Tuesday, April 10, 2007
It's Patrick's birthday! Usual oatmeal breakfast. In to work early. Chatted with Susie briefly. Sent Cindy the ERF to review. Sent reminder for websteering lunch. Staff meeting. Helped Cindy with logo requests. Rodney told me today he recently rebuilt one of his servers. The hard drive died after 8 years (!) of service. Can you believe it? Web edits: computing requirements. Lunch: I got a sandwich and Sun Chips and a raspberry iced tea from Subway and went to N-225. The student enrichment program brought comedian Marga Gomez to make us laugh. She was outstandingly funny. At the very start of her show some woman in the front row was being unruly, and someone tried to get her to leave, but Marga insisted she stay—she's such a peacemaker. The woman stayed and I thought it was going to be a repeat of the man who sat next to me at Charo but no, she laughed many times—how can you be in Marga Gomez's presence and not laugh? Helped Carol and Cindy with problems with Outlook stalling. Met briefly with student AH. Left work early. Errands. Home. Patrick, Mom Ryan, and Sam were there waiting for the evening party to begin. Peter arrived shortly afterwards, followed by Phil, Danny, and Drew. I had ordered Chinese food delivery. We had foil wrapped chicken, crispy ginger chicken, sweet and sour pork, sesame crispy beef, honey walnut prawns, fish fillet with bok choy, spinach with garlic, and combination fried rice. Fortune cookies. My fortune: You have a potential urge and the ability for accomplishment. The birthday cake was a princess cake from Ambrosia Bakery. We also had cookies from Ambrosia to snack on before and after dinner. Patrick's gifts from me were the library editions of Clue and Risk and a bouquet of 3 red ginger root stems. The library editions are special wooden boxed versions of the same games except the board folds up and it fits on a bookshelf. I think it's a Target store exclusive, which explains why I couldn't find it anywhere else. (Actually, I bought from Amazon which partners with Target.)