Is it Friday Yet?

Yesterday felt like it should be Friday, today doubly so.

Up too late reading, stayed in bed till 8, somehow got to work on time, and did the usual routine there.

Tried to update the TV which the mfg tech resurrected, but it didn't recognize the USB drive's files as upgrade files. It thought it was a media drive. Emailed the tech, and long story short, the files I had were for a newer TV, and the one he restored couldn't repro the bug I was chasing anyway. Six tries and some deep email plunges later, I found a TV and files which matched, and started trying to reproduce the bug - and discovered two things:
1. The test video was very racy
2. A much more serious bug, easily discovered by customers.

Here's the racy clip (not safe for work except. apparently, where I work):

That took all day. Lunch was Lean Cuisine Korean beef, artichoke hearts and I think I skipped dessert because Mark Twain's writing was making me late. I am amazed at how well his language holds up more than 150 years later.

Still no work on the HVAC. If no one shows up tomorrow, facilities gets a nastygram. It was very humid, temps "only" got up to 90 outside but it was stifling.

Still having a bad run of luck with solitaire, it took several hands before I won.

Home at 5:45, too late to go for a manicure (last call is 6).

Turned on Tivo, intending on watching The Orville, but instead of the premiere of this comedy I have been waiting weeks for, local Fox News preempted it to show 30 minutes of hurricane damage on the other side of the country. The new may have been pushed late for Monday Night Football. Maybe.

So I installed the Fox app on the tablet, fired up the BT headphones and watched it on there, after a way too involved free sign-up. Tried to cast it to the NVidia, but it lost the aspect ratio and I couldn't fix it so, back to the tablet. And the app kept timing out and losing its place, skipping ahead. And it plays 5 commercials at every break. I could do without hearing the yeast infection one 10 times.

I really liked the show. I knew Seth would be good, but the whole cast are winners. Nice to see Victor Garber in a fitting role. Special effects are excellent, lots of species, major make-up/masks. etc. Good script, well directed and edited, technically super. Looking forward to Tivo catching it next time, so I can FF past commercials.

Watched/listened to the Giants/Cowboys game from yesterday. Or maybe it was Sunday. Good to see a Manning get trounced. Never liked Eli much.

One more football announcer peeve: "give" is a verb. There is no such thing as "the give is to number 45". It's a hand-off. Or you can say "the QB gives the ball to..."

Plans for tomorrow:
Work - maybe Boss and I will sync
Svale library 6:30 stupid-assed table scraps recycling program explanation where I intend to rise heck. Keeping table scraps in a container in the kitchen for a week is downright unsanitary. God gave us disposals for a reason.

And It's Only Wednesday

Up at 5 to pee, got back to sleep so deeply that the 7:30 alarm & lights were a total surprise.

Very humid, but contrary to the weather cretins' forecasts, it did not rain last night. No lightning either.

At work about 9:15, the last 10 minutes waiting for cars to get out of my exit-only lane.

Grabbed breakfast. Several people in the break room working, or pretending to.

The hole was muggy, but bearable, with the window open.

Email to run a test on a new build of the James Bond unit, spot check showed they did not fix what they said they fixed. Made it fail more consistently, which actually is a good thing. It shows they are in the right part of the code.

Lunchtime surprise - the asshats somewhere at corp turned on the magnetic door lock on the front door, which needs a lot of encouragement to open from the inside, and is impossible from the outside without a key card, which I don't have. Had to walk around to the back door to get in after lunch.

Some cute tiny women in the break room today, but they didn't stay long. Tuna noodle casserole.

Spent the rest of the day slogging through the test, to be continued tomorrow. 

5:30 had to fight my way out of the building. Very slow drive to Sunnyvale Library, but got there early for the 6:30 presentation. While I was waiting, the presenter, whose harebrained idea the table scraps recycling was, asked me if I had any questions. I asked how to opt out. Snot possible, he said. They have spent megabucks to give us new split-cover garbage bins and a fleet of trucks to handle them. 19 cents a month added to our garbage bills, which he doesn't think is a tax.

They had a slick Youtube video, and stats which showed clearly that mobile home parks were an utter failure during the 9-month beta test, Why 9 months, not a full year? Nobody asked. I just sat in the back being amazed at how one man was able to make this stupid idea happen. They will be rolling out the new bins over the course of 7 weeks, but he did not have a schedule he could share. He expects everyone to leave their current bin out at the curb all day and overnight on garbage day for the next 7 weeks. Idiot.

The beta program had a 73% participation rate over 9 months and 500+ households. I'd bet real cash dollars that by the end of the test it was way lower. And the high number is a function of the old psych 101 axiom that people always support a new program if they are given special attention.

The presenter and his sidekick kept taking questions long after they became repetitive, I left at about 7:45.

On the way home, I saw BofA to the right just after I got stuck in the left turn lane, which had a red light forever. U-turn light was even longer. Next U-turn was not as long. It took three swipes of my card to open the door to the fancy new ATM lobby, all 4 stand-up ATMs and the three "teller assist/wheelchair accessible" ones were out of service.



Next stop was my favorite low-cost gas station, they were out of unleaded.

Next stop, BofA closest to home, got my cash and then drove home.

Dinner was Banquet chicken drumsticks and Green Hornet Giant corn on the quarter cob.

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Email this morning from someone whose name didn't match her email address, asking if I was the one to talk to about my web page's theater links page. I replied that yes, I was, but it's a personal web site dealing with theater in the south bay, so let me know if your question is about that. Quick reply saying she was off to a meeting, and would send more info later. As if I cared.

After lunch, email from her pimping a site in NYC totally unrelated to theater, and pretty much useless for anything else. It claims to be a search engine for real estate titles and such, but the search engine returns nothing. I sent email saying she's an idiot, get off my lawn.

Watched PTI,  enjoy it more when both of the regular hosts are there, which was not the case this time.

Today's find at work, on an app called Haystack TV, the sports channel has a program called The Fumble, which features a single sexy young woman presenting sports gossip. One spokesmodel per episode, but several are rotated in during the day.

Also watched some more I Can See Your Voice/Thailand - today's episode featured three noisemakers and three astoundingly good singers.

I especially like the one at 33:31

Love her outfit too.

And the final performance made my eyes leak. Some backstory - the format is there is a special guest star famous singer who may offer to do a duet with a contestant whom she hasn't heard sing. This one was so good she was given a solo encore. FF to 1:10:05.

Plans for tomorrow:
Drop off NFLShop package at PO
Work
Finish up the test, start another.
Make a manicure appt for 6
Manicure at 6
See the play at The Pear at 8