Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Brought lemon poppyseed muffins to work for an office potluck. Melissa brought a gourmet mixed greens salad with a homemade vinaigrette and dried cherries—delicious! Kristina brought crunchy purple grapes which everyone loved as well as tasty cheddar cheese on Ritz crackers. Someone else brought Le Petit Beurre cookies by LU. I finished setting up Kristina's computer, helped Joel do more setting up of his computer, troubleshot video problems and Sophos problems on my computer. Made several updates to the Career Fair page for Joel. Signed up for Google SiteSearch. Visited MSB9 with Cindy: the carpet is all in and the window shades as well. Made cdrom jewel case jackets for Office:max v.X. Updated news and calendar for current students for Kristina to indicate the pathway presentations. Ran out of disk space and discovered 2 gigabytes of temp files in the Sophos temp folder—what's going on there? I don't have time for that. Fought with PartitionMagic which gave me Error 1555 and access violations when attempting to resize partitions—bad PartitionMagic! Bad! Fortunately, my computer didn't blue-screen or otherwise lose data. Lots of critical Windows Updates—yesterday Microsoft released about 6 of them variously for XP, 2000, and NT4, so I was very busy installing these all day. Patrick went to class then came home and studied, did laundry, and cooked dinner: chicken chow mein, Hong Kong style. Yesterday the news headline told that electricity prices were expected to increase 30% this winter. There was no 7:30 pm bus today! Installed Windows Updates for the home computers, updated current students news and calendar from home (since there were some items that described items only for today). Paid bills, examined our money situation, moved money out from a new wimpy etrade sweep account into one that earned better interest, collected political propaganda for Joel (who for some reason seriously collects the junk). Got my new drivers license in the mail today. Expires in 2008! Shopped online for gifts for people. Pulled photos off the digital camera: Patrick in the kitchen and photos from riding the bus. Made more Muni spooves.