Spook says it's time for me to go to bed

So I'll keep this short.

Weird night - went to bed at 8:30, woke up every hour. At about 4:30 I felt like I needed more insulin, so took my Hgl reading. 70. Needed a snack.
Back to bed, woke up every hour. Stayed up at 7:30.

Started the day ladling a huge pot of chicken soup into freezable, microwave safe containers.

Got to work at about 9.  

Wrapped up a test which needed me to physically be there. Did some screen captures for the boss on our oldest model, latest release.

Lunchtime, Kaiser, picked up 90 days' worth of both insulins. Pharma tech did not believe the number of boxes was right until she checked with the pharmacist, who reminded her it was a 3-month supply, not the usual 1-month, and then did the math. I am shocked too each time.

Lunch at the new UB Mongolian BBQ on Homestead. Small shoestring budget setup, but very nice staff. the griller could use lessons - never added water.

Started fading at about 4:30, just before go-home time Boss emailed, asked me to proofread the doc which the screen shots go to. Tomorrow.

Straight home, Spook was hiding in the closet, came out to yell at me for no reason.

Went to bed, did not quite sleep but at least rested, especially my eyes, for 2 hours.

Heated a big bowl of soup, while watching the Pac12 Network 60-minute coverage of the Stanford game. Wonderful idea, all they show are the plays and penalty calls, they skip the extra point kicks, and the voice-over is only play b play with minimal color (they did point out that Barry Sanders is his namesake's son).

Dessert was some cut up cantaloupe, from Fresh & Stupid, which means it was not quite ripe.
 
Caught up on FB and LJ.

Plans for tomorrow:
Terminix 8-10 window
Work
YOTB if I'm feeling well enough
  

Marketing driven vs, Engineering driven tech companies

I forget if I have written about this yet.

There are two approaches to running a tech company:

Engineering driven. The engineers design and build a product, and sell it based on its merits. When customers ask for changes or improvements, engineering decides whether or not to make those, based on whether it fits the product, and whether it can be done. Schedules are based on when the engineers believe they can finish the product.

Marketing driven. Marketing asks customers what they want, tell engineering to build it, and sell it based on promises of future capabilities.  Marketing decides which features must go into the product, and set all the deadlines. The product ships when marketing says the timing is right.

I have worked for both kinds of companies, in tech support and QA, and by far prefer the engineering driven kind. One reason HP took a dive and is only a shadow of its former self is Carly came in and changed it from engineering to marketing driven.