Two churches in one day

Keeping it short at almost 1 am.
This morning was an early wake-up, and as suspected there was no need to RSVP for the postal service workshop. It was in the all purpose room/gym of the school at the local Catholic church. It was an okay half-hour presentation which walked us (200 or so) through the basic parts of the test. The postal managers who gave the presentation claimed that everyone has to pass the carrier exam to get any job at USPS, but that sounds like a crock. They had left a print out of the material on each chair, and apologized that the ppt presentation was not given because they could not figure out how to hook up the computer. The room definitely is built for it.

The after-presentation questions were interminable, and may still have been going on when I left after half an hour of them. Mot of those had been answered in the talk.

Home by way of Target, where I got a sponge on a stick so I could treat the mosquito bite on my back, and also some topical drugs for the bee sting. And an electric can opener, because my manual one died.

Tested it on a can of minced clams, made clam dip, and lunch was chips & dip & milk. Target also had a good price for 2% lactose free, but I only had room for one.

Watched some football, napped a little, tried to get Spook to stay on my lap but got tired of fighting her after 10 minutes. The new harness was also a non-starter. She is completely scared of it.

Uploaded all my Thai 1975-77 pix to Google photos, and started the painful task of creating albums from them.

Found a couple of jobs to apply for.

Booked a lot of faces.

6 pm headed to Campbell for a karaoke meetup. Someone got the great idea of using her church's superb sound system and main chapel, so we could have a civilized session. It was excellent. Friendly, no pressure, I was able to lurk for most of the evening, but at one point late in the game they played a tune meant for someone who had already gone home, and it was one of my favorite Herman's Hermits tunes, End of the World in my key so I put on my stage voice from my seat and the MC put a mike in my hand. They had me do Piano Man later when they ran out of volunteers. Out of the dozen or so participants, three of the men and three of the women (including the MC) were very good, the rest were either volume or holding-a-tune-challenged. Everyone had fun, especially as it ended in a sing-along of a few tunes we all knew.

Home, made a couple of small frozen dishes. Grapes for dessert. Caught up on TMZ.

Plans for tomorrow:
Not much.

Just when I thought this was going to be an early journaling night

I woke the PC up from sleep mode at 9 pm, and it took till 11 to install the latest Windows 10 update. Without asking. Boo, hiss.

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Slept till 11, waking up every three hours or so. At about 10 Spook head-butted my hand, which I have learned is her way of saying "it's time for treats". I went back to sleep. She went back to the cat tree and curled up.

Noon-ish, I used shower time to try CLR on the glass shower doors. It did not make them any cleaner. Scrubbing bubbles does a slightly better job, and smells less caustic.

By noon it was already 86°, I decided to stay inside with the aircon at 74. The only outside time was a minute to unplug the car, about 5 minutes in the evening to take the garbage/recycle bins out to the curb, and another 5 minutes to water all the gardens. The temp outside the house stayed between 93 and 97 all afternoon, cooled down to 92 by an hour after sundown.

I watched the Seahawks destroy the 49ers on DVR delay, and was highly amused by this ad:

It was a main sponsor of the game, ads at almost every break. The amusement is the Seahawks' first star quarterback was Jim Zorn, in their early days from 1976–83, second string in 1984 and he returned twice to be on the coaching staff. He does have a son, Isaac, who is a star lacrosse player, a senior, at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg PA.

Lunch during the game was the last of the chips & dip, and two slices of reheated pizza.

Did my job search stuff, facebooked, checked out the USPS careers page and there is nothing in CA except carrier jobs.

Dinner time coincided with the Cowboys stuffing the Bears, on DVR, fast forwarding past ads and muting the sound when the commentators went all philosophical on us. Call the game, jerkoffs. They also had severe problems showing their sidelines bimbo when she had something to report. 7,580 cameras and they couldn't point one in her direction. And worse than that, they kept showing the same cheerleader. Okay, the cheerleader has killer abs, so I shouldn't complain that much.

Watched an episode of Penn & Teller Fool Us while the PC updated. I love that they ditched their original dull as a doorpost British host for the amazingly pert and perky artist formerly known as Willow on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Plans for tomorrow:
Maybe NOVA will call with an appointment with a training counselor. I apparently am entitled to 6 more months of unemployment $$  and tuition if I enroll in some kind of career training. I filled in a request this morning.
Depends on the weather, whether I go anywhere else.