PRE-FESTIVAL

Thursday, May 21, 1998

Nine days till my birthday, on May 30. Boy, was I peeved when they changed Memorial Day from that day to make a three-day weekend, when I was growing up. Now I'm usually at the film festival during that time, so we don't make a big deal of it. Sometimes I've gone for dim sum with my sister and her children.

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I was very frustrated for a while today. I was working on the demo for my boss's boss that I had started on yesterday, when I made a little change that had the unfortunate result of freezing my test machine every time I opened the page! Aggravating, because that machine is none too speedy to reboot! It takes about four minutes each time.

But I was able to undo my changes and approach the design problem in another way. The perils of using a product that's under development! On this project, I'm basically using CSS to show a fictional news site in several versions.

Then my boss's boss popped his head through the red velvet curtains again to ask for a set of button images with photo-realistic imagery on them. I didn't make much progress on this one, because the corpnet was very piggy so I couldn't reach the images I wanted to import.

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I had dinner tonight with S---, whom I met at the U-district Street Fair last Saturday. We went to Hopscotch, which I've been to before a few times. We exchanged life history information. He has also gone through a period of dead-end jobs before ending up where he is by chance, but his job seems to be boring for him. We don't share that, since I like web stuff and shipping products.

I was wearing my red rib-knit top with one of the new skirts I bought last Saturday, a cool abstract orange-red print. This was in preparation for my last night of dancing for a while, since the film festival starts tomorrow. S--- kindly gave me a ride to the Russian Center. I was pleased to see my friend Sterling. I also danced with Jeff, Mike, and Hugh, and a few new guys. I was very amused when a whole gaggle of teen-aged girls (and a few boys) showed up. The Savoy Swing club has been teaching at the high schools, and we think they urged these kids to go out dancing.