CPAP, the Sequel

Back to the Bay Sleep Center near El Camino Hospital, this time for an 8 pm appointment. Instead of the cute young woman tech this time it was a middle-aged Filipino. Nice guy. While he wired me up we had a chat comparing the price of hookers in Manila to the ones in Bangkok. He was surprised how expensive Bangkok was. Manila sounds like Bangkok did in the 70s.

He measured me for a mask, we went with the full mouth+nose variety since I snore. It was comfortable enough, not nearly as claustrophobic as the ones Kaiser had given us. He started the machine at a low pressure, and did not ramp it up much overnight, so it was not like breathing into a hurricane like the previous machine. I took an Ambien beforehand, but it didn't help me get to sleep. I was comfortable enough, and tired enough ( the previous night I had trouble sleeping due to an ear ache), but just didn't doze off.

When I did it was for most of the night. Bedtime was about 9 pm, I woke up once at 4:30 or so. Decided I didn't need to pee that badly, since wake-up time was 5:30. I was up for good at 5:40, tech came in to wake me 5 minutes later. When he removed the tube I could feel how much pressure was being pumped in, more than I thought.

I hate to say it, but I could work with this machine, if the results are enough of an improvement. It is definitely better than the Provent inserts.

When I woke up I was a little out of it, I blame the Ambien. By the time I had answered the check-out questions and gotten dressed I was good enough to drive.

It was raining a bit. And very dark.

Results from my doctor in about a week. We'll take it from there.

Humpty Doody

Very nothing day at work.

Yesterday we had a 90-minute training session which went > 2 hours because the demo guy's machine did not have a standard VGA output for our ancient projector, and the company firewall kept him from remote connecting from one of our machines. We've run into this before, we really need to upgrade the projectors.

And two of the team members wouldn't shut up and listen, they kept asking questions about stuff the presenter had not gotten to yet. And other people in the room were having their own arguments. It was not pretty.

Today's adventure was writing some test cases at the request of the head of the hardware engineering group for a feature I'm responsible for, which we don't have the equipment to do. And which I don't think any customer would come close to needing in real life. Boss is trying to get the nice man to see the light.

Lunchtime Automation Guy and I went for Thai lunch, but the place was closed due to a family emergency, so we walked over to the sushi place. I had something called Brian's Roll which was excellent - it was 7 different types of sushi wrapped around a pair of tempura shrimp.

After work I picked up my 3-month stash of insulin at Kaiser.

Will catch up on Tivo tonight.

Received the SF Giants pleather jacket I'd been waiting for, and it is gorgeous, but too big. Sending it back for a 2X.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Football