Saturday, May 21, 2011
Weight training: door pull ups. Breakfast at home: organic oatmeal with fresh, diced granny smith apple, cinnamon, nonfat milk. Weight training: door pull ups. Pressed 3 fallen orchids with my Microfleur microwave flower press. Cleaned more spinach-potato soup stains from my suit. Collected screen snapshots of various home pages for 2 reasons. One is to provide support for my belief that font-changing Javascript widgets on web pages is of limited usefulness. The other is because Susie wants us to look at how other sites are providing links to social networking websites. This happens typically with small icons at the bottom of the page. We want to do the same kind of thing with our site, but we need to figure out a good way to fit it into our current design. This is technically work on a Saturday, but it doesn't take long to create good screen snapshots. Especially after Eric reminded me about Command+Shift+4. Picked up dry cleaning. Lunch at home: grilled cheese sandwich: Tillamook sharp cheddar on whole wheat. Drove to the Honmas. Dinner at Gombei (3533 Homestead Road, Santa Clara). Grocery shopping at Kyo-Po Market. Dessert at the Honmas: butterfinger ice cream with sprinkles and non-pareils. Tried to fix Jeremy's computer. The problem was that he got the "Open with..." dialog whenever he double-clicked applications. He told me that his computer had encountered virus infections in the past that were removed. I restarted in Safe Mode and successfully ran sfc /scannow but that did not fix the problem. Reran Malwarebytes and it found some threats but eventually Windows Vista crashed with a BSOD. I recommended a clean reinstall of Windows. Left late—around 9:30 PM. Home, chatted online with quantum13, then picked him up at home and we drove to Mist Ultra which sounds like an air freshener or a refreshing beverage or a cheap perfume but it's the name of the club to which GAMeBoi moved starting tonight. We luckily found parking just outside of Ted and Emery's place. We waited in line only a few minutes. At just before midnight, it was $15 to get in, $3 for coat check. 2 floors, I think restrooms were only on the ground floor. 18 and over. Tony and I received wrist bands and were asked before entering to not give alcohol to minors. This club is the only club I have seen with a glass dance floor—you can see right through the glass to people dancing on the 2nd floor. The glass tiles are quite big relative to its support frame, so it's a bit unnerving when stepping out on it the first time, but it and the 2nd floor feels quite solid—not worrisome at all. 2 DJs: one on the ground floor, then another in the glass-door enclosed lounge. Ventilation seems better than most clubs but still could be cooler and with more air pressure. I encountered Emery, Alex R, Joe and Duy, Rich S, Evan Low. Late meal with quantum13 at Orphan Andy's. (We checked Criolla first, but it is not open at this hour.) Onion rings and Coke for him, veggie burger and fries with plain water for me.