Friday, December 23, 2005
Patrick made my favorite breakfast for us: eggs, sausage, hash browns, toast, yogurt, orange juice. Cut my hair. More of the same from yesterday. Patrick finished the decks today, so I put them in. He ran "errands" which means he's buying a Christmas present for me. Lunch: leftover noodles from last night. I got a lot done today. Edited an image for Tina. Created our holiday card. Prepped new rental applications. Edited images. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover pizza, lasagna. Made Lodestar live (one day late). Patrick wrapped a few Christmas presents. Sent out the holiday card. Archived documents. Updated my contact info database so that it has two e-mail address fields instead of just one. Previously I had e-mail addresses in a memo field, but I realized I needed a plain text field with the most current e-mail address and a memo field for "other" e-mail addresses. The old Panasonic LC50 flat panel monitor I paid $999 for many many years ago today started exhibiting some problematic ghosting problems that don't seem to be easily fixable. I picked out and ordered my new monitor—a Dell 2005FPW. The next best choice would have been the Samsung 204T-Black, but I preferred the lower price and 16:10 aspect ratio and handy USB ports on the Dell.