Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Breakfast at home: super granola with unsweetened almond milk. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Sprint standup. Helped Frances K resolve a problem with ITS with network folder access. Reported and followed up with servint regarding problems encountered following yesterday's web outage. Staged web updates for Leslie M: preview session. Lunch at Pasta Pomodoro: lunch express: capellini tre colori with minestrone soup, dolce piatto ($12). This was the second disappointing Pasta Pomodoro experience I have had in recent memory. The dolce piatto ($7.50) was a sampler plate of chocolate cake, cheesecake, and seasonal gelato. Its description included "dolce cioccolato" which I saw elsewhere on the menu was a warm chocolate cake but when the dessert arrived, the chocolate cake was not warm. In fact, it and the cheesecake had been hurriedly taken out of the freezer; there was still a crisp layer of frost on top. The menu needs to make it clearer that the dolce cioccolato in the dolce piatto is not the same as the standalone dolce cioccolato. The (peach?) gelato was tasty, so I ate it along with sauced fresh berries. Later I expressed my disappointment while offering to still pay for the dessert since I ate part of it, but in the end Brad apologized and removed it from the bill. My bill was originally $22.27. I also had a $5 off coupon for completing a survey following a previous meal, so my resulting bill was $7.61. I tipped $3.50 because service by Brad was good despite the kitchen's error with the dessert. Afterward I bought wine at Wine Expression. Met with Kirk H and Chandler M by phone about encryption for students. Met with Eric, Susie, and Kevin about the proposed identity guidelines for web from University Relations. Content inventory work with Susie. Prepared a response to the proposed UCSF brand guidelines for web, sent it to the team for review. Rode UberX to Scot and ECB's. WTFW dinner with many from the Syndicate at Scot and ECB's with a birthday celebration for Alan. ECB was in NYC. I met Ben T. Dan B let me share his UberX ride to Forest Hill Station, and I rode Muni home from there.