As of Monday I was back up to 288.2. I haven’t been exercising at all, and I’ve been having a lot of take-out and last-minute foods.

As of this morning (Weds) I am 284.8.

Some highlights:
Woke up at 7:00 despite setting alarm for 5:00 (turns out I had set the “Monday-Friday” alarm)
Mad rush to get to SFO in time. Split the party so we could check in bags and park at the same time.
Made it to the gate in time for the lady to say “I sure hope you are the Connor party”
Pretty uneventful flight
Found out there is no shuttle to the resort (well, there is but it costs about the same as a cab ride)
Took a cab to the resort
Saw large fields of lava rocks and a lot of “Hawaiian Graffiti” (white rocks brought from the beach and arranged to spell names on the black ground)
Got settled in at resort and had a burger from the cafe
Walked down the road about 5 min to see Hilton Waikoloa and dine at a good, very expensive Chinese restaurant at hotel

Plans for the week
Rent a car, ASAP
Run some errands and get some groceries so we can eat in the room (full on kitchen)
Try to make it to the observatory tonight (the visitor center, probably not the summit)
Tues we will probably drive clockwise around to Hilo, breakfast at Ken’s, maybe see Volcano, and come back
Luau planned for Wed eve. Wed. we also will attend a timeshare upgrade presentation.
May take a Circle Island tour on Thurs or Fri to see the typical tourist sites
May take a stargazing tour Thurs or Fri if we want more telescope action.
Returning on Sat.

Someone just friended me, but it’s hard to tell if the journal in question is run by a real person. We have no friends in common, and the journal was created today. 1 entry was posted in it (which I can’t see, despite being a friend) and the new journal’s 85 friends have nothing much in common other than being all from San Jose CA.

Anyway, if this new friend is you, comment here or email me so I know you’re a real person.

Whether or not the new journal is owned by a real person or a robot, I may go ahead and friend some of the other friends, who seem to have similar interests. Even if the mystery journal is not run by a real person, the other friends of mystery journal appear real enough.

It’s a Monday. I was very tired this morning so I ended up sleeping later than I planned – I got up at 8:30 instead of 7:00, skipped the shower, packed a lunch and hauled my butt to work. I thought about calling in sick because my knee really hurts today, and I’m having a little trouble getting around. Traffic was light, thankfully. I got here a little before 10:00, but I somehow doubt anyone will even notice.

The funny (ironic, sad) part of the story is that today is a HOLIDAY and I’m now alone in a virtually empty office. I realized what happened when I pulled into the empty parking lot at 9:45. It’s not even that I didn’t know it was a holiday… I was reminded of it Weds. Thurs. and Fri. of last week. So I have no excuse other than “I’m L4ME” for being here.

However, now that I am here I might as well work on some things. This week is going to be tight and I will have to scramble a bit if I am to finish everything before going on vacation next week. I figure I will stay at least 2 hrs, maybe 4, depending on how excited I am about the automation stuff I’m working on.

So yeah. I’m here, for now :)

Why yes, my commute *does* suck, why do you ask?

And no, “bad” is not quite accurate… “soul draining” is probably more correct. I really have to move.

I took CalTrain into work today (actually light rail+cal train). It takes about two hours (driving takes about 1).

Probably won’t do this every day, but maybe I could do 1 day a week? That sounds do-able. This particular method was: Light rail (Berryessa, Tasman, Mountain View); Caltrain (Mountain View, San Carlos); Shuttle (San Carlos, Island Dr). Leaving from the first light rail station at 6:09 makes this a 1h 33m trip, while leaving later than that would take more (1h 49 min, up to 1h 57m). (Add about 10 min to those for walking from the shuttle to work The cost is 5.75 each way. Other options were pretty much all over 2:20 and mabye 2:50, for similar or more cost. I looked into but ultimately rejected: Lt. Rail to Caltrain by way of downtown SJ, lt rail by way of Tamien (South San Jose), driving to Caltrain and parking, taking a regular bus to CalTrain, and even an express bus going to Palo Alto from my house, then walking (from El Camino at Page Mill) to California St. station.

One annoying thiing was missing the office-to-train shuttle, which usually means waiting 1 hr for the next one. Other than that everything seemed to go OK. The commute is longer, but I have some free time to think about my week and plan for things to come. (Or listen to music which is what I did, mostly)

ok v. tired now. must sleep

I sent the following abuse complaint just now. (This is probably only interesting to folks who read certain comic feeds and like clicking on the comments link to see what other LJ users are saying about the comic.)

I enjoy reading syndicated feeds and usually having comments on them is a good thing, because I can chat with other users who read the same feed. However, user “jassalol” has figured out a loophole in this system – it is basically a community with no maintainer and he feels he has the “right” to post whatever he wants in it.

This occurs daily across several feeds. By his admission (check his userinfo) he posts “BOOBIES!!” *daily* on on apod, softerworldfeed, questionablerss, getfuzzy_comic2, pb_fellowship, sinfestfeed, someposifeed, vgc, xkcd_rss, or pennyarcaderss. Almost every day, multiple people post saying that they are upset with this behavior, causing a drama storm that totally drowns out relevant, meaningful comments. On days when there is no protest, “jassalol” will take a previous protest comment and *reply to himself* with it, causing even more drama.
Abuse complaint

I was referred to the sleep disorders center for help with my sleep apnea (pause in breathing) and snoring/congestion. Last night was my sleep observation appointment.

It looks like I will almost certainly get a CPAP machine to assist with keeping my airway open at night. Most of the tightening of the airway is due to my tongue (seems to be a bit wider than normal and has bite marks around the edges) and there’s an observable but not serious narrowing of the part just above the uvula/tonsil area leading to the nose. Continuous Positive Air Pressure should hopefully help both of those.

Earlier in the week I had a consultation office visit with the doctor. More details