Monday, December 15, 2008
Usual granola breakfast. I forgot to mention that lately I've been having my standard oatmeal breakfast with no sugars, and I haven't been missing the sweetness—nice. To work. Missed the bus by 1 minute. (Or, I believe, it was early.) Helped student NG with questions about trojans and spam and phishing. Rescheduled today's meetings—Susie is out. Our office recently offered the outreach and recruitment coordinator position to Shirin H, and she accepted, so I'm doing some activities that prepare for her arrival. Last Friday I secured James's old voicemail password from James. Today when I checked the voicemail it had messages from 18 months ago! I deleted them all, removed the old greeting and the state-your-name thing. When I checked on her computer, I found that all was well except the network connection was no longer working. I submitted a request to OAAIS to reenable it. There was no printer in her office—printers got shuffled around some in the past year—so I ordered a new one. Updated the phone number cheat sheet. Created welcome materials. Created a computer account. Updated the hardware inventory list. Updated all web calendars. Minor web edits: 2009 computer requirements, interview prep details for JWG, white coat ceremony. Helped JWG with Microsoft Word. Troubleshot printer jams with Chris C—it was loaded with copy paper rather than laser paper, so I sent Eric V an email asking him to order some laser paper instead. Prepared new phone number cheat sheets for Shirin's arrival. Installed OS 10.5.6 at work. Patrick picked me up in the car. Dinner at Danny, Drew, and Phil's. Patrick brought homemade bread pudding. Installed OS 10.5.6 at home. Today at home on the iMac, I received the following error message: "Time Machine Error: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume. (OK)" But when we open the backup drive, it shows all seems well. Not sure what we're supposed to do about this error message. May research more later. Mirroring automation is not working like I thought it was. Must fix later.