Wednesday

The day started way too early bringing Pumpkin to the vet for a follow-up exam. He lost another half pound in a week. The vet said his mouth is healed well enough to put him back on real food, so when I got him home I put out the dry food tower and he planted his face in it. He was still eating when I left for work.

Work was busy, in a boring way. There was a bug to verify which needed me to build by hand 96 multicasts, one by one, with a couple of tweaks to each one. 90% was done by writing one line of code and changing one element in it each time, but one setting doesn't have a code, so I had to tweak each one in the GUI. A couple of hours later, I ran the test, it failed, and I looked at the bug to see which build had the fix, and it was the one we have not been given yet. :-(

Lunchtime, returned the phone to Costco, gave the excuse that working for Moto I can get a better deal at work. Full refund, but they said Verizon would still charge the activation fee.

After work, home, fed the cats some canned food to go with the dry, waited till rush hour was over and went to the Verizon near where I used to live because I didn't like the hostile attitude at the one closer to work. Both are the same distance from my apartment, but the one where I used to live is a straight shot on the freeway, the other is surface roads & lots of long stop lights.

Waited for 15 minutes in the queue, a very pro-customer rep helped me get the Moto phone for less than Costco price (they had a keep-the-customer-from-AT&T incentive program), a free cover, an extended battery for same price as online discounters, and a offer to send a buy-back package for the HTC phone. He also put the SIM and 32GB SD card from the HTC into the Moto. Total win.

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I have been sleeping better at the new place. Usually wake up once at about 3 am, then at 6:30. The bedroom is darker and quieter than the old place, and there is no middle school next door with loudspeakers blaring. This has made me stay in bed longer after waking up, sometimes napping till 8-ish, and getting to work on the later side of the "before 10 am" window.

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Did most of the laundry. The bed quilt fits into the washer with room for two more.

Thursday

Caught up on sleep. Work was as usual. Lunchtime trip to Santana Row and walked into Crate & Barrel by mistake, looking for stuff which was in The Container Store next door. C&B did not have anything in the way of bedroom furniture for less than $1,000.

Container store took half an hour to decide because there were so many possibilities. I was looking for auxiliary t-shirt storage. Narrowed it down to two possibles: (1) colorful plastic stacking drawers at $20 each, judging from their height I would need 8. (2) plain white stacking wire racks which unstack into a pile about a foot high, $11 each, I would need 6.

I would have preferred (1), but getting them to my car, and the $160 price was daunting. Went with (2) because of the portability, price, and the fact that I have had a set of these for years which were used for patio storage and now are storage room racks.

Back to work, I snacked on stuff I brought - banana, apple, pickle, apple turnover - in lieu of lunch.

Home, Discover card arrived. Credit limit is lower than expected, even for a 0% card, but still workable. I may balance transfer my AMEX balance. The 3% transfer fee is less than the interest, I think. Will have to do the math. Have till 11/20 to figure it out.

Already had set up an online account, but needed the card # to set up in Quicken, so now that's done.

Gave both cats their traditional after-dinner treats. Domino gets whipped cream, Pumpkin gets anti-plaque crunchy treats. He vacuumed those up pretty quickly. Speaking of which, I got out the carpet cleaner and cleaned up some cat barf in the study. Oddly enuf, when I'm doing the cleaning it doesn't look like it is quite clean, but the next day it does.

Apartment maintenance did not pick up the moving boxes I'd left outside the apartment, apparently the front desk did not get the word out.

Plans for Friday:
Work
Lowe's for a new desk lamp for work and heat lamp for the apt. bathroom.
Reilly & Maloney concert in Palo Alto.