Thursday, February 1, 2007

Skipped breakfast. We held a birthday party for Cindy at the office. I made and posted happy birthday signs yesterday evening and set a card signed by everyone on her keyboard. Joel made cookies from a Barefoot Contessa recipe and packed a special box of cookies for the birthday recipient as well as pairs of cookies for everyone else—he really went the extra mile. Lucia put together an amazing tray of fruit including grapes, strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. (Scott?) brought bagels and cream cheese. James brought sinfully delightful doughnuts. Steaven brought a really delicious frittata. We talked a lot about movies, and I couldn't even remember the movie Patrick and I saw recently on DVD. For the afternoon party, Alyssa brought chocolate cupcakes. Worked with Ariel to schedule an update for our wireless access point in the student lounge. Sent Lorie and Susie the proposed podcast web page I composed after Cindy had approved it. Helped student CP with questions about VPN via e-mail. Met with Susie about our new hire and the job description for it. Windows updates. Apple updates in Windows. Followup with student MN about a changed e-mail address. More followup with student CP about VPN. Helped student AF with e-mail problems. Gave a heads up to the office staff about a monitor arm installation to take place in our office. Chatted briefly online with Tony Q and Geordie. Lunch with Joel at Cybelle's. Adolpho and Kim passed by on the sidewalk, and Adolpho returned after a few minutes to chat with me and Joel near the end of lunch. Spent a few minutes visiting Geordie, one of the cool IT guys I met at a recent info security training. He moved from a UCSF job at Mission Bay to a different but similar UCSF job in my building, so he's really close by, which will be nice. Today was his first day in our building. Dinner at Burgermeister on Church with Patrick. Julie's Karaoke Birthday Party at The Mint with Patrick, Thom, Jeff, Julie, Ziggy, Mark (Marc?), Mike, Christina, Mik, Eric, Beth, Gregor. Among others, we got to hear Julie sing Joy to the World (the Three Dog Night song, not the Christmas song). The cake was a very delicious dairy-free, photo Maggie Mudd chocolate peanut butter ice cream cake. I had no idea dairy-free ice cream could taste so good! Home. Archived documents. Processed photos.