Wednesday, January 5, 2005
I can't remember last night's dream very well, but it had something to do with gay men in the late 1960s singing and dancing showtunes. Ate a banana for breakfast. No 8:08 AM bus this morning, so I went back home for a proper breakfast. The 8:30 AM bus showed up at 8:25 AM—I heard it go by. While eating breakfast I chatted online with John W (or possibly Douglas T) from sonic.net about packet loss. After a few minutes, he said there was a sonic router that might need looking into. I thanked him for his help and said goodbye. No 8:50 AM bus. At 9:12 AM the 9:10 AM bus hadn't shown up, so I started walking. At 9:14 AM, the 9:10 AM bus shows up. Grrr! Reposted a schedule for Debrah. Archived documents: computer assistant, omnilock instructions. Small grad filing changes for Cindy, made them live. Helped student Amy with downloading micromedex, chatted with Rodney who assisted with a solution for her. Lunch: takeaway from Carmelina's with Joel and Melissa. I had a delicious shredded chicken burrito. Over lunch, Joel explained (by drawing pictures) what "daisy chain" means. Everyone really liked the TJ's cinnamon graham crackers I brought and shared. Hardened our new Windows Server 2003. Laptop maintenance for Chris: backup, VPN reinstall, disable stick pointer, uninstall Brother multifunction software and PaperPort software. Chris C shared some Lindt dark chocolate wafer-thin squares—yummy! Dinner at home with Patrick: pig masala with rice, mojito seafood. We picked up Patrick's mom at the airport. She's staying with us for a week. No agenda—just a relaxing vacation. Mom has some of Patrick's pig masala with rice. I submitted 3 complaints on Muni's website for busses that didn't show up. I normally don't bother because if I submitted a complaint every time Muni was late or didn't show up I'd lose a measurable portion of my life doing so. But being able to do 3 at once seemed like it was worth it, so I did.