Saturday, April 14, 2007
I woke up and showered. Patrick got home from practice, showered, then took a nap. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Archived documents. E-mail. Chatted with Jesse online. Patrick woke up. Lunch with Patrick at home: turkey burgers, homemade french fries. At work and at home I've stopped using Webroot Spy Sweeper Enterprise to protect computers from spyware because I suspect it had been causing performance problems. Our computers at work are 5 years old. At home they're about 3 years old or younger. On newer computers Spy Sweeper might perform acceptably. The suspicious behaviors: frozen blue screen, frozen black screen with Windows logo, slow response time, Outlook e-mail connection errors. Instead, I have installed Microsoft Windows Defender. We'll see how it goes. If you need to uninstall Spy Sweeper, remember that you must search your hard drive for the file called ssecleanup.exe, double-click it, wait 60 seconds, then restart your computer. I am so glad I never joined Dodgeball. Flickr isn't loading pages properly right now (2:31 PM). Worked on Patrick's MySpace clouds redesign. Finished everything except the footer, and he said, "Oh, so it was easy then?" Drove to dinner, saw Steaven and ? and (I think) Benny on Noe but couldn't stop to say hello because of traffic. Dinner at Indian Oven (415-626-1628, 233 Fillmore Street at Haight) with Patrick—our first dinner out alone in months. The dinner is terrific—food and service are both excellent. After we leave and are driving home, we realized we forgot to take our leftovers—so embarrassing that nobody was paying any attention as we left. Watched Spider-Man 2 (2004) on DVD with Patrick. More work on Patrick's MySpace page, finished late.