Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Reviewed Mark B's Entourage edits. Downloaded photos from the camera, stored them on the server, notified everyone who attended yesterday where they were. City Tours edits for Joel, Luke, and Julie; sent them out for review. Helped Joel figure out how to avoid Reading Layout in Microsoft Word 2003 (Tools > Options > General, uncheck "Allow starting in Reading Layout"). Updated CPG members page for Susie. Reviewed a FERPA release form for Cindy. Updated the HIPAA training page for Cindy. Updated the P1 schedule for Cindy, sent it to her for review. Removed a virus from Joel's computer, repatched him against it just to make sure it stays clean. Chatted with Susie to resolve a problem she had sending RTF attachments. (Somehow she was sending shortcuts to the attachments rather than the attachments themselves.) Tito arrived to swap out the mobo in Chris's laptop yet again. This time it fixed everything. No LCD replacement was necessary and the docking station USB problem was resolved, too. Deployed HTML e-mail templates to nearly everyone in the office. Cleaned out one of my temp folders. Prepped for working with ITS to update the content for their VPN web pages. Lunch with Joel at Dragonfly: sesame beef appetizer, both of us got Saigon style vermicelli (bun cha gio thit nuong)—BBQ pig, imperial rolls, vermicelli, vegetables, fish sauce. Dinner at Lakeside Cafe with Mom Ryan and Patrick: Mom Ryan and I both had angel hair with chicken and spinach, Patrick had spaghetti and meatballs. We all shared an order of tiramisu for dessert. Afterwards we went shopping at Ross to get her some clothes. She left New Orleans quickly and didn't take much with her. Also, New Orleans was hot (95 degrees Fahrenheit) when she left, and San Francisco is much cooler, so she needed some warmer clothes. We spent the evening discussing the effects of Katrina: where family ended up, what areas are known to be flooded, the stories we had heard on the news, and so forth. Mom Ryan is still somewhat shaken by the sudden turn of events, and we all feel fortunate that she's alive and out of the area. Spent some time further securing the Mac and trying to get backups to work. Couldn't figure out how to make Automator burn 2 specific files to DVD. I set it all up so that it looked right, but when I clicked Run the DVD ejected without any files on it. I was unable to log into the Mac from work today and I don't know why. It worked in the past—maybe there have been firewall changes at work...I'll have to investigate further. I forgot to mention 2 days ago that when the 8:50 AM bus finally showed up it was filthy. The floor was strewn with sunflower seed shells, gummi cola bottles, candy bar wrappers, assorted trash, and the remains of a sticky spilled drink which had been cleaned up in a half-assed manner. One seat had some kind of greasy mess which was wiped up incompletely. The windows has grease marks where presumably tired riders had leaned their heads. Simply disgusting!