Not as bad as it could have been

Trestadicker day. Up early, but since I spent time last night at home doing work stuff, I left an hour late. Missed a call from AG at about 8:30. Was just in time for accidents on 101 to back up the on ramp several blocks, so I made a U-turn and started for the IFH, but got blocked out of the right turn I needed to make and ended up taking a tour of parts of Sunnyvale I had never seen before. So many Apple buildings!

Never did get on 101, took Middlefield instead, and Shoreline, which worked well because there is now a turn-onto-Plymouth lane which is the street Hole 2 is at the end of. Did not bother to go to The Hole since no progress had been made on paying for the internet line.

And as usual, delivery guy shows up there when nobody is home, no warning. We don't need those 2 TVs anyway, not till there is Internet again.

Upstairs in Hole 2, NP was there just long enough to say she had told me she was taking most of today off (she had not, but who cares?).  Missed breakfast, was able to run one test before the network started to flake. Taiwan engineer wanted to look, He suggested 1:30, so I had lunch first (beef and broccoli, mixed fruit - the mango pieces were far from ripe).

Brought him upstairs, and of course the wifi had mostly stabilized just in time. He saw minor fluctuations but blamed the environment. I had to agree. He did some in-depth checking but didn't find anything to fix. I gathered my laptops and Netflix box and walked him out. Drove to the Hole because aircon was not working in Hole 2 2nd floor cubby hole. Tried to update one of the TVs there, but something is wrong with its back panel, so no workie.

Plugged the antenna back into my Samsung and watched Bad TV, walked to the break room and grabbed a soda and a nectarine (it lived up to its name, I went through a handful of paper towels). Cardiologist called, she thinks yesterday's dizzy spells may be dehydration from the increased diuretic dose, and wants me to do another blood test next week. Good news is the echo cardiogram showed normal blood throughput, not the dire restricted flow previously theorized. She mentioned the calcification, but said it's not needing anything done to it any time soon. And she will check with the pacemaker techs to see why there has never been a second appointment. And why there have been no downloads since March.

And she agrees the echo tech is a gem.

Called Baltimore sister, filled her in on the cardio stuff. She and hubby are making a tour of minor league baseball stadiums. I think he has been to all the major league ones.

Talked till 6:30, so I headed for massage place. My usual person had desk duty tonight, it was very busy, there was about a half hour wait. The person who took me on gave me the second best massage ever. Similar technique, but not quite as adept. Close, though.

Heading home it occurred to me I have not eaten out in months, so I stopped off in Denny's for a slam with pancakes, eggs, sausage & bacon. Yummy. Service was okay at first, then the place filled up and I had to get my check at the register, after a couple was rung up.

Home, watered some of the plants. Neighbor turned off the spigot, which caught me by surprise. The hose doesn't leak, no reason to do that.

Set up the personal laptop and ran windows updates, there were several. And now it is charging because it loses charge when it isn't plugged in.

Facebooked with a couple of scoops of coffee ice cream. Am learning to hit "hide notifications" when someone comments on my comment. I stand by what I said, there's not need to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person - especially on someone else's pages.

I belong to  Peace Corps singles FB group, and the moderator set up a poll asking us to click on which country we served in. 18 comments in there were no repeats. Kind of astounding.

No TV tonight. Tomorrow I plan to watch Channel 4 news. They are local, they lost their network franchise a few years ago. So they went all-news, then when that didn't work they added major globs of crap shows and infomercials.

Speaking of news, I am amused by today's indictments. There is nothing illegal about Russians trying to influence American elections. Or Americans trying to influence American elections. All the heads of state of Europe expressed opinions during the campaign, it made no difference. The FBI needs to get a life. So does Congress.

Delivered was the latest clock/weather station. Smaller than it looked in the ads, but more readable than the big one, with actual barometric pressure reading, indoor & outdoor temps & humidity and the time is writ large enough across the top. Powered by USB so it doesn't take up an AC outlet space on my USB enabled power strip.

( Cut for politics )

Plans for tomorrow:
Change both litterboxes
3 pm screenplay reader meetup - they have an actual script to read this time
Catch up on Tivo news

Putting the Sat in Saturday

Despite yelling from Spot, I slept till 9, read till 11 and was dressed by the crack of noon.

Started with a snack - a peach. Needed more so spread the last of the 2nd to last container of chopped liver & carbonized onions on rye bread and poured a soda for the rest. Finished the 1/4 slice of black forest cake.

2 pm drove to the Rose Garden library branch in SJ, should have waited half an hour.  Made good use of the restrooms twice.

3 pm script reading meetup got underway a bit late because the authors were a bit late. I got to read a small part in the first piece, happily it was only in the first few pages, very short lines. The work was the beginning of a feature film which takes Greek mythology and places the gods in modern times, sort of. All the myths are intact, only the dialogue and costumes are updated. Hades has an office. And a helmet of invisibility. There's a new character called Shadow who may or may not be another god with an invisibility talent. Or he may be the shadow of any god whom the author wishes to have on hand at the moment.

The second work wasn't a work really, it was a summary of a proposed TV sitcom series meant to be sent to a contest. The setup is in expensive Silicon Valley's eastern suburbs, a man with a menial job and two daughters whose breadwinner wife died of cancer rents half his house, or maybe sells half his house to a Christian family from India. She (the author) gives the husband the name of David and his wife is Emma. Author obviously doesn't know anyone from India. And when several of the white guys mentioned that those were not likely names for people from India, she didn't ask the two guys from India at the table. One of them finally chimed in that even Indians born in America usually have Indian names. The Chinese guy at the table who grew up in that suburb said she would do better making it a Chinese family, because there actually are Chinese people there, and they give their kids American names to go by outside the home.

She wasn't interested in my comment that the current US Rep from that district is from India, he goes by Rohit (nickname is Ro). It would have been off topic for me to mention that the previous Rep is Japanese-American, named Mike.

There was nothing to read, and I stopped listening to the discussion when it was clear she needed far more clues than she was willing to receive.

Home, probably should have stopped somewhere because it's a neighborhood I'm never in. Too late for the Rosicrucian museum across the street. Maybe next week I'll go there instead of the meetup.

Changed both of the litterbox cartridges, put a load of laundry into the dryer for when it isn't hot outside, and another one into the washer.

Refilled all the hummingbird feeders, colored the mixture with blue & green. Similar to the Russian sage which they love so much.

Put the California state flag on its pole into the pole holder out front.

Dinner was two slices of reheated pizza. Coffee ice cream. And grapes.

Watched PTI. Two episodes recorded but one was Wimbledon instead. Also watched Below Deck, in which all three male staffers want to hook up with the four women staffers. Studly white hunk from Zimbabwe put the moves on a blonde and a brunette. Both are airheads, the blonde much moreso.

Still have Match Game and To Tell The Truth to watch, and tomorrow am recording the final soccer match. Channel 4 news time was an infomercial.

Spent an hour hanging up 2 weeks' of t-shirts, made the bed first. Spook came into the bedroom briefly, but ran back under the livingroom table when she saw Spot. But this is the first time since Spot arrived that she came into the bedroom. 

Plans for tomorrow:
Put away 2 loads of laundry
Spray some lube on the piece which allows the flag to rotate freely in the wind
5 pm coffee with Janice in MV
FF through the soccer match
Catch up on game shows