Thursday, December 18, 2008
Breakfast: yogurt, 2 clementines. School holiday party. Today Sak Yee from TQS Systems (415-828-7483) fixed our color printer in a jiffy. Styled the BTS website. Steve K gave the office some toffee almond bark that he had made—fantastic! A student whose name starts with J gave the office some delicious cookies. Shirin stopped by to say hello. She's in SF for a very short stay and househunting now and very thankful for the advice we've given her. It was great to see her before her start date in mid-January. To home. Dinner at home with Patrick: frozen thin-crust pizza. Dessert: Trader Joe's chocolate covered cookies—so good! Wrapped my secret santa gift for tomorrow. Vidchatted with Tina, met MJD, resolved the laptop mixup. To explain it, I have to backtrack. A week or so ago, Tina called me to say that she was sending me a package—a late birthday present. Within a few days a box arrived at work—I ask people to send me things at work—and the shipping label said AI on it so I knew this was the gift from Tina. I took it home and opened it and found a brand new MacBook laptop! I was stunned by her generosity and called her to thank her but also to ask her if she would take it back, but she refused. It wasn't until today when we had another conversation that I began to realize that she actually hadn't bought a laptop for me. The laptop I had was the one I had ordered for the office but wasn't expecting until a week later, which was the beginning of this week. And the funny part is that just this morning I asked Lucia to track down the missing laptop shipment. I still had not realized what had happened because I was certain that Tina had indeed sent me a new laptop. When Tina and I had talked and she had refused to take the laptop back, she was actually talking about a monetary gift that she was planning to make, and the call was a little confusing because of that, but somehow neither of us realized that the other was talking about the wrong thing. So in any case, the case of the missing office laptop is solved, and Patrick and I don't have a new MacBook to use at home. I won't be able to carry it in to work tomorrow because I have too much to carry already, so I'll hang on to it over the weekend and begin setting it up then take it in to the office on Monday.