Finally Thursday
Sep. 30th, 2011 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
howeirdI've reset my alarms and lights-on device from 7:30 back to 7 am, so it did not surprise me that I was surprised when the alarm went off. Pumpkin was surprised too, he was stretched out alongside my leg and made his classic "mmmmrrrrrr?" sound, which usually means "just shut up already". He also uses it when I talk back to the TV.
I fixed myself two PB&J sandwiches, added two bananas, an orange and a pickle to the cooler and got onto the freeway at 9, which is the time the commuter lane becomes open to all, so I stayed on the freeway all the way instead of slipping out to the expressway. Got to work at maybe 9:15.
Another day of long-term tests, this time they did not take much time to set up, but had to run for an hour or more. In the gaps I updated my OK Cupid profile. I had minimalized it when I was out of work, just to see if anyone would bite. No one did. So now it's wordy and says a lot about me, and while I was at it I replied to someone whom OKC said was a good match. Reading her profile, it might actually work. I would not be too surprised to get some sort of reply.
One of the things which put that into my head - way in the back of my head - is when I had lunch a few months ago with my nephew and his fiance at her parents' summer home in Palo Alto, the happy couple said they met on OKC. There is no way they would have met any other way than online. The only thing I see they have in common is cats, and each other. That's probably enough.
So, long boring day at work, but still more fun than most jobs. I got to watch TV a lot.
At lunch time, I went to the new apartment and got a copy of the floor plan with the approximate room dimensions. More on that later. Went to Fry's to buy a 15" HDTV which was on sale for $70, and was unpleasantly surprised that CA tacked on a $6 recycling fee. I don't recycle electronics, I give them to charity when I am done. It is bogus charging a recycle fee to the buyer - it should be charged at the recycling center, if at all. Also looked for a stand for the Kindle, but Fry's had nothing.
After work Target was my first stop. They had the Kindle stand I wanted, though it was a bit more expensive than expected. Still reasonable. Also found a nose hair trimmer. I wonder if the Kindle has a mirror app.
Next stop was BevMo and Milk Pail, which I've already posted about.
When I got home I took out the tape measure and measured all the significant furnishings in the apartment, scanned the floor plan for the new place and Photoshopped it to remove the fireplace which is only in top floor units, changed the balcony to a patio and added the gate, and added dimensions in inches to the ones in feet. I put all the measurements into a spreadsheet, and started to plan on where the piano would fit, but was stopped dead by the thought that the reason the piano is where it is in the current apartment is a result of where the wall outlets and cable feed is. I won't know that till Oct. 7, when I get the keys. That's a week from tomorrow. Boo, hiss.
Plans for tomorrow:
Change the litterboxes
Work
Buy more litterbox refills and a hood (one of them cracked - sunlight all summer killed it)
Take some patio stuff to the dumpster
I fixed myself two PB&J sandwiches, added two bananas, an orange and a pickle to the cooler and got onto the freeway at 9, which is the time the commuter lane becomes open to all, so I stayed on the freeway all the way instead of slipping out to the expressway. Got to work at maybe 9:15.
Another day of long-term tests, this time they did not take much time to set up, but had to run for an hour or more. In the gaps I updated my OK Cupid profile. I had minimalized it when I was out of work, just to see if anyone would bite. No one did. So now it's wordy and says a lot about me, and while I was at it I replied to someone whom OKC said was a good match. Reading her profile, it might actually work. I would not be too surprised to get some sort of reply.
One of the things which put that into my head - way in the back of my head - is when I had lunch a few months ago with my nephew and his fiance at her parents' summer home in Palo Alto, the happy couple said they met on OKC. There is no way they would have met any other way than online. The only thing I see they have in common is cats, and each other. That's probably enough.
So, long boring day at work, but still more fun than most jobs. I got to watch TV a lot.
At lunch time, I went to the new apartment and got a copy of the floor plan with the approximate room dimensions. More on that later. Went to Fry's to buy a 15" HDTV which was on sale for $70, and was unpleasantly surprised that CA tacked on a $6 recycling fee. I don't recycle electronics, I give them to charity when I am done. It is bogus charging a recycle fee to the buyer - it should be charged at the recycling center, if at all. Also looked for a stand for the Kindle, but Fry's had nothing.
After work Target was my first stop. They had the Kindle stand I wanted, though it was a bit more expensive than expected. Still reasonable. Also found a nose hair trimmer. I wonder if the Kindle has a mirror app.
Next stop was BevMo and Milk Pail, which I've already posted about.
When I got home I took out the tape measure and measured all the significant furnishings in the apartment, scanned the floor plan for the new place and Photoshopped it to remove the fireplace which is only in top floor units, changed the balcony to a patio and added the gate, and added dimensions in inches to the ones in feet. I put all the measurements into a spreadsheet, and started to plan on where the piano would fit, but was stopped dead by the thought that the reason the piano is where it is in the current apartment is a result of where the wall outlets and cable feed is. I won't know that till Oct. 7, when I get the keys. That's a week from tomorrow. Boo, hiss.
Plans for tomorrow:
Change the litterboxes
Work
Buy more litterbox refills and a hood (one of them cracked - sunlight all summer killed it)
Take some patio stuff to the dumpster
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