Tuesday, April 20, 2004
I left a message today for Tina. I forgot her birthday on Monday and apologized. I realized it over breakfast and was so upset I couldn't eat and had to throw it out (the remainder of a bagel). The 7:49 AM bus driver for route 66 today was new to me. I don't usually take the bus this early, but I might start doing it regularly. He's so funny. About half the people that got on the bus he'd say something to right when they got on. (He didn't say anything to me tho.) When the bus pulled up to a telephone repair man working within the open doors one of a giant telephone switchbox, he'd yell out to him, "Hey! Fix my phone! It's been out of service for a week!" When we got to 19th, the driver stopped the bus, jumped out, said something to the florist on the corner, then came back to the bus with a bouquet of roses in his hand—I hadn't seen any money exchange hands. Later on down the line, I saw him give a single rose from the bouquet to one of the elderly women who boarded the bus. When we got to 9th and Judah and he saw an N train, he said, "Hey look, there's the N line! I useta do that job. BOOOOORING!" And again, for emphasis: "BORRRRRRING!" When we pulled up at UCSF and a UCSF shuttle was in the bus zone, he'd pull up alongside it and warn people as they got out: "Watch out for that bus! They're non-union—they don't know how to drive!" Like the others I saw around me, I left the bus with a smile on my face—it was so refreshing. I haven't had such a funny bus driver since the comedian bus driver I encountered in Seattle. Student Computing Support meeting. Joel had fixes for some errors he found in the graduation pages. Cindy notified me that the wireless project is moving along—they're going to get Mike R to find a contractor to do the installation for us. Spoke with Danica who had been ill, as I suspected. She got my listserv set up and I populated it and notified the requestors. Worked on Chris's laptop more. He presented it with complaints of script errors while browsing the Web, duplicate e-mail messages in Eudora, and a long delay before the network connects and starts working. I first did a full backup, now that Retrospect and the network connection were both working. I spent quite a while trying to figure the rest out. Ended up using System Restore, reapplying winsock and winsock2 reg fixes, and that fixed the delay problem. The script errors problem is resolved by checking "Disable script debugging" in Tools > Internet Options > Advanced &Browsing. Sped up browsing by unchecking "Automatically detect settings" in Tools &Internet Options &Connections &LAN Settings &Automatic Configuration—and—selecting "Every visit to the page" in Tools &Internet Options &General &Temporary Internet Files &Settings &Check for newer versions of stored pages. Dinner with BriKel at Sunflower—spring rolls, noodles, bbq pork, Vietnamese crepe. Went back to their place and watched Simpsons (dude ranch vacation, Lisa gets a crush on Luke—I'd seen it before but it's still funny), Queer Eye (the episode with the volleyball coach—funny), and Sit and Be Fit (bizarre yet somewhat fascinating). Home. Took care of another case of abuse for Lodestar Quarterly—when some homophobe signs up a straight friend as a joke. This one is from Cincinnati, Ohio. Tina left a message for me tonight. She is so busy! Read an article called The Secret Source of Google's Power on topix.net sent to me by Chris De Lay. Showered. Went to bed very late.