Atypical ending to a typical day

Up with the alarm. Had taken the sleep number bed down to 35 on each side, then back to 55. It took 3 second for the right side, almost a minute for the left. Something is seriously wrong here. Must call them about it.

At work by 9:05, the freeway was less stupid than usual, but still pretty stupid.

Discovered there had been another build released yesterday after I'd left. Two in half an hour. Bizarre.  So I finished the test I was running, did the update and continued to the next one.

Which took all day.

Lunch was at China Stix, wor won ton soup. They don't do it as well as the now defunct places I used to go for it. No BBQ pork, too much chicken not chopped small enough, not a lot of bok choi. Generous amount of shrimp, though. Dim sum cart with the sesame balls kept avoiding me, never got any.

After work I headed to the new Starbucks in Svale Washington Street, down the block from the new Kabul. In the underground garage I found two electric car chargers, one was a single and someone was plugged in, the other was a double with one car plugged in, but the machine thought it only was a single, so no charging. :-(

Followed up on Match.com, and once again the winks turned out to be spam, the accounts closed, and none of the matches were matches at all. Completely ignores what I'd requested. I need to go back and make them "needs" instead of just "nice to have".

There was some eye candy, and the place is open till 9. It ought to be open till midnight, maybe that will happen eventually. Note to manager: If you are open till 9, don't start putting the chairs up and mopping the floor at 8. It annoys the customers and loses business.

Home, plugged in the car (there was still some charge left), put on my Birkenstocks and went online. Checked FB and saw that there was a theater pizza gathering starting at 10:30, and it was 10:20 so I put on shoes, hopped into the car (unplugged it first) and went there. I've only been to three of them, this is thre first time there was a crowd. There was also a group from Saratoga's show at the next table, with two people I knew. Got to chat with my 2nd Aldonza, and her new husband. I'll be seeing her show tomorrow.

Home, phoned the lunar.org hotline to see if the Moffett field rocket launch was still on (it was drizzling all evening) and they said it is, but the rules have changed now that Google owns the airfield.  Bottom line is they have made it not attractive for photographers, and this month and next month will be the last times there. I was ready to hand in my dues tomorrow, but now I won't be going, and won't be renewing. Their other launch site is the other side of Contra Costa, not an option. I drove out there once, it's further than Sacramento.

Delivered was a lot of stuff. Two big cans of honey roasted peanuts, a box of Scharfenberger chocolate squares, a jar of TCHO chocolate squares, a replacement for my lunch cooler, and a box of various carnivorous plants for gnat catching. 4 D. Capensis, 3 P. primuliflora  (butterwarts), 1 D. adelae. The plants are all on the kitchen island for now, except for the biggest Capensis, which is on my desk and the wilting one which had been on the desk in on the island.

Plans for tomorrow:
Lowe's, buy some garden fencing. And some dishes for under the carnivorous plants (they need to be in 2" of water).
Re-seed the marigolds and fence the section.
Saratoga, a 2:30 performance of Jerry's Girls with at least one of the women who was at the pizza thing
Palo Alto, a sort of wake for a theater friend who died way too young of a Dread Disease last year

Adendum

During the lulls at work I ordered three broadway songbooks. And when I got home I paid $3 for and printed out music for Falling In Love Again.

Where Does The Time Go, Ms. Collins?

Busy day. Blew off the model rocket launch because of the new rules and the wind and the clouds. Instead, went to Summer Winds looking for flowers to plant to replace the marigolds. Found what I was looking for, bee and butterfly friendly, full sun, drought tolerant. They also had all kinds of rosemary and lavender, but there's already too much of that around. Also found enough plastic dishes to put under the indoor plants.

Did not find any larger plants to replace the wood chip section, so I went to Lowe's, and got some blue salvia and something called pincushions, which I had to wait for the bees to leave before putting them in the cart.

Almost bought a large honeysuckle, but was not willing to gamble $40 on it thriving.

Took those home, set them near where they would be planted, plugged in the car, had a quick lunch (corn dogs). Unplugged the car and drove to Saratoga for their very limited production of Jerry's Girls. What struck me most was the number of enormous women in the cast. I have worked on stage with some of these women, none of whom were enormous at the time. In two cases we're only talking Fall, 2012. It didn't hurt their voices, but made costuming and choreography a challenge.

I was surprised by a lot of the tunes. How did I not know that La Cage, Milk & Honey, Hollywood/Ukraine and Mame were Jerry Herman's? While the person who created the revue obviously thought Hello Dolly would bring the house down (it didn't, and the invitation to sing along was largely ignored), the woman who sang I Am What I Am from La Cage would have received a standing ovation if the director had not foolishly insisted on her running off the stage to make way for a second rate song by a second rate singer.

After the show I tried to get to where the cast was to say hi to friends and compliment the ones who had earned it, but they were already surrounded.

Next stop, Antonio's Nut House, a dive in Palo Alto, for a memorial wake for Beth, one of the Lyric Theater regulars (we did Pirates together) who died too young of some dread disease, shortly after finding and marrying her One true Love. He was there, nice guy, handsome too, and trying to take it in stride, but how can you? Spent a lot of time chatting with Dr. Ellie, a rising soprano and an astronomer at Lick. We did Babes in Toyland and I've tried to see all her shows. It's a small world, before I had a chance to ask her out, she started dating a tenor whom I had directed in a G&S show at Stanford. Also at the event was Abi, who is a techie and house volunteer for TheatreWorks, so I guess Beth did shows there too.

Home, too dark to plant the flowers, but I have all day tomorrow. Made DiGiorno for dinner. Watched the latest Magicians, and XFiles. Not sure how I feel about them straying from the UFO theme into more occult spheres. Love that they introduced a young redhead doctor FBI agent to show how much Scully has aged. She obviously spent as lot more time with makeup for this episode.

All the carnivores are in their plastic saucers, with lots of water, and are distributed around the house to where the gnats are. The one on my desk has already caught a couple.

Plans for tomorrow:
Gardening:
Plant all the flowers
Maybe fence in the plot by the mailbox
Harvest a few tomatoes
Relocate the redwood chips to behind the shed
Probably plant some seeds baby sister sent
Coffee with Janice in the evening
Take out the garbage