December 31, 2000: The Big New Year’s Eve Party

Tonight is the big New Year’s Eve Party!  This is the party that Sheep Guarding Llama was originally created to announce.  Strangely, I didn’t update the site with any information about the party tonight until a full seven years later!  (Post created on December 28, 2007.) Andy, Bob, Nate and I are all living in …

March 22, 2000: Working in Shadyside

Today is our first real day of doing work in Pittsburgh.  We don’t have much time to “settle into a groove”.  We are going from “zero to one hundred” practically overnight.  Today we got set up with an office in the bowels of UPMC Shadyside from which we will be working for the next several …

March 21, 2000: Settling in to Shadyside

This morning Andy and my job is to move into the Amberson Apartments on the Carnegie-Mellon campus in Shadyside, Pennsylvania. My parents came down to Pittsburgh to help us with the move-in process. We got a two bedroom, one bath apartment on the seventh floor (seventh floor facing the circle and ninth facing Amberson) of …

March 20, 2000: Waste Watcher Goes to Pittsburgh

Today is the big day.  One month ago today Andy and I packed up and left Rochester to come to Ithaca to begin “phase one” of our Waste Watcher project adventure.  Today begins the second phase.  The 1992 Buick Regal GS was loaded to the hilt with sleeping bags, blankets, two Compaq Proliant 800 Servers, …