Monday, November 3, 2003
Morning abs workout. Took the trash out. I've been away from the journal lately because of our office move. Saturday I worked from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm. Sunday I worked from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Today was the first day of operations in the new offices. Our office staff arrived to find phones and computers set up (but not necessarily connected) and still-packed boxes that had been left by the movers on Saturday. Everyone spent the day unpacking and organizing. We received a handful of our first-ever visitors who looked around in awe at our shiny, new, and very clean surroundings. I took photos of the old space in UC Hall U-12. Worked with Mike R and another network guy named Lito (not sure of the spelling, though) to continue getting all the services running. Setting up the network printers has been giving me a headache. To his credit, Mike R has been more communicative today than usual, and he got all our phones working by (I think) 10:00 or 11:00 am. Data took longer—it wasn't until around 4:30 that Lito finally got things ironed out enough to cover all our high priority issues. Cindy bought lunch: Round Table Pizza and salad. Fought with HP's Web site today—couldn't find Web JetAdmin to download. Realized late in the evening that they had just released a new version today (what a coincidence!) so consequently their download page was incorrect for a while. Downloaded it, installed it, and got a message saying I don't have Java—ugh! 30 minutes later after a 15-megabyte download at about 10 KB/sec the Java installer downloads. I run it, and it needs to download another 5 MB of I don't know what. I give up (for now) and think to myself: "Java will never truly be my friend." Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover salad, Martha Stewart's 200-grain bread, fettucine with mushrooms and basil and homemade alfredo. Tried to reach Tina by phone, sent her e-mail instead, read blogs. Caught up on e-mail.