I’m glad I posted early yesterday, because it was eleven o’clock by the time we got home from picking Jeff up at SFO.

He had to work this morning, so Diane and I went out and ran our usual Thursday errands; today’s schedule included going back to the mechanic to have the Check Engine light turned off.

Jeff finished his work early, so we all went to Khaosan Thai for a leisurely lunch outside, followed by a long walk including a visit to the Amazon locker at Safeway where I picked up the subtly-colored Siri Remote case I’d ordered in hopes of keeping the remote from slipping under the couch cushions.

This evening, we watched Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – it was great. I wish there were a way to watch it without the commercial breaks, though.

And speaking of weird, the Check Engine light has returned. Back to the mechanic tomorrow!

ComedySportz San Jose is reopening next weekend, and tickets to their first shows were supposed to go on sale at 10am today. I wanted to be sure that we got tickets to the Friday night show, so I loaded the Buy Tickets page at 10am exactly.

It only listed two events for November, neither of them the one I wanted. I reloaded, saw no changes, waited a few minutes, reloaded again and still saw no changes – I realized that this was a job for the computer, not me. I looked at the source of the page and saw that the actual event list was on vbotickets.com. It was easy to figure out how to use curl and jq to get the count of events available in November. After that, it was trivial to create a one-line script that would check the count of events every 60 seconds and tell me when it was time to order tickets – I started it running and began preparing the marinade for Oven-Roasted Chicken Schwarma.

A few minutes later, I heard “Buy Tickets!” and saw the order page pop up on the screen, so I bought three tickets for next Friday night’s show and went back to making marinade.

Tonight, I have a Shir Hadash Board meeting, but I’m going to have to leave early so we can go to SFO and pick Jeff up (hence the need for three tickets). I’ll cope.