Year: 2002

Working

Great time this weekend in Fresno at the fair, but don’t expect to hear about it for a few more days. It’s suddenly become a very busy week at work. Visualize me playing with REALLY large Excel spreadsheets and pretending I know how to do budgeting and forecasting. It’s kind of amuzing, actually, and it does sort of stimulate my inner geek…

Mozilla

I finally got around to downloading and installing Mozilla 1.1, and I have to admit that it really doesn’t suck. After the nightmare which ensued when I tried installing Netscape 6 a long while back, I was a little scared of anything vaguely related, but Mozilla actually has some nice features, best of which is the pop-up blocker (which has apparently been disabled in the Netscape 7 version), and it (unlike Netscape 6) didn’t completely destroy all my preferences upon installation. I’m not sure if I’d ever use it as an everyday browser, but it’ll be nice to have around…

My suggestion to those 27 or 28 of you who are still (for whatever masochistic reasons) using Netscape 4.x, is that you finally let it die. I find it baffling that a browser so bad has lasted so long on so many people’s hard drives…

Enough of this. It’s off to the Tonga Room for Jamie’s birthday tonight and to Fresno for the fair tomorrow…

Fall

The fog is back, all is well with the world, and there’s a distinct possibility I’ll be at the Big Fresno Fair this weekend. If I could just manage dinner at the K&W tonight, I’d be quite content right now, thanks…

Randomly Wednesday

Today’s baffling bit of email from a Planet SOMA visitor:

i am looking for a motel that has accomodations for a couple. i am requesting that the hotel room be furnished with a large round waterbed(preferably w/satin sheets)and mirored walls and everything that it entalis.

About the only response I could come up with was “How nice for you. Hope you have a lovely time”. Really, how am I supposed to answer something like this?

Hint du jour: if you ever need to go to the emergency room in San Francisco, try St. Francis Hospital on Hyde Street. I took my boss there today and, to my amazement, found that I was the ONLY person in the waiting room. I’ve never seen such an eerily calm hospital in my life…

Chafe du jour: why were there no coasters or stickers in the new Mac we got at work yesterday like their were in the one that showed up at Mark’s office?