Nada.

Today was a pretty easy day. There was an IT Open House at the library which we went to. I learned about this BigFix client that’s pretty comprehensive. It’s made to deploy patches on all our windows machines that are totally wide open to the net. I try to get my group to install this, but of course, users don’t listen to computer admins. laff.

There were drawings for iPods and such. It was too lame since even if you won, you had to spin a wheel to figure out what prize you would get.

Went to another chalk talk about user centric design. Basically the Sakai project is just like Open Coursework from MIT, and he talked about the importance of user testing up front. I know for a fact that we don’t do this in our own repository development. probably because it’s hard to define who our users are really, but I still think it’s the “right” way of doing software development. Of course this means nobody does this. laff.

I came back to work around 3:30 only to learn the our storage system that we were testing was down and it would take 1.5 hours to fix. Great. I went home and decided to make a cheesecake, for no apparent reason… It’lls be a strawberry one. hopefully it’ll turn out well. i forgot to add the heavy whipping cream. no wonder it was a bit dry. I’m sure the 1.5 cups of sugar will go a long way to hide that fact. ha!

Just regular day.

We stayed at home today, mainly because Vince has a little bit of the cold that Edda and Jeremy had earlier this week. We did make it to the Lot 1 (our mall, as Vince calls it, it takes only 2.3 minutes walking to get there, I think I’ve parked further away from a mall in the US than our apartment is from Lot 1). I was indulgent today and bought Vince a Thomas wallet to replace his old Thomas wallet. What am I thinking? He is a Thomas fiend.

Bonus…

Well, we had a Staff Appreciation Luncheon today on campus. They celebrated by opening the new staff rec center that has a climbing wall, a full gym w/ weigths and trainers, basketball courts, squash courts, and a fencing gym. I guess I’ll have to take a fencing class at some point in the future. It’s too cool not to. They ironic that they forgot to install showers in the building. I dunno who the genius was who got away with that.

Also apparently, all the staff got a $250 dollar bonus today too. Whoa. Apparently this never happens… And it’s not much compared to the tech bonus of old. laff.

Tuesday is tennis night. I got some new tennis raquets that are really 5 years old. but they cost me 60 bucks a pop, which is good. Choon is demoing some racquets, and i think they are at least $150 a piece, and I knew if i did that that i would end up spending a lot of money on something that would only be marginally better. I pretty played witrh my racquet for the first time today, and I have to say that I really liked it. too bad we lost the match. 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. doh

Afterwards, Pei-Sun had brought some creme brulee for everyone to snack on. so we all got the ramakins out in the middle of the court and chowed down. Incidentally, does Jeremey know what the primo creme brulee carmelizing torch is? Pei-Sun is not happy with the one that she has.

One of my roomies is funny. He’s all stressing about asking a girl out. He’s a nervous type about it. I just wish he’d calm down a little. I think he’s thinking too far in advance. are we a good match in this way? is this good about her? or can I deal with this about her? basically he just doesn’t know know her very well at the moment, so I’m hoping he’ll concentrate on that first. I’ve armed him with a bunch of restaraunts to go to in downtown mountain view. 🙂 we’ll see what happens.