Long Day

Work was mostly struggling with an outdated version of MSIE, which in the end was a red herring because our app runs in Java. Bug closed.

Tomorrow I'll flip some automation test scripts upside down, for when engineering fixes a new feature to be on instead of off by default.

Lunch was at a Pho place after a trip to Fry's to get a CF card reader for work.

After work I went home for a little while, just needed to look up a massage place to see how late they were open. I haven't been there since I moved, because they were already a bit of a drive from the old place, and now it's almost double.

Went for a massage, impressed the therapist with knowing one of her favorite Chinese pop songs from the 70s.

IHOP was on the way home. They don't advertise it, but when I checked in on Foursquare the phone said they had free wifi. So I went to the car and got the new laptop, but it was not able to maintain a connection. This also happened to me at Denny's, I think maybe the laptop has a problem. At home with my solid N router it works fine. I'll have to call Toshiba.

Two more of my photo shoots on meetup.com have been postponed. I un-RSVPed and asked for refunds.

Plans for tomorrow:
work
?

Solid Status

Today work was an adventure in team building. Long story short, by the end of the day I was leading a team of me + 4 in a very small project to adjust a handful of automated test cases to comply with the new spec. Only to discover the new spec is wrong.

Lunch was at Carl's Jr., on the theory they have wi-fi. My phone worked fine, but the ultrabook refused to find the gateway to the Internet. It was able to connect to the router, but not beyond. So I read more of Water For Elephants, which continues to fascinate me. what a splendid piece of writing!

Took the laptop into work, got onto the guest wi-fi network, and it worked fine. So it was Carl's and not the new ultrabook at fault. Nice to know. Right now I'm at Starbucks, no problem getting on the network here either.

After work I headed to Microcenter, to buy a bigger Solid State Drive (SSD) for this thing, and ended up also buying one for the netbook. I think I'll practice on the netbook first. I also bought some copy software, and maybe this weekend will try it out. It's a roundabout process:
 
- install the copy software on the machine
- copy to a backup drive (like my 1Tb network drive)
- replace the drive with the new SSD
- restore from the backup drive to the SSD

The netbook has a regular HDD, an SSD will make it even more portable, and extend th battery life while making it faster too. The Ultrabook has a 128 GB drive, it's already half full, the new drive is 240GB.

Also bought a card reader which says it is compatible with Linux. Still trying to fix the CF card at work.

And there was something else, too. Or was there? Maybe not. Oh yeah, a netbook sized USB wireless N adapter, just in case the problem at Carl's was the ultrabook after all. 

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
??