Back 2 Work, and Verizon

Up with the alarm, pretended that all was normal.

Zoe had knocked a planter off the kitchen table, dirt all over the place by the porch door. She supervised as I swept it up.

It was raining a bit as I took back roads to work - sure cut down on the bikers. Picked up breakfast, but they were out of the new drink I like, so I tried a mango LaCroix which tasted fine at first, but after 10 minutes was like battery acid with bubbles.

Got a lot of work done, ran a subset of the automation script which had failed Friday, it worked fine. After a factory reset, the Aussie device worked like a champ, so there was a lot of re-testing to do.

Interrupted that at noon, drove to the nearest Verizon store (they were under construction too!) where a tech was unable to get my AT&T phone to connect to their network. All the bits looked right, but no joy.

So I bought one of their phones, it worked great, but now I have a lot of work to do. Voicemail is set up, so is my ringtone. And webcam app. But email is not importing from backup.

Back at work, middle sister called to sing me a bad rendition of happy birthday. Baby sister sent email. So did big sister. And a friend in Oregon whose birthday is also this week.

Tons of messages on Facebook.

New phone reminded me it was manicure day. I left a few minutes early, and was taken right away. I got silver gel color.

Next door to Safeway, bought an ice cream cake.

Home, Hgl was low, so had a piece of ice cream cake.

PTI & Shark Tank, & news. Not much news, mostly the weather north of SF and follow up on the fire, and a wee bit on the shooting where we discover that the guy who liked to shoot things in his yard at all hours wasn't supposed to have guns. And the insane guy who walked out of the asylum in Hawaii was caught in Stockton. There was nothing insane about his well-planned escape, and he obviously had help. But the reporters didn't think about that.

Dinner was Healthy Choice something with a lot of potatoes, some corn & beef. Not bad. And a couple of cookies.

Took out the vacuum and cleaned up the rest of the planter dirt. Zoe ran away. So did Spook.

The cough continues. Very annoying.

Plans for tomorrow:
Doctor at 10
Work
Spend some time restoring the new phone
Maybe list the AT&T one on eBay as a locked phone
Maybe attend a talk at JPL local office

Follow-up

Started the very rainy dark morning taking mostly back roads to the clinic. Got there early enough to have blood drawn - once for hospital follow-up and once for the research data bank. Ran out of blood in my left arm during the final vial, had to be poked in the other arm. Tech said it was probably me being dehydrated.

Up to the doc's office about 10 minutes early, she was running 20 minutes late. All hospital survivors, she said. Bottom line is I am fine, weight, BP and Hgl down, lungs clear. But the she slapped a mask on me because that cough means I caught a cold. She recommended Tussin, which I had been taking with very little effect.

Onward to work, where I bricked a streaming media box installing new firmware. Drove up to the main building, the program manager for that box resurrected it, and bricked it again with the same bits I had used. He switched to a different source tree and go it going with developer code.

Took it back to the hole, and started testing. Left it finishing up Ant Man, it should be in screen saver when I get in tomorrow to run the rest of the tests.

Wanted to go to the JPL meetup, but it didn't start till 7:30, and I really didn't want to infect all those people. Also didn't feel up to 10:30 go home time on a work night. So, home, dinner, plus a tiny piece of ice cream cake. And watched football.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
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