Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and roasted almonds, diced half banana; hot water. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. Continued work to remove and replace a photo that someone did not like of themselves from our website. Followup with Erica D about a dynamic listserv request. Followup with Zach S, Micquel L, and Sebastien A about Otter spam and other account transition followup. Troubleshot problems with OneDrive opening an Excel spreadsheet in read only mode then if I close it and reopen it in a different way then it is writeable. Followup with Christina O about Siteimprove admin config. Followup with Tram C about her orgchart and office name change web page updates. Minor web edit for Julia S for white coat ceremony and YouTube livestream thumbnail. Erica D let me know that the dynamic listserv request is now waiting on Andy B. Followup with Andy B about a dynamic listserv request. Submitted an email address change for Julia S: OSACA to OSA. Handled a request from a School of Medicine student about archiving email; they had found our web page about it and needed help. Walked and rode Muni to dinner at Cadillac Grill. We shared nachos with jalas on the side and an order of 5 tacos: one carnitas, two shrimp, and two chicken. Patrick ate three tacos; I ate two. Mexican Coke for Patrick, San Pellegrino water for me. Churros with caramel dipping sauce for dessert. Food was good. Service was odd—sometimes neglectful and other times friendly and attentive and other times socially awkward. Afterwards at the Main Library at 100 Larkin Street we attended San Francisco on the Silver Screen, the first of four film talks in a series called Film: Cinematic San Francisco by Jim Van Buskirk, a retired SFPL librarian, major movie buff, and public speaker, is the co-author of Celluloid San Francisco: The Film Lover’s Guide to Bay Area Movie Locations as well as other books, articles, blogs and radio broadcasts on San Francisco and film history. He talked for an hour and took questions from the audience for half an hour. We enjoyed the talk and the clips of old films. Among many things, I learned that motion pictures were invented in Palo Alto, the first public motion picture exhibition took place in San Francisco, the first complete movie studio on the Pacific coast was in San Francisco, and the all-electric television was invented in San Francisco. Walked and rode Muni home, stopping at the West Portal Branch Library to pick up a DVD and at Easy Breezy for frozen yogurt since we had some time to kill before the bus we wanted arrived. We watched The Simpsons s32:e20 on Hulu. Patrick went to bed. Lately I have been doing simple physical therapy to resolve a small pain in my back, and as that pain has eased I have also been slowly returning to weight training using free weights at home.