Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Breakfast at home: banana, yogurt, orange juice. Backed up data from Chris's laptop in anticipation of reformatting it. Lots of trouble with the server's REV drive which took forever on a quick format so I had to restart the server to make it let go of the process. Couldn't proceed with the reformat because we both forgot he took the cdrom drive with him to Laurel Heights. Lunch: cow stew, brown rice, carrots. Listserv work for Claire. Listserv update for Joel. Showed Joel how to make Outlook not compress his weekend days into one cube. He didn't know how to fix it and had been just putting up with it for the past year. Helped various students with issues. Helped a faculty member with a listserv question. Minor web updates for James. Asked Julie to cover for me while I'm out next month. Helped Pollyanna with a question about Outlook. Helped a student concerned about spam. Minor web updates for Joel. Participated in group interviews today for the admissions assistant position in our office. Helped Mike L discover the problem he had with clicking links in e-mail messages—a "clunk" sound would happen but nothing else. He ended up having 4 or 5 different pieces of software providing pop-up blocker protection. This one happened to be Google Toolbar. I uninstalled it and lots of other junk, optimized other things, turned ClearType on, and so forth. Now his new laptop runs tons faster than before. Medicare Part D print materials, translations, and posters work for Susie. Dinner at home with Patrick: turkey parmesan over angel hair with asparagus. Added more data to the April 2 journal entry.