Monday, May 2, 2005
Usual oatmeal breakfast. I went to work even though I wasn't 100% better. I should have stayed home, though, because the 8:30 AM bus 66 didn't show up, and the 8:50 AM bus 66 didn't show up, either. At 8:56 AM I walked to the L line. At 9:05 I caught a train. I got to work via Forest Hill and a 43 bus an hour and 12 minutes after I left home. I got so much done at work today. Installed a replacement CD-ROM drive for the computer in the student lounge. Restored lost stickies for Cindy (I thought I would get them from backup tape but they weren't there - panic! - but I did a system restore backwards and then forwards again—so handy like travelling through time.) Filed a complaint with Muni about the bus not showing up today. Talked on the phone to a nurse at Kaiser about my cold. Spent a very long time on Internet chat with cmsproducts.com to get a copy of my invoice which reflected the correct amount they charged me. Filed reimbursement paperwork. Rebuilt my work briefcase on my USB drive. Fine-tuned a presentation for Cindy, then loaded it onto the laptop. Part of the fine-tuning was figuring out how to reduce the filesize. The original presentation was 25 MB. I got it down to less than 1 MB using a tip from P.M. Smith at Leicester: Cut an image, Paste Special as a JPEG, repeat for all images in the file, save. If this doesn't work for you, your image might need to be resized (resampled smaller) in Photoshop, then paste-specialed in as a JPEG. Linkchecking. Burned a CD-ROM for James. Helped a student with logins and passwords to web resources. Spent about 20 or 30 minutes trying to install Retrospect 6.5 on our server; Gil from Retrospect helped out in a big way. Filed my timesheet. Made CD-ROM archives of the websites. Updated our monthly web archive with WinHTTrack. Upgraded all the clients to the latest Retrospect client. Set up Retrospect selectors and backup scripts.