Wednesday, January 7, 2004
I dreamt last night that my car had 2 or 3 flat tires as though it had been stepped on by a dinosaur but there was only body damage at the bottom near the tires. There was more to the dream, but that's all I remember. Lunch with James, Melissa, Ena, and Patrick at Park Chow. I had wonton soup, which was okay—an Americanized version. Patrick had the salmon sandwich special with a cup of seafood chowder. Melissa had the same but with a different soup. James had pork spare ribs with a cup of seafood chowder, and he also ordered and shared an appetizer of spicy chicken wings with all of us. Patrick left early to get a haircut with Lisa at Nice Cuts. Ena, Melissa, and I were surprised when James offered to pick up the tab for the whole table—very sweet of him. Today at work: link checking, met with someone who fixed our AC adapter and plugs problem which Mike R had left unresolved since we moved in on November 1, student directory on the web project. Photo filenames were normalized, images were batch-resized in ImageReady, then uploaded. The master table was rebuilt and the engine code modified accordingly. Tested—everything is still working. Image display code is not quite right because the script presumes all the photos are in one directory, but I want them in subdirectories by year so I'll have to modify that tomorrow. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery by Ha's: steamed rice, chicken chow mein, shrimp with mixed vegetables, about $15. My fortune: Love all, trust a few—5 42 24 35 23 15. Patrick's fortune: You will soon be involved in many social events—6 13 15 17 29 40. We got a bonus fortune cookie: Experience is the only prophecy of wise men—20 5 11 31 27 35. I found out today that zipzoomfly.com screwed up my computer parts order. I placed the order on Sunday, the Web site said everything was in stock, and this afternoon (Wednesday) I receive an e-mail saying that one item in my order was out of stock. Why does it take them over 2 days for them to figure that out and let me know?! Grrr!