Sheep Guarding Llama

A rough night for me last night. Sick and had insomnia.

Today Luciana screams: You don’t care about anything, all you care about is people not getting sick!

I swear, the things that that kid says.

Today was super busy at work, I did not get much of a chance to be on line all day. I had to work till very late. After nine at night and I was still at my desk writing a statement of work.

I did Dominica’s update to Ubuntu 18.04 on her work laptop tonight, just before midnight.

Tomorrow we are heading down to Houston for Easter with the Grices. So this is our last day at home for a few.

Wednesday. And today Luciana turns seven! Happy Birthday to Luciana!

Both girls are feeling better today. Luciana is fully over her bout with the “flu”, and Liesl was feeling pretty perky this morning.

Dad was doing research on the family history and found out that my great….. great grandfather was “The Little Dutchman”, George Washington’s Aide-de-camp during part of the Revolution and the presenter of the white horse that he rode in many pictures of Yorktown. Very cool bit of personal history.

For Luciana’s birthday, we had pizza by her choice. She loves pizza. The big theme of Ciana’s birthday is Shopkins. She got loads of Shopkins stuff today.

Tonight I got Luciana’s flu myself. Did not get nearly as sick as she did, but I did feel badly tonight.

Insomnia again tonight for me. I think it is from being sick and that causing my heart to race which was giving me anxiety. Of course, with all of the stress of the last two weeks, it’s no surprise that I am feeling anxiety and struggling to sleep.

Tuesday. Today, after many years of using iPhones, Paul and I went to the T-Mobile store and got me a Samsung Galaxy S9 Android phone. I was not super happy with my iPhone 7+, the audio was terrible and never worked properly, and the camera quality was quite bad with a big smudge in the middle of every picture. It was too large, but you had to get the big size to get the features that I had wanted. It wasn’t a bad phone per se but it was super expensive and failed to live up to expectations. So rather than spending a small fortune to just throw money at the Apple ecosystem, I am trying the alternative after many years away.

In my first day, I have to say that I am very happy with the Galaxy S9. The size is really great. I’d still like it just a tiny bit smaller, but it is a world better than the iPhone. The screen quality feels slightly better to me, but I can’t be sure there. The camera quality is way better. Apple is clearly way behind there. I am not sure how much I like the rounded edges, though. That will have to be seen how that appeals to me over time.

We have been talking about moving devices over to Android because we have been saddled with iOS devices for so long and while they are well built and last forever, they are super costly and limiting. If it was just me and Dominica, it would be one thing. But we need devices for the girls as well and with Android we have way more flexibility for that. Their iPhones are not too much of a problem, but their iPads are and their phones and tablets need to be able to share applications. So making the move over to Android while painful at this time will, over time, greatly lower our costs and provide, we hope, for a stable source of applications for all of the devices that the girls use rather than having them split between different platforms like they are today. We are planning on the kids getting Kindle Fire devices for Christmas, most likely. Their iPads are getting old and we cannot afford to be buying them new iPads. Overall, the iPads were not expensive given how long they held up. But cheaper devices that can be replaced more often make way more sense for kids so that we don’t have to be so incredibly concerned about them getting broken.

The exterminator came by today. We are using the same service that we were using when we used to live here.

Today was another really long day. We are spending all of our time trying to figure out what has happened over the last several years and put everything back together. It is very difficult, and very stressful.

Tonight everyone had insomnia. I have a feeling that there is going to be a lot of that.

Liesl caught whatever Luciana had the other night, she is sick tonight.

Monday. Back to work, facing the situation again. Now that we are back at it, we had to spend the entire day working on account and billing issues to recover from the issue of last week. I also did a helpdesk migration today, from Spiceworks On Premises to Spiceworks Hosted for a client. That went, less than smoothly. They did not make that migration path as smooth as it should have been. But there was no choice as the on premises product had been abandoned some years ago and is no longer able to be installed on current systems and has some bugs that were crippling to the customer.

We made a soft announcement for MangoCon 2019 today. No official dates yet, but we are working on it. It will be in Dallas in the spring, though.

I ran out to get dinner tonight.

Sunday. Tonight we got back to our Harry Potter marathon with Paul and watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This is when the movies really start to get good.

For dinner tonight, Paul made tuna steaks. They were amazing.

Tonight, late at night, Ciana suddenly got suck and threw up while in bed. She was not feeling sick at all, it came out of nowhere. We had no warning, she didn’t feel a thing.

She made it an hour or two, but got sick again. A rough night for her. She is nothing like her mother, though. Getting sick like that doesn’t phase Luciana at all. If it didn’t catch her so much by surprise, I doubt that she would even tell us that anything happened. She is so casual about handling it, she just runs into the bathroom and doesn’t complain at all. She’s been like this for years. So amazingly mature about that. Never known or heard of any kids like that, barely any adults.

So pretty much no sleep for me, either. But obviously I did much better than Ciana.