I woke up at 6 again. I was more tired this morning than yesterday; I had a little trouble sleeping in the late morning and was tossing and turning. After eating breakfast, I watched a lecture on my media player. This one was about pre-execution, a cool optimization technique for speeding up processors by reducing the effect of branch & load stalls. I got a little tired a few times and had to pause it and collect my wits, but it was a pretty good presentation so I was pretty engaged for the most part.

I woke up at 6 (with the alarm). I slept pretty good. I made myself a bowl of cereal and worked on my Japanese homework (I shouldn’t have waited until the last minute, but it was good to finish). I got into work pretty early (a little after 7) and got to work pretty fast. I started a discussion (with the rest of the leads) about employee retention. It was a good topic to bring up and I enjoyed discussing it.

Halloween. I woke up at 6:30, via the alarm (scary!) and ate a bowl of Toasted Oats. My media player was low on batteries (and I wasn’t in the mood), I didn’t want to turn on the light for fear of bothering Eriko (so I couldn’t study Japanese), so waking up early wasn’t super productive for me. I did spend a little time making sure the software on the laptop was up to date, and I left for work early.

I slowly awoke from my dream, in which the MG had been converted into a hybrid vehicle, to find Eriko waking up. I then rolled out of bed and joined her in the living room (being sure to make noise so that I wouldn’t scare her.) The clock read 7 o’clock, but we had yet to turn back out clocks – so we woke up at 6 AM! That was great.

Eriko woke up a few minutes before the alarm (set for 8) and thus, so did I. She immediately got to work preparing lunch, which I found quite impressive. She also ate a small breakfast for herself while I used the computer and other assorted things. We left the house about 9, headed for her drum lessons. We were on-time (even a little early) and I stood outside with a few of her classmates while we waited.

Up not-so-early, I got into work about 8 but didn’t start to focus until about 9. The rest of the morning was relatively productive, though. Lunch was good and the afternoon was routine + a nice talk with my new boss. Dinner was yummy and then Eriko called her mom. I finished watching a lecture and we spent some time together.