer Cellular should start working. Lunch meeting for emergency preparedness: food from Pasta Pomodoro: pollo sano (whole grain fusilli sautéed with sliced grilled chicken, fresh zucchini, tomato sauce and fresh basil), foccacia with dipping sauce, water from my Contigo water bottle. We restocked our emergency backpacks. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Computer maintenance and helping OSACA staff configure the new shared office calendar. Content and styling work in Drupal. Met with a student about webmail and Box. Worked late. Late dinner at Pomelo: manila (pancit bihon - filipino style stir fried rice noodles tossed with sauteed prawns, chicken, chinese sausage and vegetables, with scallion and lemon) with syrah. Rode UberX home.
Tue Oct 7, 2014
Breakfast at home: egg and cheese on whole wheat english muffin. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. 1-on-1 with Susie. Comm team meeting. Lunch at A.G. Ferrari: meatball sandwich. Encountered Susie, we ate together. She left for Walgreens, I bought boneless, skinless chicken breast at Bryan's. Reviewed photos from our Elisabeth F photo shoot. Check-in with Michael K about his lab site. Kiosk followup with Erin M. Infoday web updates for Leslie. Listserv management. Encryption policy followup. SOP IT wiki work: documented calendar procedures. Listserv management. Followup with request a speaker form for Joel. Followup with Joel about new applicant statistics. More encryption policy followup with Kirk H. Responded to a request from Vicky about USB drives. New site review followup with Cindy. More encryption policy followup. Alerted sysadmins and certain managers in the School about Teresa R's notice about updating SSL certificates which will require action on our part. More encryption policy followup. Began edits for PharmD residencies. Followup with John M about a ticket I filed with ITFS. Worked late. Chatted with James J about iPhone 6 Plus cases and funny Amazon reviews. Rode UberX home. Dinner at home: I prepared cashew chicken and ate it with leftover steamed rice. Chatted on Facebook with Markus. The switch from Straight Talk to Consumer Cellular still did not yet occur, so I spent about 20 minutes on the phone with Consumer Cellular and successfully resolved the problem. Detached my old SIM and removed my credit card info in my web account with Straight Talk.
Wed Oct 8, 2014
Breakfast: granola with sliced banana and unsweetened soy milk, 9 ounces of carrot juice. Rode Muni to work. Along the way I realized that I neglected to set the new APN for Consumer Cellular on my phone, so when I tried to check the arrival time for my connecting bus I was unable to. I alighted and waited at the bus stop for a long time and no 6 or 43 came. After perhaps 12 minutes I gave up and walked. Missed the shuttle I would have caught if Muni had worked. When I got to Kalmanovitz Library I used wifi to visit unlockit and set the APN. It worked quickly and perfectly after I removed the existing APN. I think now that Straight Talk probably would not have stopped working as the Consumer Cellular people told me it would. Got to work over an hour after I left home. Asana task followup. Email followup. Listserv management. Poster work in InDesign for Cindy. Content review with Susie. Lunch: leftover cashew chicken and ate it with half of a large order of brown rice from The View Cafe. Trained Kevin on the microsites build process. Content review with Susie. Content work in Drupal. Rode UberX to the Castro. Massage with Andrew at M Spa. Dinner at Hi Tops: bacon beef burger with salad, mirror pond deschutes, water. After I paid for my order at the counter, I was handed a bingo card. Turns out it was bottoms up bingo night. You get one card for each drink you purchase. I played three rounds but did not win and gave my card to others nearby before I left. Rode Muni home. Dessert: mini ice cream sandwich. Caught up on journaling.
Thu Oct 9, 2014
Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Breakfast from The View Cafe: egg and cheese on english muffin. Calendar management. Began orgchart builds, started with BTS. Asana task followup. More updates for Residencies for Monica. Calendar management. Lunch: leftover cashew chicken over brown rice. Followup with Cindy about new site page review. Chatted with student SA about problems encountered after installing UCSF PGP rendering the laptop unusable, followup with admins. Updated the white coat ceremony page to include the live stream link. Followup with Alexia and others about recent update requests for the A-Z list. Prepped and submitted a poster order for Cindy to DM. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Dropped off the camera at the OSACA. Rode Muni home. Removed some junk from the garage while taking the trash out. Dinner at home: lentil soup from a can. Dessert: two TJ's dark chocolate mint creams. Watched The Lone Ranger (2013) on Netflix DVD. Cocktail: midori margarita.
Fri Oct 10, 2014
Breakfast: egg and cheese on whole wheat english muffin, apple slices. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Various followup with work in progress. Lunch from Panda Express: Panda Bowl to go: fried rice, honey sesame chicken, veggie spring rolls. Posted updated schedules for Lucia. Helped with the white coat ceremony. Rode Muni home. Ate my fortune cookie from lunch. My fortune: Be willing to admit that you may be wrong. You're only human. Dinner at home: italian brown rice cappellini with leftover marinara sauce, water. Chatted on the phone with Akemi and my sister. Watched Breakin' (1984) on Netflix DVD. Continued editing Seattle photos.
Sat Oct 11, 2014
Threw out more junk from the garage. Laundry. Walked to the mailbox to mail a Netflix disc. Baked Banana Muffins II (ABI_GODFREY) from Allrecipes. Late breakfast: egg and cheese on whole wheat english muffin. Rode Muni to Rooftop BBQ & Air Show at Chez TEmery. My favorite part: the ribs that Ted prepared. Rode Muni home.
Sun Oct 12, 2014
Breakfast: two hash browns, one egg, three small slices of prarie bread, water. Home improvement: set up the land line telephone after years of not having one, installed an organizer for vacuuming tools, reinstalled the organizer for plastic bags, tightened cabinet door hinges, moved the iron wall organizer from one room to another, vacuumed, stocked the car with emergency supplies. Tried contacting customer support for Consumer Cellular from the land line, waited 15 minutes before the battery ran out on the cordless phone and the call disconnected, gave up for now. More home improvement: repaired a wooden bench with wood glue. Walked to Sushi Raw for dinner: house special pork ramen: $9.78 before a $2 tip. Safeway for groceries. Stopped at Marco Polo on the way home for waffle cone of arcobaleno (vanilla, chocolate, almond, pistachio): under $5. Learned at home via wikipedia that arcobaleno means rainbow in Italian.
Mon Oct 13, 2014
Breakfast at home: two apples. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. My office smelled strongly of paint and paint thinner, so I worked in the space next to Rick instead. Reported the problem to FM. Reported a hardware problem for Don K to ITFS. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Focused today on polishing the job postings form in Drupal for PharmD. Helped Vicky and Leslie move supplies to the storage closet. Asana ticket followup all day. Lunch from Carmelina's: two veggie soft tacos: $4.89. Met with Kirk H and Chandler M about encryption. Helped Lucia configure Outlook 2010 and Webmail to see the shared office calendar. Granted Robin A access to a file she needed. Calendar management. Rode Muni home, stopping at Roxie Market for a six-pack of Dr. Pepper ($5.73) which I am guessing is not a very good price. Late dinner at home: large salad with butter leaf lettuce, arugula, sliced celery, alba clamshell mushrooms, Newman's Own ranch dressing. Changed my Dropbox password and set up two-step verification for home and work accounts. Late meal: leftover rice pasta with garlic basil marinara sauce from a jar.
Tue Oct 14, 2014
Breakfast from The View Cafe: egg and cheese on english muffin. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Followup with Cindy about whole disk encryption for students. Followup with Don K about a problem with a computer keyboard. Org chart builds, sent Cindy hers for review. Calendar management. Asana task followup. Added a new UCSF brand identity avatar graphic to The Archive for Susie. Inserted orgcharts into our pages on the preview sites. Followup with lab site work in latency. Sent an image usage request to Susie. Accidentally skipped lunch today. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home: large arugula salad with diced granny smith apple and walnut pieces, blue cheese dressing, hot water.
Wed Oct 15, 2014
Breakfast at home: half-slice of sharp cheddar and egg whites on whole wheat english muffin, water, one sliced apple. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. PharmD content work in Drupal. Sprint standup. More PharmD content work in Drupal. A bunch of Asana task followup all day. Lunch at desk: veggie california sandwich from The View Cafe. Content review meeting and coffee break with Susie. Partway through I called the rest of the team into my office to demonstrate how to identify and resolve what we call the 8203 character entity problem. In our Drupal system we sometimes encounter a problem in which there is vertical whitespace preceding or following an image that we are unable to remove. Upon using browser tools to inspect the image, a character entity of ​ can be found just before or after the image. This character entity is a zero-width space, so it is not visible either in wysiwyg or in view source mode. However, it is still a character, so to find it, edit the page, view source, put your cursor just before or after the image, then use the arrow keys to move the cursor back and/or forth over either the start or end of the image code. When your cursor stays in the same location for two presses of the arrow key in the same direction, you have found the hidden character entity. This will likely occur at the boundary of the image code—where the image starts or ends. In our case, it occurs adjacent to double square brackets (either left or right). Delete the mysteriously invisible character, save the page, and the unwanted whitespace should be gone. It's an uncanny experience, and to me it is mystical and paranormal. We don't yet know how/why the problem occurs, and until I had stumbled across this solution through trial, error, and I guess luck, we didn't know how to resolve it. Eric suspects it has something to do with CKeditor and specified a few more details which I now don't recall. Submitted a ticket to ITS for Lucia's new monitors installation. PharmD content work in Drupal and followup. Forgot to leave work early, rode Lyft home due to UberX price surge when Ed called. Met landlord Ed at home. He showed me emergency info stuff: how to turn off water, gas, and electricity. Over the past few weeks I have been taking more steps toward being fully prepared for a disaster like a major earthquake. Dinner at home: two small courses about an hour apart of leftover rice pasta with garlic basil sauce from a jar. Watched various videos on YouTube as well as part of Darrin's Dance Grooves on Netflix DVD. Made edits to my journal code so that it would display ​ properly.
Thu Oct 16, 2014
Breakfast at home: half-slice of sharp cheddar and egg whites on whole wheat english muffin, water. Responded to UCSF WarnMe tests. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. I had two meetings scheduled today, but both ended up being canceled. Helped Lucia with the problem of listserv rejecting messages with attachments larger than 4 MB. Calendar management. Responded to UCSF WarnMe tests. Asana ticket followup. PharmD content work. Followup with Cindy on her content reviews. Calendar management. Helped a student with a problem following an email address change; the student is unable to access files previously uploaded to UCSF Box because it forces her to use her new email address for authentication and creates a new, empty account. Met with Susan H to discuss a timeline illustration that Susie wants for the main site history section. Lunch at Beautifull!: onigiri: sesame chicken, ginger pork, tea smoked salmon. I also bought a chocolate chip cookie, but since the one she retrieved was stuck to another cookie and unseparatable, she gave me the second one for free—nice! About $12 after a small tip. Gross Lab content work, sent them a Word document for review. Reported a problem reported by Lisa C about one profile page in our forthcoming new site. Followup with Alexia about A-Z list listings. Watched a new, draft interview video of Esteban B. Sent OSACA and OEIS pages about them for review. More content review followup with Cindy. Followup with Denetra about buying encrypted flash drives. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home: I made garlic cashew chicken with white steamed rice, hot water. Dessert: the second chocolate chip cookie, heated.
Fri Oct 17, 2014
Breakfast: one sliced apple. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Brand identity meeting with light breakfast: I had some fresh, cut fruit and coffee with milk. Out of office planning. We also chatted about magazine-style display of PDF on the web, I sent her a link to Issuu. Content review with Susie: pharmchem. Lunch: leftover garlic cashew chicken. Prepared OSACA and OEIS for our implementation of requiring encrypted usb drives for all work activity. Content work in Drupal: PharmD, Burchard Lab. Eric, Kevin, and I together resolved a somewhat complicated styling problem with Tanja K's profile page. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home: leftover garlic cashew chicken. Watched in bed on my iPad Y Tu Mama Tambien on Netflix instant watch followed by short clips and an episode of The Simpsons on Hulu Plus.
Sat Oct 18, 2014
Breakfast at home: two hash browns, egg-white omelette with alba clamshell mushrooms and half a slice of thick tillamook sharp cheddar, three slices of Rudi's spelt ancient grain toast, bicycle coffee via bialetti, 8 ounces of orange juice, hot water. Read voter information for the forthcoming election. Rinsed two garbage bins and one compost bin because something was getting stinkier than normal. Drove to Los Altos Hills for a Semi-Secret Birthday Funday at Royce's. Met some new people: Garrett, Chris, David C, Kyle, Brandon, Ignacio, Tim, Jim and three dogs: one of which was named Lily. Drove home. Late meal: leftover garlic cashew chicken.
Sun Oct 19, 2014
Rode UberX to Shotwell Street. Wine tasting and wine club pickup in Sonoma with Danny, Romy, Drew, Phil, Quyen, Dave: Viansa, Cline, Jacuzzi. On the way we encountered much traffic due to a Nike running event. We met Richard and Rick at Viansa. We met and shared our table with Haydee. Back to San Francisco and Shotwell Street. Rested. Danny and Romy prepared a large and delicious dinner with a variety of dishes. Surge pricing with UberX, so I took Lyft home instead.
Mon Oct 20, 2014
Breakfast at home: egg and cheddar on english muffin. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Job postings testing followup. Sprint standup canceled. 1-on-1 with Cindy. Stopped in to OEIS to say hello. Chatted with others in the OSACA about various topics. Uploaded White Coat Ceremony photos taken by Rick to Flickr then sent him and Cindy the link. Met with Don K to set up his access to the shared OSACA calendar. Training for Lucia: how to update schedules. Met with Rodney about listservs. Content work in Drupal. Late lunch at Moffitt Cafeteria: grass-fed cheeseburger with fixins including grilled mushrooms, side of regular fries, water from my Contigo water bottle. Content work in Drupal. Rode Muni home. Put junk at the curb for pickup tomorrow morning. Dinner at home: leftovers from last night. Continued editing Seattle and Vancouver BC trip photos.
Tue Oct 21, 2014
Breakfast at home: egg and cheddar on english muffin, Philz ether coffee, dark-chocolate-dipped almond biscotti. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Calendar management. Task management in asana. Mission continuity plan followup with Cindy. Office 2013 installation followup with some OSACA staff members. A-Z List request followup with Alexia. Content work in Drupal: PharmD. Late lunch at the JCC: krab louie on brioche, potato chips, water from my Contigo water bottle. Encountered error "Script timeout passed, if you want to finish import, please resubmit same file and import will resume." while attempting to import a database using PHPMyAdmin into a local Drupal site, could not resolve this, reported it to Eric and Kevin. Began work to build a new student leadership group headshots cheat sheet for Cindy. Content work in Drupal for Cindy: new academic calendar. Calendar management. Content work in Drupal: PharmD. Orgchart work. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Patrick had returned from a trip to Italy. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from King of Thai Noodle: yellow curry chicken, crispy garden rolls, pad bee ew, white rice, brown rice, thai iced teas.
Wed Oct 22, 2014
Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Sprint standup canceled. I waited for someone to call me for the OSACA staff meeting but no one did. Tested sending long urls through a listserv. Asana task followup. Url review followup for Cindy. Content review and content inventory work: PharmD. Team lunch at Garibaldi's with Susan H, Susie, Paula, Kevin, Eric, and David. Appetizers: fried brussels sprouts, risotto croquettes, papas bravas quebradas, melone pazzo. I had a pint of Stone Saison, half of a turkey club sandwich, and a bowl of roast squash soup. It was a mixture of pre-celebrations: Halloween, my forthcoming leave, and the forthcoming websites launch—a culmination of six or maybe seven years of work. Content review and content inventory work: PharmD. Microsite build process with Kevin: The Kidney Project. Rode UberX to the Castro. Massage with Troy at M Spa started late, deep tissue massage was excellent, as with all the masseurs I have visited here. Dinner at Woodhouse Fish Co. with Danny, Romy, Drew, Phil. Appetizers: calamari, crab cocktail. Cioppino for Phil, crab cakes for Drew, fish tacos for me, salad for Danny, and I think Romy had the petrale sole special. Food and service were excellent. No dessert was offered—a disappointment. At the end of our meal Paul M happened to walk by then stopped in to chat briefly.
Thu Oct 23, 2014
Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Upon arrival, a fire truck was parked in front and everyone in the building was outside. I found our office nearby, waited for a few minutes, then decided to breakfast rather than wait for an unknown amount of time. Eric and Kevin joined. We went to Rigolo. Chocolate croissant and coffee for Eric, veggie crepe and coffee for me, eggs oh la la and water for Kevin: $28.24. We talked about 80- and 78-character urls and the culture of Bay Area transportation. Back to the office. Content pouring with David J: bts research pg and g. Asana task followup. Various followup on issues in email. Very late lunch at the JCC: leek latkes with smoked salmon and sour cream, water. Update for Karen H: Readings page. Orgchart work. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: linguine in alfredo sauce with vegetables, Della Fattoria pumpkin seed toast, Viansa barbera 2012. Dessert: one mexican wedding cookie each. Watched a few clips and HD movie trailers on YouTube with Patrick.
Fri Oct 24, 2014
Breakfast: egg and cheese on Della Fattoria pumpkin seed toast. Edited photos from my Seattle and Vancouver BC trip. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Submitted the following request to ITS: "I was recently notified that my primary email address changed automatically from farmf@ph[...].ucsf.edu to frank.f[...]@ucsf.edu. Now when I log in to cuda, my spam settings are reset to default and my whitelists and blacklists are empty. Consequently, I'm now receiving more spam than usual. Please restore these settings from my farmf@ph[...].ucsf.edu cuda account as soon as possible." Content work in Drupal. Followup on various messages in email and on asana tasks. Reviewed pre-golive checklist procedures and executed them for Pam E and TKP with Kevin D. Content work in Drupal. Orgcharts followup with Lisa C. Edits to PharmD Residencies site for Monica. Met with David for more bts research edits. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home.
Sat Oct 25, 2014
Breakfast at home: two hash browns; two eggs fried with alba clamshell mushrooms, celery, and sharp cheddar; two pieces of pumpkin seed toast. Did some home improvement and cleaning. I prepared dinner for Patrick and me: teriyaki tofu with bok choy, celery, and onions; steamed white rice. Late meal: leftovers. Privately uploaded photos from my Seattle and Vancouver BC trip.
Sun Oct 26, 2014
Breakfast at home: pancakes, coffee. Watched Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) with Patrick. Laundry. Filled the first of five five-gallon bags in the 25-gallon water storage kit from Emergency Essentials ($41). Titled Seattle and Vancouver BC photos then made them public. Folded laundry. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie pizza delivery, we split a slice of cheesecake. Watched The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 25 on Hulu Plus with Patrick. Finished voting by mail. Edited and privately uploaded Sonoma photos.
Mon Oct 27, 2014
Breakfast: blueberry-apple granola with unsweetened soy milk. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Encountered Tran L along the walk up Judah, chatted. Surprise office party! Sprint standup. Wrote SOP IT wiki instructions for Lucia on how to add or update PharmD schedules in the new website. Met with Lucia: add/update schedules training in Drupal. Quick lunch: half of a smoked salmon sandwich from Palio, water. Chatted with Susie about orgcharts. CKEditor issue followup. Orgchart meeting with Susie and Joe. Asana task followup. Launched a new microsite for The Kidney Project and performed followup tasks. Launched England Lab and performed followup tasks. Gross Lab site build followup. Grad filing updates for Cindy and Lucia. Followup with Cindy about the shared calendar for our office. Rode Muni home.
Tue Oct 28, 2014
Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Email and asana task followup. Orgchart work. 1-on-1 with Susie. Comm team meeting. Asana task followup. Chatted with Nancy. Helped Joel and Rick with Jazzee questions. More orgchart work. More Jazzee followup. Content work in Drupal. Didn't have lunch today—too busy—but I did eat a pack of Corn Nuts and later a small bag of packaged popcorn. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Sri Thai. We watched music videos and late night show clips on YouTube. Did content inventory work from home because I realized yesterday that at least one url was missing from our content inventory. There are a few secret or otherwise hidden pages in our site, so it's good that I caught them before Friday. Titled Seattle and Vancouver BC photos. Content work in Drupal. Sent urls to Joel for review. Caught up on journaling.
Wed Oct 29, 2014
Breakfast at home: egg and cheese on english muffin, water. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Content work in Drupal: various admissions pages for Joel. Followup with CP website down. Various content work in Drupal all day. Calendar management. Lunch in the courtyard with Eric and Kevin: I ate california roll from a package. Met with Eric and Susie. Followup with site owners with builds in progress. Updated schedules for Lucia. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: tuna mac and cheese, pinot grigio. Watched part of Ender's Game (2013) on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Dessert: Three Twins lemon cookie ice cream.
Thu Oct 30, 2014
Breakfast at home: egg and cheese on english muffin, water. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Content inventory work. Sprint standup. Followup with CP website down. Lunch with Eric and Kevin at the JCC: I had a slice of veggie pizza and a side of fries. Met with Kevin to provide followup on CERSI. Met with David. Lots of asana ticket followup. Posted updated schedules for Lucia. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. Finished watching Ender's Game (2013) on Netflix DVD with Patrick.
Fri Oct 31, 2014
Drove to Stanford. Hospital visit: pre-op appointment. Lunch at Nola's: Patrick had a lemonade and a shrimp po boy with side of red beans and rice and cornbread, I had a mojito and a blackened chicken pesto sandwich and side of mac and cheese. We watched part of the Giants world series parade on televisions nearby. A very enjoyable meal. Drove home. Nap. Tina arrives by car following an overnight in Santa Barbara and a recent change of home. Rode Muni to Embarcadero Station. Dinner at Michael Mina with Tina and Patrick. Rode UberX home.