Wednesday, March 2, 2005
The PUR water filter we bought a few weeks ago has finally died on us. It lasted longer than we thought because the progress indicator was misleading. At first the progress window was empty, then over time we saw it fill up with a white bar, then later we saw it fill up again with a red bar. The box didn't warn us that there were 2 colors, so when we saw the white bar, we thought, "Well, that didn't last very long." Still, the box claims that it lasts 2 to 3 months and I think ours lasted no more than 6 weeks. Filed a report with Muni—the 9:10 AM bus yesterday didn't show up. The replacement power supply for Dell showed up today—that was fast! I swapped the bad with the good and Melissa's computer is back online about 24 hours after the initial problem report. Thanks, Dell! Telephone callbacks to students who did not complete the e-mail forwarding portion of their e-mail migration. "Unable to relay" error messages reported from Debrah and Chris while sending some messages from Eudora. Donna at ITS answered my call and I delivered her a scanned printout of the erroneous message headers. Updated a listserv for Chris. Updated current students news with a fundraiser event. Sorted old e-mails. Reconfigured SSH profiles. Lunch with Joel: Carmelina's. I had the #4 burrito with shredded chicken and mild salsa. I don't remember what Joel got, but it was small. Upon returning to work, the front office was freaked out by the sighting of a brown mouse in Kristina's cube. We discovered that the mouse (or mice) had chewed a quarter-sized hole through a backpack which was inside of a trash can liner tied with a knot and stored in an overhead bin. At Kristina's request, I put the whole backpack in the garbage and left it in the hallway. Everyone in the front office did some cleaning out of cube spaces, and the vacuum cleaner I had purchased recently for the office came in handy. Went to the dentist to repair a tiny cavity and a chipped tooth. Helped Chris with logo artwork. Home. Chatted with Tina on the phone. Dinner at home with Patrick: farfalle with chicken in garden primavera, seeded bread and butter. More password changing. My jaw aches now. Ouch! Watched videos from Erasure HITS! The Videos. Patrick soaked his feet in ginger water.