Thursday, December 25, 2008
This morning Patrick discovered that another small flood had taken place overnight, but this time there was no damage since Patrick had put a bunch of old towels on the floor just in case this would happen again. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Patrick and I opened Christmas presents. Patrick left to take Simmone to the airport. Uploaded photos to Flickr. I stayed home, left a voicemail for the landlord, and cleaned up from today's flood and what remained to be cleaned up from the flood we had on December 19. Part of this was going through a box of music cd inserts. I had put my cd collection onto my computer beginning in 1997 or 1998, removed and saved the cd inserts, and got rid of all the jewel cases to save space. This box of cd inserts had gotten wet in the first flooding incident and were completely ruined. I spent today making certain there were no cds in any of the cases and removed the hard plastic from the paper so that the hard plastic could go into the trash and the paper could go into compost (rather than recycling, since it was moldy). Did a load of laundry. Dim sum late lunch at Yank Sing Rincon Center with Patrick, Mom Ryan, Sam, Sandip, Danny, Drew, Phil, Jane. Opened presents at Mom Ryan's. To home. Uploaded photos and video to Flickr. Got errors while uploading batches of photos to Flickr. Flickr Uploadr seems to be reliable for only small batches of photos. Watched Heroes season 3 episode 6 (Dying of the Light) on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Began installing a fresh virtual copy of Windows Vista SP1 into VMware Fusion. The Vista I have now has many annoying problems: copy and paste between it and OS X does not work, music or sound sometimes does not work, I no longer see thumbnails in Windows Explorer, and I repeatedly get the annoying "Please wait while Windows configures Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3" message over and over and over again. Rather than try to fix all of these separately, I've decided that it's easier to simply reinstall Vista and then reinstall all my apps. I share my OS X home folder with the virtual Vista, so I don't have any data in Vista to save.