Thursday, November 13, 2003
Breakfast: Leftovers of a lunch Patrick had at a pho shop near 99 Market: beef and shrimp with rice noodles. Yummy! Ignored dirt particles spewed out of the air circulation vent. Uploaded winter draft schedules for Debrah. Updated the current students calendar through February. Updated graduating students calendar. Did more bandwidth speed tests—still awful: 428 kbps! Mike Lemont treated me to lunch at Zazie: he had a croque madame and water, I had pumpkin pancakes and a chai tea. My meal was very delicious and it was most pleasant to get away from campus for lunch—something I don't get to do often. After lunch was a CSC meeting from 2 to 4. After that I did updates for Windows and Office on all our computers. Bandwidth test on Debrah's computer: download speed was 40 kbps (5 KB per second)! Installed PharmAdMIT 2004 for Kristina and repaired the previous installations of 2002 and 2003. Ensured that all computers were up to build 13 for 2004. 6:30 pm bus 66 didn't show up. I arrived at 9th and Judah at 6:20 pm and waited until 6:45 pm before taking a bus 44 to Forest Hill, then an L train to 30th and Taraval. Dinner at home with Patrick: steamed broccoli, macaroni and cheese, boneless skinless chicken boob with Chinese barbecue sauce and ground black pepper. Fixed a problem with Domenica's website. Link checking for home websites. Replied to a few e-mails. Wrote a few vacation entries in the journal. Did computer shopping online. Visited my Amazon wish list.