The Walking Dead... (aka JetLag)

None of the E-Team slept very well, MrC was awake from 2:30am, MrCosmicTea woke at 55mins past every hour and MrGrumpy was wide awake checking emails at 4:00am.

After a morning of meetings the E-Team with support from MrWhiteSox and MrZee,  had some lunch.

Post Lunch and mid afternoon they were feeling the effects of JetLag, they powered on through with the assistance of coffee and sour skittles.

By early evening they headed to the "Yard House" in San Jose for some refreshment and food.

The Final Countdown

Today it is time for the Season 2 cliffhanger, what could it be... well it is a DonutThursday, so will MrGrumpy only go for fruit and stay away from the donut? (unlikely)...

Could Season 3 be the final season? will there be a Season 4 or will there be a spin off series?, time will tell.

Once MrGrumpy returns for Season 3 his next scheduled return to the UK is not until the end of  next March, this will be a really long time to be away from friends and family. 

He does have LittleMissNaughty coming over for their holidays to look forward to, their holiday plans have an uncanny resemblance to the Piston Heads American Dream tour, but PH are doing it all in 8 days, MrGrumpy and LittleMissNaughty have planned it over two trips.

MrGrumpy and MrZee leave for the airport at lunchtime, MrGrumpy is hoping the choice of seats is not limited to the two that were shown on the website, both middle seats. If it is then his flight will be even more miserable than usual. 

Long Days and Short Weeks

MrGrumpy is constantly surprised and how short the weeks seem, it is probably due to the long 12 hour days (which also seem to be too short).
Even starting at 7AM, it is 1PM before he seems to have even begun to make any progress. Generally that progress is not positive, once through the deluge of conference calls and emails, by 1PM he has more things added to the todo list than taken off.
Every issue / email seems to explode into several actions, most of which involve getting info to / from people on the oposite side of the world, thus adding more to the frustration and delays to all concerned.

Today MrGrumpy has had a very bad fitbit day... too much sitting down, hardly any walking at all, by 6:30pm only 1600 steps and just 9 flights of stairs... about 1/3 of a normal day... OK, his plan for today and tomorrow was to rest the legs a little, but not that much...

It was 7:45pm before MrGrumpy left the CubeFarm today and he already knows tomorrow is going to be a challenging day, he wonders if it is even worth going home.

He did finally manage to cross a couple of items off his todo list, but this was only tiding up loose ends. With this done he might be able to concentrate on what he needs to while MrZee is on vacation. But not until at least tomorrow afternoon, and then only if the morning goes well.

MrGrumpy's sends home the Sunshine

Another early start, MrGrumpy was in the office by 6:45 this morning and he had to fill up with gas on the way.

MrGrumpy has noticed that the weather in Sunnyvale is cooling down a little (about 21-22 deg C) as the UK is hotting up 28 deg C max today (ready for his return), looking at the forecast it will have evened out by the weekend 21-22 at both.

It was another Donut Thursday, he was so busy with his work that he forgot, it was only when somebody walked past his cube and reminded him, that he remembered. He knew there was a reason why he did not have breakfast this morning.

MrGrumpy has had a run in with his technology today, his laptop got very confused with it's mouse and wireless connections, requiring several reboots, fiddling with various settings, turning it off and on again... Finally it seems to be working again. One of the side effects of mixing multiple operating systems on a single device, MrGrumpy thinks. Maybe he was just having a bad technology day!

As the afternoon draws on, MrGrumpy is getting quite hungry, does he wait for the very last free meal in the canteen at 7:00pm or does he head home and treat himself to a pizza at the local near home. Maybe it is time for a snack and see how he feels later. He checked what tonights option of free food is, it is Korean BBQ, that is OK but he is still tempted by a pizza and to quote MrHomer, "Hot Pizza, the food of Kings!".

Today is the end of The Prisoner (staring MrGrumpy) - Season 1 - his last full day in the CubeFarm, tomorrow he will be heading for the airport at lunchtime (so only a 5 hour working day), the morning will just be like the end credits, time to tidy up some loose ends and ensure MrZee is busy for the next couple of weeks.

MrGrumpy intends on maintaining some updates during his vacation, they may not be uploaded daily - depending on wifi availability. Most entries could be "sitting by pool in the sun, drinking beer or eating out" so don't expect too much classic MrGrumpy. But then he will be in a foreign country and there is a general tendency for things to annoy him.

On his way home, MrGrumpy's scrooge gene kicked in,  having spent quite a lot of money last weekend, he decided to use the emergency frozen microwave food instead of going out. The Pizza slice was more like a pizza coaster, so he also nuked up the pasta stuff as well. Between the two there was just enough for a snack. What did he expect given they were only $0.99 each. Washed down with a couple of beers and some chips (crisps) while watching mythbusters, that will have to do him for tonight.

MrGrumpy is not sure why this post did not publish last night, it was still showing as draft this morning, even though he had told it to publish.