Of course I have a cold now

After a ferry, plane and DMV full of children, how could I not have picked up a cold?

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Got to the DMV at 9. There was a line out the door and halfway around the side of the building and it wasn't moving because the minion they posted by the door to hand out forms & clipboards decided his job was to have extended conversations with everyone. After an hour, he finally was called inside to do some actual work, and the line moved about 50 feet closer.

2.5 hours of standing in line, first in the hot sun, then in the maze queue inside the building, to get a number. The DMV posts the wait time online, but it's the wait time after you get a number. It was posted as an hour. It was closer to 2 hours. Turning in the form, answering 2 questions, providing a thumbprint and paying $27 took about 3 minutes. This all should have been do-able online. Irony is I could have renewed my license online (except it still had years left on it).

No food or drink allowed in the building, so as soon as I got to the hole I took my lunch to the break room (after 1 pm already!).

At work there was one simple new project to do, which would have worked better if the update had worked. The nextdoor engineers gave me a different box with the right build on it.

The cold was starting up, break time I took some sinus pills from the first aid box next door, and had a chocolate hazelnut iced sparkling drink.

There was a lot of eye candy at the DMV, and in the break room. Way too many babies in strollers in the DMV - people need to discover baby sitters.

The DMV trip drained the car battery so I plugged in after work (I stayed an hour late) down the block and found the break room there, had some mint tea.

Home, accumulated mail was delivered, only one piece out of about a dozen was not shredder fodder.

Took some Dayquil and a nap. Woke up just before the 10 pm alarm, had roast chicken frozen dinner & ice cream.

Processed a couple of days of Helsinki photos and uploaded them. Day 6, my trip to the skywheel & waterfront market is here.


Locks of love


Tall ships


Short ship


Today's crop


Masquerade fan photo shoot FAIL

Time to take drugs and get to bed.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Home

Cashectomies

Up with the alarm. Added Dayquil to the morning meds & put a spare pair in my pocket. My cold was getting worse, but not a huge problem. Used a lot of Kleenex®. I'm by myself in the lab, not real concerned about making anyone else sick.

Called AG, he said his Apple interview was like they wanted a robot to do their programming. He thinks they should just buy a computer. No word from them 2 weeks later. My guess is they are required to interview x number of outsiders before they can hire the insider they already promised the job to.

Continued the testing I started yesterday, thought I was done and had moved on to another TV when the project leader asked about a couple of tests which I did not think were required on his machine. Turns out it's a TV, not an STB, it just doesn't have a monitor attached. To be continued Monday.

Before leaving home I ordered a couple of neutral density filters for the Nikon zoom, one ought to show up Sunday, in time to use for the eclipse Monday morning. If the weather then is like it was this morning, we won't see a thing through the cloud cover.

Lunch was chicken a la king, cole slaw and cookies. I keep forgetting I have grapes.

Breakfast was sans bananas. The minion forgot to put them out till lunchtime.

Stayed till 6, home, napped. Spook spread herself out across the bathroom threshold. She played with her Darth Mouse toy.

Dinner was easy - I have a metric tonne of home made chicken soup in the freezer. And there were three matzo balls as well.

Processed and uploaded the rest of the travel photos.

Day 6: Skywheel & naked lady statue & market are here.
Day 7: SkyDinner, stone buildings, train station, naked men statue here.
Day 8: Viking Lines "ferry" and Tallinn, Estonia here.

 
There are 4 of these dousing the naked lady. She's pretty hot.




Sky Dinner.  I just cannot.


Sky Dinner - going up!


One of the Tallinn town wall turrets.


Homework? Writing the Great Estonian Novel™?


Interesting name...

In the mailbox was a wallet re-ordered from Amazon. Now my pocket feels normal again. Also in the mail was the replacement debit card. And a check from Chase for about $5 because it was sitting there with no activity for 90 days. Day 92 is when I used that card to pay the Helsinki hotel bill.

All the charges from Helsinki cleared, so I paid off the Chase & BofA cards. Still need to save up to pay off the Mastercard which is my Amazon click-to-buy one.

Also received the replacement Clipper card.

And a bag of saffron bulbs.

Plans for tomorrow:
If I'm still feeling stuffy, cancel the photo shoot and take the car in to have the charger checked.
Otherwise, photo shoot at noon.
Flip up the flagstones at the front of the garden. That should keep the birds from digging & making a mess.
Maybe plant the saffron bulbs in the compost pile.