Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Plugged Kristina's UPS back in. It had been unplugged since her office furniture arrived last week—she didn't know what it was for. Helped Joel understand how to make beautiful spreadsheets in Excel. He's a very fast learner. Lunch with Joel at Paradise Pizza. We ordered and after about 20 minutes remembered that the last time we ate here there was a long wait. And the restaurant isn't even half full. We had gardenburgers with fries and onion rings. Good food, but not worth the wait. (The chefs at Sparky's kick ass—they'd turn around a similar order in half the time with twice as many customers in the house.) I think this was also the first time I used the men's room in this restaurant. Could not find the light switch at all—had to ask where it was. It was 2 feet below where it should have been, and the practiced roll of the waitresses' eyes was my confirmation that I was a victim of poor design. Printed drafts of a new schedule design for Debrah to review. (Ena said she liked it.) Web planning meeting with Marie Parfitt Patty, Lorie Rice, Molly ("not the actress") Sims, and Susie Levings. Meeting went quickly, we're making progress toward what they want. Susie and Jeff gave me a ride back to Parnassus. Helped Jeff Bossio with e-mail—he couldn't log in and I found out that ITS accidentally closed about 600 e-mail accounts due to an error. They should be restored by morning. Took me an hour to get home on MUNI. Dinner at home with Patrick: crab cakes with aioli, green beans, baked potato, asiago cheese bread. Took care of money paperwork. Uploaded a revised fax form with updated prices for Gail. Scanned in an old photograph of Michael O'Brien I had in the photo safe, then uploaded it to ofoto. Compared the quotes I got for auto insurance last week, put a feeler out with the best offer. Found a PDF on the Web for the user manual of my brother's Minolta Maxxum 7000. I need to read that to figure out how to make it do what I want.