Movie Night

Up early, out early, AG called just as I was getting out the door. He wanted to talk about 9/11 so I let him, couldn't seem to change the subject.

Traffic was bad until we passed the accident, then it was full speed ahead the rest of the way. Could have plugged in the car, but it was only down about 1/3, plenty of juice to get home on.

Plowed through the rest of the required tests, found one bug, but it was a bug in the test not in the TV being tested. Boss added a nastygram to my bug report suggesting the test should not be there at all.

My final email said "ship it".

Lunch was Safeway beef & broccoli & potato chunks, there were no good alternatives in the fridge.

Watched a couple of storm chasers on Twitch, one in NC whose feed went down hard in the middle of a storm. The hurricane isn't even close to them yet. Moved to a chaser who streams every afternoon on his way home from work, clear blue skies wherever he is.

Played some Mahjong.

Still reading The Fifth Season at lunch and before bed. It's awkward in many spots, and she's going out of her way to include just short of graphic sex. I don't think she knew what a 3-some does when she wrote that scene. It's clear that at heart she is a hetero monogamist. And it's still as much mythology-fi as it is sci-fi.

Just before EOD NP asked me to run the automated tests on the TV, her TV was being unkind.

Stayed late reading, because showtime was 7:40 and the theater is only 3 minutes away. Got there an hour early, had the theater to myself for the first 20 minutes. Reserved seating tends to do that.

Searching is a movie about a widower whose daughter goes missing. She left her laptop behind, and they show how easy it is to crack the social media accounts if you have their computer, except it isn't. It is a very powerful movie in places, but Dad is over the top here and there. It's set locally, the local ABC affiliate allowed their web site and news set to be used. They also use Google Maps, and some of the action allegedly takes place by a lake off Hwy 152. I'm pretty sure that lake doesn't exist, and I know 152 isn't as close to  Silicon Valley as they say it is in the movie.

Bottom line, this flick will be best viewed on a Mac using your favorite streaming media app when it's released to that market. Seeing it on the big screen is a waste.

Home, Spook meowed at me from the kitchen window. Good to see her there. Nothing delivered, in the mail was only junk and my mortgage statement. My paper plates are overdue.

Dinner was 4 White Castle cheeseburger sliders and the rest of the mint chip ice cream.

Watched PTI, and half of Bachelors in Paradise. In the latter, a new guy comes on site who would be a great match for The Witch, but he is single because he cheated on his date during a previous show, and two of the women pull the Witch aside to warn her, and she was confronting him when it was time for me to pack it in for the night.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
See how the automated tests went. I may need to re-run the failed ones.
Home

Colombo Time

I forgot to mention that one of the cow-orkers of the Sikh I told to get lost last week called, they desperately want to place me at Oculus. As a vendor, not as a contractor. He said he would email me a choice between hourly or annual paid. But he hasn't.

So maybe here we go again.

Played?

So the guy who called yesterday to lure me back to that vendor job at Oculus didn't send the email he promised. It was supposed to have their benefits package and annual vs. hourly salary offers.

7:30 alarm took me by surprise, I'd made a pit stop a little after 6, went back to sleep. Picked up my tablet to see where Spook was, and Spot jumped up on the bed and plopped himself next to me.

When I went to sleep, Spook was under the linen rack and Spot was on the floor on the other side of the door.

Work was okay. Finished parsing the crap TV automated tests, found yet another test fail (the test was bad not the TV).  Set that beast aside and went back to the German STB to run the YouTube tests. It didn't handle 4K well. But other than that it was okay.

Lunch was a Google ham cubes & blue cheese salad. I actually like those. Better than the White Castle mini sliders I'd brought.

Plugged in the car at 4-ish, it was charged by 5, much faster than the display said. In related news, my commuter lane tags apparently are being revoked in January. Bummer. Looked into leasing a Chevy Bolt, but it looks like I can't afford one. Almost twice what I'm paying too much for on the Ford. But that's for a 2019, and I'd be fine with a 2018.

On the way home got to wanting to restock falafel. So I detoured to the one store which I knew had it, it was a combo India/Arab/Mexican grocery. But it is now only Indian, where there once was falafel there are 47 kinds of samosas. Halvah is also gone, though they still have baklava. Left empty-handed. Maybe I'll stop at the falafel place near work.

Mortgage company sent a note reminding me about the leap to 8.1%, they included a phone number to call to talk about fixing that.

Dinner was baked chicken thigh & mixed veggies. Popsicles for dessert.

Only had time to watch the last 2 episodes of Bachelor In Paradise,  in which too many couples were LJBFed, two got engaged, including the guy who was a total putz on the last Bachelorette. To be fair, he started well, but be-putzed himself little by little until he was sent home. Two couples who broke up on Paradise got back together at the wrap-up show.

Refilled the hummingbird feeders, three birds were fighting over nothing when I got home. Also changed out the litterboxes, but not before Spot peed on a throw rug by the carport door and ruined it.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
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