Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shaved coconut, sliced and toasted almonds, blueberries; side of greek yogurt; hot water. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking, spellchecking, and policy work. Followup tasks after Katherine sent our new monthly html email newsletter this morning. Undid preparations for listserv moderation that Julia S initiated but which we never completed. Lots of listserv management, including creating a new list to manually maintain temp employees. Lots of calendar management to resolve (corrupted?) recurring items that failed to delete properly. I discovered on our IT website odd recommendations for Outlook and Exchange, such as you should never create recurring items that last longer than six months; you should never accept, decline or modify appointments, or invite others to appointments from your mobile device; never change a series and instead cancel the series and create a new one; never change an instance of a series and instead cancel just that instance and create a new one. Midafternoon snacks: rice crackers, one sumo orange. It took me the whole afternoon to resolve all the problems and then set up work schedule and holidays and vacations for 2025. Dinner at home with Patrick: Martha Stewart's tortellini soup with peas and spinach, hot water. We watched Skeleton Crew s1:e7 on Disney+ then Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year on Netflix. Patrick had a whiskey cocktail while watching. I washed some of the dishes at a break in between. Afterwards Patrick went to bed. I washed the remaining dishes. Harvested digital wallpaper for Zoom backgrounds. Late snack: crackers with cream cheese, cranberry juice mixed with water. Installed updates required by work. Uninstalled Adobe Bridge. Installed Adobe updates.