Friday, November 6, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. To work. Brought to work half of a pumpkin pie and half of a sweet potato ginger pie that Patrick baked yesterday. Helped a student with a listserv problem. Sent the web steering lunch reminder. Followup on Mozy Pro transition. Helped Stephen F with email and voicemail setup problems. Chatted with Carol about a recent freeze on the white laptop. More maintenance for the white laptop. Confirmed resolution of an ICRD problem for Terence B. Packaged some InDesign documents for Cindy. Completed mobile broadband shopping for Don K, decided on Sprint. Lunch: brought salad from home. Coded next year's PharmD calendars. Chatted with Eric D about VirtualBox and screen resolution. We accidentally crashed my Mac Pro because I started VirtualBox while VMware Fusion was already running. I immediately got the translucent gray curtain of death and had to shut down and restart the Mac. Worked on the communications section. Dinner at home with Patrick: vegetable curry with brown rice, hot water. Dessert: Patrick made chocolate bread pudding. Watched the remainder of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) on library DVD with Patrick. I did not like this film at all because both of the main characters failed to act intelligently when intelligent actions were required to support their interests and because the denouement seemed extraordinarily unlikely. We will watch the commentary by Charles Busch and John Epperson, and that might help me understand what everyone thinks is so great about this film, but thus far I am not impressed.