Monday, July 23, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Chatted briefly with Eamon in the hallway. Entering students update HTML e-mail prep. Mailed the entering students update HTML e-mail and made the web page live. Filed reimbursement requests. Set up Scott's new printer, an HP LaserJet 1022—same as Lucia's. Chatted with Susie, then with Shannon. Lunch: salad. Orientation web page edits for students NT and PT. Installed Opera for Lucia. Archived documents. Uninstalled and reinstalled Sygate to see if it fixes the 100% CPU problem with the server. Midafternoon meal: chicken piccata, steamed broccoli, brown rice, berry slushie. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon chicken, baked potato, corn on the cob. The replacement hard drive for the Mac Mini arrived today, so armed with my 4.5-inch Hyde Red Star drywall joint knives (aka putty knives) I took it apart and over the next 3.5 hours began reinstalling OS X from scratch. I didn't think of this until later, but I should have taken photos of the process. It is indeed not easy for a person inexperienced with opening computers. For me, not too bad. Flickrd.