If I was Thinking Straight

...the dishwasher would be installed. But when the prepaid installers refused to pull out the old machine because it is hard-wired to the building, I told them to take the new one back until I could have someone install a regular outlet for the new one.

I found an appliance repair company in the HOA magazine, he said he would do the whole removal/installation, but not just an outlet. So I called Home Despot, and even though the machine was probably still on the truck somewhere not too far, they would only arrange to drop it off Friday.

I was working from home instead of taking time off, and there was actually work that got done while I was waiting for Round 2, a pair of installers to put legs on the bed frame. The sleep number mattress is too low. They arrived and were done in time for me to wrap things up at hoe and get to work before 11.

Lunch was at Panera Bread, the most bland grilled cheese sandwich ever, the pecan roll was stale, but the mango smoothie was excellent. Next time I'll stick to chocolate baked goods.

Work was shizo, I had projects on both the current and new products. New product included making one bug as fixed, but raising a possible issue as a result of the testing process. This happens sometimes, fix one thing, break something else. Or in this case, something is broken which prevents playing a video, and when it is fixed, you notice something wrong with the video, unrelated to what was broken.

Shopping spree on the way home. Michael's ISO a rotary blade replacement for my X-Acto cutting board. Online made me suspect X-acto no longer makes those, and the store had none. They had something from another brand, but it looked to be the wrong size. Left with nothing.

Bevmo next, because the wine before bed experiment was suffering from modern winemaking syndrome. Somewhere along the way, vintners decided wine needs to be dry and as un-sweet as possible. A little research told me to try sherry. Bristol Creme was at the top of the list of popular ones, and there was a madiera on sale which sounded right. Well, they didn't have the latter in stock, even though online said they did, but there was a 10 year old port which I got instead.

Lowe's, bought a new nozzle for the garden hose, since the original had started to leak.

Home, installed the nozzle, watered the carport garden to make sure it worked.

By now it is 8:30 pm and I am feeling the 6 am wakeup time. So I took a nap. Which meant making the bed. Spook "helped". By sitting on the fitted sheet in the middle of the bed, clawing at the edges as they moved. Finally got that done, set the alarm for 10 and after 15 minutes got about half an hour's sleep.

Dinner was a fried rice thing from some yuppie faux-Thai marketing company and a couple of egg rolls. Dessert was a mashed elderly banana topped with walnuts, sprinkles and honey.

Watched TMZ and some of the 10 o'clock news. Which is when the alarm went off, it was a cell phone app, cell phone was in the bedroom, and Spook was entranced. Probably sounded to her like a bird.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
1-on-1

No Camels Were Harmed in the Making of This Day

Got a very unusual FB message from a woman who was in a straight play I did in Menlo Park in the 80s, and has worked backstage and other roles in at least two other theater groups I've been in. A "we should hang out some time". The unusual part is she knows that between our schedules that won't happen any time soon. Which she mentioned when I replied that we ought to, but when?

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 Up 15 minutes before the alarm. Much easier to get out of bed and dressed (socks especially) with the taller legs on the bed frame. The jury is still out on the SleepNumber bed being more restful, but it at least gives the illusion of choosing your best softness. The full 100 setting, frankly, is about 75 if you compare it to a standard firm mattress.

I took the white protector thing off, in a few days I'll know if that made the SleepIQ thing more accurate. The "live" monitor shows a heartbeat on the side of the bed I am not on, and none on my side, so that's a FAIL.  

Lots of work at work, boss sent out a bug fix sheet with a deadline, which means people way up in the stratosphere are expecting something to ship Real Soon Now.

Had my 1-on-1, still no prospect of a new unit for me. Which means a lot of boring work on the current machine. Though I did manage to work on two features on the new machine, with the help of the team leader for the product who set up his machine for me.

Lunch at China Stix, their beef chow fun. Lots of beef, high quality and well tenderized. But twice as many noodles as I could handle. Dessert at B&R. The resurrection of the shopping center with a Target, Sprouts, Panera Bread, Habit, Peet's several other shops and services and a newly repaved parking lot has seriously boosted sales for all the original stores. B&R especially. Used to have that place to myself after lunch, now it's almost crowded.

Almost went to hang out at Batcave Starbucks after work, but changed my mind because I wanted to try to make email-able videos for Janice from some clips she had me make into a DVD last month. But I couldn't get the files sizes down without losing too much physical size.

Watched the last episode of Elementary. This one's plot was seriously convoluted, and I don't think a jury would convict. The sub-plot is about the police captain's daughter, who is a beat officer, working out of the same precinct, which I think is not allowed IRL. So they have the dual prejudice thing going, that she is female and the boss' daughter. All they need is for her to be a lesbian and secretly black, with a heavily tattooed transgendered Latino lover. Meth dealer.

Have to remember to turn the thermostat back to "heat" because at 9 pm it was so warm in here I set it to aircon.

Dinner was Meatish Swedeballs, with Girl Scout Crack Thin Mints for dessert.

Plans for tomorrow:
Glue my teeth in
Take the Baritone out of the shed and put it in the car
Work
YOTB rehearsal
Ice my lip