Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Met with Steve, handed off final drawings of cabinetry—he seems happy with them so far. Updated a schedule for Kristina. Coded Orientation City Tours info for Joel and Lilie and Marin, sent it to them for review. Link checking. Changed instances of dslreports.com to broadbandreports.com. Looked at new computer mouse options with James. Dropped off the master cdrom to Brian Pomon at 1cdsolution. Bought Muni passes, which are now $45 instead of $35 each. Celebrated Little Brian's birthday at their home on Clinton Park, which Patrick and I got to see for the first time. It's large by San Francisco standards: 3 rooms in the front, a bathroom, another room downstairs, a kitchen, and then a tree-covered patio in back. It looks comfortable despite a smallish kitchen. On my way over, I saw Jesse heading home to change his shoes and pants because he had accidentally stepped into what others who saw it said to be human feces due to the pile's amazingly large size. After he returned to the party, he was the butt of poop jokes for the rest of the night. Little Brian, whose family celebrates birthdays by the birthday person giving presents to his or her parents, received from Adrian a wireless game controller, and some birthday cards. Chinese food from Four Season was magically delivered, and that was fortunate because neither Patrick nor I had eaten and weren't told we would be fed. We listened to Fannypack's "So Stylistic". We met their housemate, Kim. Also in attendance were: Simma, Nico, Brian, and Kelly. We learned that their upstairs neighbor was Kirk Read, a writer with whom Patrick is acquainted. Worked on the Win XP reinstall at home—determined finally through running Sophos and watching the CPU usage with Task Manager that the problem is the 2nd hard drive. (Later, this turned out to be not true.)