Stayed way late, it didn't help

Got to work later than expected because that last exit was a mess again. 15 minutes to go less than a mile. Huge construction haulers cutting in, not realizing this is not the lane they want, then trying to escape.

Last night Spook was under the linen rack in the bedroom and Spot was staring at her from not quite the other side of the door. When I got up to pee at about 4 am, he was in my recliner and she was on the low cat tree. Woke up for real at 7:30 they were back in the bedroom.

The new Europe guy sent the login for the Argentinian STB, but before I got that far it did the promised over the air update.

Managed to do most of the smoke test, just the usual problems with tests which require a dedicated router. I gave NP my Netflix box, which is a router, because hers broke. But then she took it into the new lab, because there were finally tables in there. Messed up my testing. She also took my laptop, because it had software on it for android testing - tomorrow I'll take it back and make her install it on the other laptop of mine she has. Enough is enough.

The STB has serious issues, there is no way I would want a friend to buy one. Fortunately as far as I know I have no friends in Argentina.

4 pm, plugged the car in, after NP left for the day I took all my stuff one by one and installed it in the new lab. That'll be my office. NP seems to want to keep her desk out by Boss, and only do lab work in the lab. That's okay. Stupid, but okay.

Got everything moved by 7:30, thought traffic would be better (Eric Clapton, Cindy Lauper concert down the block) but it was horrible. Doors open at 6:30 but the concert doesn't start till 8.

Home, delivered was a small desk fan for work, and the ASUS tablet, which I won't mess with because almost as soon as I got home I discovered I had given away the spare router I was planning on setting up in the lab, so I drove to Fry's and got the cheapest dual band they had, $40. Not bad. Back home, pulled out my laptop, which was totally out of battery, plugged it in and set up the router the way I wanted it. Easy to remember IP,  SSIDs and passwords. I won't be sharing the login info.

Dinner was too much reheated frozen pizza and ice cream.

Watched PTI and also Bachelor in Paradise,  in which the guy who was sent home from The Bachelorette because one of her friends said she still "had feelings" for him is firmly coupled with that friend. She is a ditz, a southerner with an IQ measured in PSI, but she can do things with a hot dog which amused everyone. The stunt man who almost made the finals in The Bachelorette apparently got an attitude transplant, and not the good kind, and he bailed before they kicked him out. And then he came back and picked a fight and got kicked out.

All but one guy and one gal coupled up, and then they added two more women, one of them coupled up with the uncoupled guy and the other is trying to steal a guy who was in a solid relationship - and she's succeeding.

There's an episode of Below Deck Mediterranean and a sneak preview for the real Below Deck yet to watch.

Printed the rent check. Between the Nest malfunctioning and doubling my electric bill and the newly raised rent, it's a big bite.

Plans for tomorrow:
Try to get to work early
Finish moving
Get my laptop back
Install the router
Finish testing the STB
Drop off the rent check

Just when i thought things couldn't get worse

Unannounced, bozo manager invades my new lab with half a dozen engineers from Netflix to demo a way to measure audio sync with a camera. It took them more than an hour because the lab is new and only a couple of the network connections are live, and the demo people didn't really know what they were doing. And bottom line is it did not look like a real solution. They used a stock clip which had no moving lips, an artificially generated voice counting up numbers.

When I stepped out of the room they unplugged my router - I unplugged their device and put my router back in place. "Oh look, it connects" says bozo, who doesn't know that the netflix router has to connect with the netflix server, and it can take a long time.

I am seriously ready to not come back after the long weekend. But I need the $$. Well, not need, but I'd have to sell some stock to make ends meet. And I don't have much left. IRA money gets taxed, so that ends up costing more.

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Once again, out early, at work just on time. Took a long route via Central, which was pretty messed up.

Lunch was beef & grain from Safeway. Later as a snack I tried the spinach salad, which was mostly spinach leaves and a few sweet pepper slices. And a HB egg.

Also ate the two peaches/nectarines I brought, and some strawberries from the break room.

With my router in place I was able to finish the tests on the Argentina box, and gather logs from the James Bond device which has Bluetooth issues.

4-ish, plugged in the car. It only needed about an hour. The work chargers are faster than the home one. By then there were enough empty spaces that I didn't need to move the car. Stayed late again, traffic without a concert was not so bad.

Dropped off the rent check. There was a weekly card game going on in the big hall. I puzzled over one of the jigsaws in the library, but there is a reason it is 95% done.

Home, nothing delivered. Opened the ASUS tablet, it was dead, and did not charge with the NVidia charger I usually use. The Amazon questions page lied, it does not have a C connector. It needs 8 hours on its own charger to fire up. I am not amused.

Dinner was pizza again, because it's easy and $69 should go a long way. Finished another thing of ice cream. Watched PTI and Who Is The One? or whatever it is called. Lots of sexy women in bikinis, and if I was into men it would be a treat too. The drama llama has moved on to a man she is not psychotically obsessed with, and one couple was declared a Perfect Match™. There are two more, but they don't tell you who. I find that rude and unfair. The point of the show is to change losers into winners in the dating game, so they really ought to say who is doing it right.

Watched enough of the 49ers game to know they have a swiss cheese 2nd string defense. Looking forward to real games with real players.

I have a load of laundry to take out of the dryer. Shirts, mostly.

Plans for tomorrow:
Try to survive another day at work.
Will skip the beer & demos - soft tacos are the "treat" - gag me
Maybe I'll go to The pear. Maybe not, it's opening night. More $ for less polished