Writing Wrongs

Already wished johnnyeponymous a happy birthday, though in different words, but for someone bigger (and louder) than life, once is never enough.

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When I got under the covers last night, rolled over onto my left side, Kaan curled up against my back, then Domino climbed up on my right side and parked there for about 15 minutes.

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A few days ago I started keeping a log of morning and evening Hgl readings and insulin dosages. Part of this was to remind me to eat dinner before 9 pm. I am still seeing no correlations. And had a low (73) at about 11:30 after our Monday morning team meeting, despite having a banana for breakfast. Fixed that with a glucose tablet and a Snickers bar.

Meeting included a good presentation by one of our non-programmer team members who has been on loan to the group upstairs, which showed how to use my favorite software to automate their user interface. I've seen their tool, it's not nearly as good, yet he says they won't convert. I hate software religions and their closed-minded fanatics.

Lunch at Carl's Jr. I don't go there often but they are the closest eatery to the office. Must remember to ask for no whipped cream on the shake. They make an excellent east coast style shake, but the whipped cream tastes like plastic.

Boss had added back into my 2013 goals something I had taken out because there was no easy way to go back and check how much of the goal I had accomplished. It was a project everyone is on, to document in our test case database where in the engineering specifications the test was written from. Sometimes it's not in the main spec, but in a design spec for a particular feature, or a marketing spec (those are outlines more than specs). I figured out a way to at least see my own test cases, but the database choked on my search. Boss fixed it, and I saw that just from two features alone I'd done half again as many as my goal. And found one more feature which was easy to add another dozen to.

Somewhere in there the admin for the loan arranger emailed asking for my latest pay stub. I know I had already emailed it to her boss, but since I had it on my work PC I sent it to her. Then the mfg rep emailed asking which loan company I was going with - pissed me off because she works next door to the loan arranger, that's who she should have asked. I phoned back and told her.

She said someone wanted to change the escrow closing date - my target is 11/30, which she reminded me is  Thanksgiving weekend. I said a week later would be fine. Two weeks even better. She said they wanted it earlier. I said no. I didn't really hear who she said wanted it earlier. I may call and ask. If it's the seller I may change my mind. I don't have to actually move on escrow week, but I also don't want to pay 2 rents for any longer than I have to.

Work. Also watched the next hour of the IPv6 presentation. Stupid Questions™ stretched 20 minutes of material into an hour. A couple of people in the class were asking questions just to show they already knew the answers. One guy kept repeating exactly what the teacher had said, but in the form of a question. The good news is that the 20 minutes was very useful information, if IPv6 ever goes viral.

Stopped off at 7-11 for two packages. One was a 2-month supply of low-sugar Quaker instant oatmeal variety packs, my favorite at-work breakfast. The other was the Uke beginner's book which the class will be using. Or at least I think it's the same one. We'll see. Class starts on my birthday.

Home, decided Costco would make me late for BASFA, and I had moon cake tins to auction. Plus it was johnnyeponymous's birthday and I wanted to see him auctioned off. I don't know why, but none of my jokes seemed to work tonight. Attendance was poor, but noisy, and several people bailed early, which made the final round of auctions a non-starter. I think I'll stay home for the rest of football season.

Plans for tomorrow:
Kaiser, serum potassium blood test (because of my latest BP meds)
Work
?? - expecting two packages at UPS

A very low key (skeleton key?) birthday. Domino started yelling at me half an hour before the alarm goes off, which was rude, so I shut the bedroom door. Did some stuff online, which made me not early for work.

There was a new build, which meant a couple of bugs to close, including one which had shown up when I automated the GUI part of my Russian buddy's new test feature. He had validated it by hand, but that's tedious. My script blows through 44 variations or what a manual test would only try 4 of, and in only about 7 minutes. So bug verified as fixed. Also was able to run a test which needed to be run first thing after updating, because the bug goes bye-bye the first time you log out and log back in again.

And there were lots of "push a button, wait an hour" tests, so I took the time to upload to FB many of the video clips featuring me acting and singing and both through the years. At least one FB friend was also in each clip. I am completely bummed that PA Players was too copyright-stupid to video Jackyl & Hyde, because there were two numbers I was in which made me look elegant and I sang well too.

There were many birthday wishes, most of them good.

No one at work knew it was my birthday, except my boss who was in meetings all morning and worked from home all afternoon, and Automation Guy who had taken the day off. He has 6 weeks of PTO saved up.

Lunchtime I went to Rivermark and The Prolific Oven, which has the best dark chocolate covered cream puffs. And pretty good split pea soup which is served with fresh sourdough baguette slices. Yum!  I was hoping to pick up a mini Black Forest cake, but they didn't have any. That's my traditional birthday cake.

After work I went to Costco to pick up both the calendars and the prints for Baskone. Also managed to spend $77 on groc.

Home in time for the second half of Thursday Night Football, but it was a low-scoring game, so not much interest.

Answered some email, played some more on FB, and looked for a place to have a birthday dinner. Oddly enough, the best choice turned out to be Red Lobster. I found one in SJ which is open till 10, and drove down there. Had clam chowder, garden salad, whole Maine lobster with seafood stuffing and rice pilaf. The lobster tail meat was a little chewy in spots, but tolerable. The claw meat was fine, and the stuffing was Nom nom nom. Good clam chowder too. Dessert was very fresh moist chocolate cake a la mode, with a candle in it, and since it was my birthday they didn't charge for it. Altogether a win. Thanks to lemmozine for the clue which got me that.

Deja something: there is no exit from that Red Lobster which lets you go directly back to 101. Both the E-W and N-S roads have medians. I chose the E-W road, since N-W is an expressway, and the U-turn was at Brigadoon Way. It had a HUGE sign hung out over the middle of the intersection, which is very strange because it dead ends into that street, one can only turn right or U-turn.


And behind the cut is mostly for didjiman
( Some calendar business stuff )
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Maybe go to PA and see the final show at the Dragon Theater. Not the final performance, but at the end of the run they are tearing out the theater. I think the plan is to remodel but I'm not sure.
Possibly the Brigadoon producer will post its cast list.