Thursday, October 2, 2003
Couldn't sleep last night because of problems at work with VPN. Granola for breakfast. Chatted with Mike R about wiring—he acknowledges receiving all the documents I sent him and he knows our schedule and has no questions. Morning was spent dropping off the computer for Mike L at 9:30 am—got to work at 11:00 am. He's all set up for now, we think. Spent most of the afternoon documenting VPN issues. Answered a few questions for Mike L about e-mail and Windows XP. Quick questions—no problems. Updated orientation pages and calendars and news. Rented Powaqqatsi from Le Video ($4.33 for 3 nights)—perhaps the closest thing to Scarecrow Video that San Francisco has. Neither Patrick and I knew that George Lucas was involved with this film. Cool! However, neither of us liked the soundtrack by Philip Glass. I kept wanting to mute it and play something else instead—even Enya would have been better. We both loved the cinematography, but it was a much slower film than Baraka, which Brian and Kelly introduced us to. Parts of it reminded me of the Portraits book by Steve McCurry which Eric Sanders and Maia Williamson-Sanders gave us a long time ago. All the people carrying heavy loads on their backs and heads made me more tired after my already tiring day. Every step of someone with an unbearable weight was a weight on my eyelids. About halfway into the film we were about to fall asleep, so we bookmarked it and turned it off.