Friday, November 21, 2008
Breakfast: pumpkin yogurt. New faculty orientation at the Alumni House—all went smoothly. They had food at the start, so I had some fresh fruit and a cube of ham and egg frittata. Lunch by myself at Pasta Pomodoro. 3 slices of pizza with a side salad: $9.38. The receipt said my server's name was Cindy, and she disappeared for very long stretches leaving me wondering when she was going to take my order and refill my water glass. Corrected calendar web errors reported by Jeff B and Deborah P. Lots of job postings form work—had to redesign the HTML email. My previous design used background colors and was very pretty, but I realized afterwards that people will probably want to print the job postings, and all the background colors would unnecessarily waste printer ink and toner. Also, email applications don't always give people easy options for disabling background colors when printing. So with HTML email it's better to use background colors as sparingly as possible, I think. In the few HTML email templates I've created in the past I don't know that I realized this. Next steps: set up myphpadmin, build the backend database, and set up the insertions. To home. Stretches. Dinner at home with Patrick: rigatoni with chicken and mushrooms, ciabatta roll, Smart Balance Light. Watched Heroes volume 2 chapter 7 on Netflix DVD with Patrick. MH called tonight to report that she passed her bar exam! Woo hoo!