Wednesday, December 17, 2008
I forgot to mention that yesterday at the Seacret counter in Westfield Shopping Center a woman offered me a free sample which I took and then she asked me about my fingernails. I think I take pretty good care of my nails, but after a few minutes I realized that she wasn't complimenting me—she was really trying to tell me how ugly my fingernails were so that she could sell me nail care products. During her spiel I sort of messed her up by saying things it seemed she didn't expect, like "My nails never break" and "I've never had that happen before" and "But I don't like to grow them longer." Before I realized what she was doing, she demonstrated a $30 block with different sanding devices along different sides and polished my thumbnail so smoothly that I thought it was wet, but it was indeed dry and very, very shiny and smooth. I didn't buy anything from her, and the rest of the day my eye was catching light reflecting off my thumbnail so much that it was annoying. She told me the shiny would last for 2 weeks, so this morning I roughed up the nail with a nail file to get rid of the shiny. Besides, how safe is that for someone to use one nail file on (probably) hundreds of people each day? I'm not terribly worried, but at some point someone with unhealthy nails is probably going to pass something along to a person with cracked cuticles or a hangnail by way of that $30 magic polishing block. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Lately I've been having my usual oatmeal breakfast with brown sugar some days and without any sugar other days. It always includes one kind of fresh fruit. Lately I've been choosing sliced banana, diced apple, currants, raisins, and diced peach—one kind of fruit each morning. To work. Helped Eric D with a question about purchasing. Network port activation followup—we're scheduled with Nancy for Friday. Began major styling of the BTS website. Lunch by myself at Pomelo: honolulu, plain water no ice. About $12 after $2 tip. Shuttle to Laurel Heights. 1-on-1 with Susie. Web team meeting with Susie and Eric D. Shuttle to UCSF. To home. Recharge Spa holiday party. Leftover deep dish pizza from Paxtchi's at Paul's. House cleaning. Clothing maintenance. Edits for Danny's website: jquery ui-accordion-content height problem was resolved by editing accordion.js at line 237: BEFORE: autoHeight: true;—AFTER: autoHeight: false;