Missing Day

Stayed inside all day, except to get the laptop out of the car in the morning so I could clean the screen and the keyboard; and going out to get the junk mail in the afternoon. Not all junk, there was a Christmas card from an east coast friend with this year's picture of his family.

Procrastinated a lot by having breakfast, my meds, a shower and some celery. Watched some Restaurant Stakeout  which always boils down to lack of management, easily fixed. I'm waiting for him to find the one with health code violations or a chef who can't cook.

The only real plans I had for the day were to clean the laptop, and to take the 502 slides out of their boxes of 50, and put them back into the binder sleeves. And then pull the next 500 and put them in the 10 boxes, sans the old Costco bar code stickers.

I set up in the livingroom on two TV tables, and just cranked away as the TV blared. Took a lunch break between phase I and phase II. After 500 slides were packed, I saw there were only 21 slides left in the binder so I put them in an 11th box, figuring to have the order split into 2 DVDs (they only hold 500 slides, maybe 505 on a good day). But then I looked at my binders in the office and there is one more I forgot about, which looks like it has 150 in it. So I'll make that a final batch after today's are processed.

While I was doing this, and then online annoying people on FB, Tivo was recording the Hawaii bowl, which I eventually watched, skipping the commercials, and the halftime crap, and then went into triple FF as it was obvious Fresno State was going to continue being slaughtered. They just never showed up. I don't know if it would have helped them to have their cheerleaders in 2-piece tube tops and mini-skirts like the SMU cheerleaders.

Kaan is being strange today, he wasn't interested in his canned food treat. Domino was, I had to get out the spray bottle to chase her away, but she'll overcome that fear soon enough.

I finished the egg nog, but that's really a NYE thing for me. I'll pick some up later in the week. Also need to get my nails done, maybe Wednesday.

Photoshopped a picture I'd taken at the Penzance police station and made this for FB:


It came to me in a dream, I woke up at 5 am and punched the idea into Evernote, then went back to sleep.

In that same dream was a serious bug report to file Wednesday, I emailed myself at work from my cell phone. I don't think I've filed this particular bug yet, will have to look.

Boss posted pix of his flooded street in Fremont, but it isn't even close to as bad as his flooded street last time he was in Phichit, Thailand.

Plans for tomorrow:

Field trip: check to see if the little Chinese place on Maude is open.
Maybe see a movie.

Nap Time

Woke up soon after the alarm went off, failed at procrastinating for the most part. Kaan and Domino were both on the bed when I went to sleep, both were gone when I woke up, but Kaan joined me later while I was watching TV in bed. The bedroom Tivo has some stuff the livingroom Tivo doesn't.

Checked the usual stuff online, saw from a johnnyeponymous tweet that Match Game marathon was happened, so I re-added the game show network to my channel list and watched from the recliner. Somewhere in there Kaan parked himself on the arm of the recliner, but he is too wide and was holding on with both front arms. Finally he curled up on my thigh with my arm around him and went to sleep.

At about 12:30 I was getting antsy, started thinking about places to go for lunch. Realized 99 Ranch Market would be open, and they had great food. For those who don't know, 99 Ranch is the unlikely name of a chain of Chinese supermarkets. They are the size of a Safeway, without the pharmacy section. Instead they have a Chinese deli with an array of cooked food to go or eat there. In the main store I bought three sheets of frozen dim sum, then headed for the deli, ordered a whole roasted duck (chopped) and 2 lbs of honey BBQ pork, but they were out of pork and asked me to come back in 10 minutes, they were making another batch. Back to the main store, got a 1-lb can of crab meat on sale, a couple of cans of coconut milk drink and a can of baby corn. Ducked into the produce area to see if there were any Asian fruits, but there were none. However, they had very large limes for 26 cents each, so I bought 8. The place was packed, and like most Chinese groceries the aisles are not wide enough for 2 carts to pass, and the whole live fish/butcher row is chaos. It took me more than 10 minutes to get back to the deli, where they were about to give me up for lost.

Thought about having lunch at one of the many Asian places in the shopping plaza, but wanted to get the frozen stuff home and into the freezer. Which I did.

Watched some TV as I made and ate BBQ Pork on seashell pasta. Switched between a NatGeo marathon of unusual animal friendships and something called "caught on camera" which is mostly about rescues.

It's a little after 4, there is no football today, I think I will flop onto the bed, read a chapter or two of Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess)'s book Let's Pretend This Never Happened, until I fall asleep. Or rather, until I put the book down and try to take a nap. It's not a book one is put to sleep by.

I will probably stay inside the rest of the night. Not very hungry, and there's enough for dinner for 2 weeks.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work