Wednesday, September 24, 2003
9:30 AM bus showed up more or less on time. Finished setting up Cindy's computer. Met with Son Dinh about his duties for our computer lab. Met with Susie—neither of us have a lot new to report. Installed Windows XP on my work computer. Installed Office Updates for nearly everyone in the office. Installed PartitionMagic on one of Chris's computers in preparation for a Win XP upgrade. Tested the laptop because Chris reported that the presentation pointer wasn't working properly. Couldn't reproduce the problem. Lunch at Strybing with combo chow mein from May Lee's Restaurant: $5.95. I'll never dine in, but the food was decent. My fortune: A friend asks only for your time, not your money. 7:00 PM bus showed up at 7:05 PM, and the bus driver was coughing for half the trip at least every 15 seconds. Adjusted my chair settings. She drank some water and felt better, so I'm hoping it wasn't the cold that seems to be going around. Ran to 7 Eleven for vegetable oil. There was a long line because there was only one guy behind the counter and he was talking to the man who brings him his Lotto machines; one of them wasn't working so he had to explain it all to the serviceman. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp chow mein. Patrick and I wrote in our All About Us book. Tested the (old) DVD player on the computer. CPU maxes out when it's used, causing some frames to drop, so I think we need more memory. Looked at Travis's and Tom's (or was it Timmie's?) photos of Waterworld from the weekend. E-mailed Mikey in Paris. Couldn't figure out why Outlook XP refuses to start up in the Outlook Today view even when I've specified that it should.