Friday, August 16, 2024

Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and toasted almonds, diced half peach; hot water. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Followup with network folder access IT requests. Academic Affairs content build. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. Attempted to create a generative AI video from scratch using various tools and failed. Nothing made this easy. Tried more attempts at using generative AI to create a still image and failed. Team meeting: style guide, what comms our team should and shouldn't forward, what comms do and don't deserve to be html email. Anastasio from IT picked up a 2017 MacBook Pro to be erased and surplussed. Late lunch: veggie spring rolls with dipping sauce from Panda Express and a parmesan pretzel from Jamba Juice. My fortune: If you can befriend yourself, you'll never be lonely. Asana task followup. Followup with two microsite requests. Listserv management. Unexpectedly found some web pages that should have been unpublished but weren't so I unpubbed them. Experimented with various search systems as research for a short content piece about search. Began reviewing and commenting on Katherine's social media strategy plan. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp and chive steamed dumplings with soy and garlic dipping sauce.