Thursday, December 13, 2012
Stretches. Weight training: tricep kickback, parallel dip. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with diced gala apple, cinnamon, soy milk. Hand-delivered by car a misdelivered letter that was addressed to the same house number but five blocks over. Upon returning, I found that I had lost my parking space and had to find another. Missed the bus by a few minutes, so I rode my bike to work. Sent Dan P an escalation following up on student YC having a problem with Outlook. C3 technical check-in meeting. Followup with Zach S about a problem with URL naming in Confluence. Turns out there's a bug in Confluence whereby URLs ending with a parenthesis (or any other reserved character) will cause the page's URL to use the page ID rather than the page title. Forgot my cash clip today, so I got money from the ATM. Lunch: I wanted a taco from Carmelina's, but the line was momentarily too long, so I got a panda bowl of chow mein and vegetables from Panda Express which had no line. Set up my new MacBook Air for work. I was interested to see that the cheesy Welcome-in-every-human-language video was gone from the setup process, so things went much faster and felt more professional. I was done much faster than I expected. Added a few items to the SOP IT wiki. Important meeting with interim dean Joe G, Susie, Michael W, Eric, Michael N. The meeting went very well. Web edits for Cindy and Lucia: graduation filing. Lisa thought she had a virus on her personal laptop and asked me to check it out. I did, and there's nothing wrong. I installed a bunch of updates, but the laptop seemed normal to me. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: brown-rice-noodle pad thai with shrimp and vegetables, hot water. Dessert: hot chocolate with mini marshmallows. Finished watching The Amazing Spider-Man on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Continued editing Patrick's new book: pages 4 to 22. Continued with spice organization: orange peel, red pepper, garlic powder.