Friday, September 12, 2003
Ran across this on the Web while editing and coding Lodestar poetry: PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals. Ha ha ha ha! Oatmeal for breakfast. Got some stamps by mail yesterday. Tina got her gift from us by UPS yesterday—a Calphalon Professional 12-quart stock pot. She had mentioned to me not long ago that hers was missing. Daniel didn't have it and she couldn't find hers though she looked in every box since she moved.—Used Startup Manager to disable a lot of things starting up when I start Windows on my primary computer. Something was eating up a lot of system resources and I think it was all the junk that Epson includes with its drivers for our fairly new CX5200. Now when I boot I have 88% memory free—much better! Got style and data set and sort controls working for the student database. Dim sum lunch at Ton Kiang—a treat from our dean, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble. Ton Kiang is always delightful, and this time was no exception except that some were unable to attend (James, Joel, Debrah). Who was there? Jorge, Cindy, Melissa, Kristina, Ena, Claire, and Mary Anne. Bought a floppy drive cable from Atman Computer afterwards. Gave Cindy, Melissa, and Ena a ride back to the office. Dinner at home with Patrick: homemade grilled chicken Caesar salad with hearts of romaine and one of Melissa's heirloom tomatoes. The tomato was particularly delicious—very sweet, just like her!