Day of Fry

Back to the usual routine, slept till the lights came on, did my morning stuff, somehow didn't manage to get on the road till 8:45. AG called, he thinks he has an interview with Apple today, but he isn't sure because he thought he needed to study for it. WTF? And he sent email and voicemail to them asking to postpone it a week, but never heard back. Something fishy here.

Boss' boss had me make changes to the spreadsheet which I was going to do anyway. Just was waiting for him to say they made sense. I also shot him down on a Stupid Idea™ which would have made the thing impossible to read, which I have had a solution for since Day 2.

Found another bug in the pre-release app which Boss said was a bug in the hardware, so she had me file a bug which she assigned to the company which makes the hardware. I'm seeing almost the same bug on different hardware, so I'm not sure. But it's possible for both devices to have similar issues. Such is life in the world of digital signal processing.

Lunch was Lean Cuisine spaghetti & meatballs. Very small portion. Added some Tillamook cheddar. Pudding for dessert. Very little traffic today, no tour groups, no special events. Less pedestrian traffic than usual by the hole, too.

No break, I was busy filing that bug. Did not really need one, what with the aircon working and the bug was such that I needed to sit and watch for it to happen.

Updated one TV and ran the usual tests, and logged the results to the spreadsheet.

Car did not charge all the way last night, something burped on the charger. So after work I parked in the garage and plugged in. Upstairs the weather was great for sitting in the shade and people-watching. Interns have green badges. There was a lot of work for the security people, explaining to tourists that they can't ride the Google bikes, especially not without a helmet, and interns can't bring 16 of their closest friends inside for free dinner. But there was plenty of eye candy, and also plenty of Ingress action. I owned the dinosaur sculpture for a while. Maybe 10 minutes. Being at level 8 turns out to not be as big an advantage as I thought.

Finally went to the dessert line, put a couple of dark chocolate brownies into a coffee cup and added chocolate softserve, which was too soft to serve. But fine for what I was doing. Checked out the food trucks, one was Thai, khao mon gai, but the line was slow and long. The other was horrible faux Mexican. By then  my car was charged.

Home, it was about 7, traffic was light on the back roads and 101 was almost at the speed limit.

No mail, but in the park slot was my rent bill. Included was a letter from the manager saying that Sunnyvale has a program for people with mobility problems, the garbage collectors will wheel your bins out to the truck and back again. Just fill out a form with a doctor's note. Come to the office to get the form. Yeah, right.

Tried to print the rent check, but Checksoft's MICR font was messed up again.

Watered the gardens.

Fired up Dragon and dictated my first letter home from Thailand. It did pretty well, only took about 10 minutes to fix the typos (I need to look up the secret code for parens) and find a Baht symbol. Found something close enough.

Dinner was Boston Market beef & noodles with added Swiss and Parmesan. Ice cream for dessert. Crumbled halvah doesn't really work as a topping. Magic shell does.

Back to the PC, uninstalled Checksoft, wiped it from the registry, rebooted, re-installed and re-patched (2x) and it still didn't show the MICR line. Rebooted again and it worked.

I really need to find an alternative.

( Letter from Thailand pasted here )

Plans for tomorrow:
Photo shoot at 1 pm
Before and after TBD