Monday, October 14, 2002
Web meeting with Susie. She okayed our transition to the new banner. We decided to use black instead of gray or teal. I put in the new banner in about 10 minutes. Within about 30 minutes, Chris called me asking where the Campus Directory link had gone, so I referred him to the page header design team to direct his (rightful) wrath. Made live a bunch of other changes that had been held up due to review processes. I spent most of the morning working on the Consumer Self Care estimates for Web development. Lunch with Patrick and Michael at San Tung where today's lunch special did not include the soup because (the waiter said) "it's a holiday." After he took our orders, we all looked at each other and wondered how the Columbus Day "holiday" determines the availability of soup in a lunch special in a Chinese restaurant. It made me wish we'd eaten at Beijing on Irving across the street instead where we would have gotten the soup and an egg roll as well. We ordered lemon chicken, cherry pork, and cashew chicken and shared it all family style. Our fortunes: Michael got "People are attracted to your inventive and intuitive mind." Patrick got: "Pleasant, talented, attractive personalities will cross your life and spark your imagination." I got "Stop waiting! !! ! Buy that ticket. Take that special trip." I spent most of the afternoon thinking up a resolution for too much non-school-related traffic on our mailing lists. I put together a proposal and sent it to Chris and Cindy. Dinner at home with Patrick: I made shrimp quesadillas and pork-stuffed bell peppers. I rested while Patrick folded laundry and did the dishes. We watched a new Madonna video called "Die Another Day", a South Park episode called Simpsons Did It and a Simpsons episode with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.