To the Doctor by Train

I worked at Day Jobbe from the hotel room this morning, then took a half-day off for my annual physical. I caught a light rail train from in front of the hotel down to San Jose Diridon station and rode Caltrain up to Palo Alto. This way my first ride on the new electrified trains.

( Sparks Effect )

This will be my last visit with my doctor at Sutter Health/Palo Alto Medical Foundation, as he's told me that he's retiring in a few months. So I have no more excuses and will need to get a new doctor in the Reno area. In the meantime, my about-to-be-former doctor changed some prescriptions to (we hope) deal with a problem I'm having and also (again, we hope) work on the diabetes.

After my visit, I had to spend some time waiting in the lab for a blood draw before walking back to the Caltrain station to ride back to San Jose.

On the way back to the hotel, I stopped at The City Fish San Jose and picked up a fish dinner to take back to the hotel for late lunch/early dinner. I then took a two-hour nap before heading back out again; however, that's another store.

Emojiland

One of the good things about having to come down to San Jose this week was that it gave me the opportunity to see one of the final performances of Emojiland, which runs through Sunday.

I initially worried that I was going to miss the show, because when I went out to catch the light rail train, it turned out that they were kicking everyone off the trains because the line was closed at First and Brokaw Streets, where an idiot driver had turned down the railroad tracks rather than onto North First Street. I walked to the next station in the hope that they might be running trains from there. As it happens, while I was walking to Metro/Airport, a tow truck managed to get the stuck car off the tracks and rail service resumed, and I made it to the theatre before they started seating people.

( Very Important Emoji )

The only bad part about attending the show (and making a wrong turn that cost me 15 minutes waiting for the next light rail train back to the hotel) is that I"m now going to get less than three hours of sleep until I have to get up and get ready to go home. Thanks to the way the schedules work, I have to be on a 4:30 AM bus out of San Jose Diridon if I'm going to catch the train back to Reno. There's no public transit at that hour, so I have scheduled a Lyft ride to the station for 4 AM. At least there shouldn't be any traffic.