Sheep Guarding Llama

Mondays. Why are Mondays always so busy? Min starts her new job today. We didn’t get up super early this morning because we arrived so late last night. I am feeling better, however. So that is good.

Andy and I spent the day working on the Waste Watcher around the house. At 2:00ish, he and I went down to Leicester to help Jeremy deal with his computer that isn’t working. He bought Everquest II for his computer but it won’t load. Turns out his DVD player isn’t working. The CD portion of it works fine but the DVD portion is shot. So I loaded the game by remoting to my laptop with a crossovre cable. That transferred reasonably quickly. But after all of that work we discovered that the game wouldn’t run because the computer was dreadfully shy of the minimum requirements for the game to run. The most important short comings including the lack of a serious hardware based 3D accelerator as well as the necessity to be online for the game to even attempt to start. So he won’t be using that game anytime soon. He doesn’t have Internet access on his desktop.

Andy and I went over to Cook’s in Greigsville and got some subs for dinner. They have really great subs there. Rumor has it (okay, Art told me) that Heather Schaeffer is back in town having moved back from Florida just recently and that she is working down at Cooks. I left one of my business cards with someone who worked there to give to Heather. So we will see if she calls me or not. I haven’t seen her since she had dinner at TGI Friday’s with Josh and I back in 1997 or 1998 the evening before she left for Florida.

Min started her new job at 3:00 working until 11:00 this evening. Mary is training her on the desk. She will do the same shift again tomorrow and then the overnight audit on Wednesday night. Her regular shifts, though, will be just 3:00 pm to 7:00 am on Mondays and Tuesdays once she is done training. She will probably only get one week of training since this is her third hotel position.

I headed off to Johnson City (Binghamton) at 5:30. It is a bit of a drive so I had to leave early. I got to work a little bit early which helped me get all of my ducks in a row and everything rolling right as the shift started at 9:00. I made good time and was able to leave before 1:00.

Originally, the plan had been to crash at John Stephen’s home in Endicott but I decided that I needed to just go up to Ithaca and stay at the hotel. That way I could just get up in the morning and go straight off to all of the things that I had to do.

So I got to the Comfort Inn around 2:00 am. The hotel room was really nice. It had a full sliding glass door with direct walk out to the parking lot. I was realy impressed. I got a decent rate too, $85. I will definitely be staying there when I am in Ithaca. Especially now that I get a discount from Min’s hotel. Whoo-hoo.

I was up nice and early this morning taking the dog’s outside. Oreo has to go out first thing in the morning and he isn’t very resilient to waiting after he wakes up. So my day started quickly. Min slept in for a while after I got up.

Today we celebrated Father’s Day. Dominica and I went over to dad’s for a picnic with the family. We were over there for much of the day.

Okay, it has been a busy week and I have totally fallen behind again. I have been doing a fair amount of posting to my other blog sites so go and look at them if you think that I haven’t been writing anything recently.

I had to be up early this morning and off to Perry to work for a couple of hours. I took my new Samsung Yepp with me and listened to a few hous of David McCullough’s “1776” while I was working. I really liked his last book, “John Adams”, and this was the follow up to it. He reads them himself and he is very good. He used to be the host of “The American Experience” on PBS, which I used to watch sometimes.

I was supposed to be having lunch with Craig today up at his house in North Greece. I made it up to the exit off of US390 when he called me and said that his wife was in the hospital. So I turned around on Latta Rd. and drove down to the hospital to meet Eric for lunch. We went over to Aja Noodle in Brighton’s Twelve Corners. Boy that place is good. It was packed today. Almost no tables were available.

After lunch, I went back to Geneseo. Jocelyn was supposed to have come over today to study with Min for the A+ exam but she never ended up showing up. So Andy, Min and I ended up playing a couple of practice games of AoE2. It was really frustrating though, because the phone kept ringing the entire time and we could never get going on the game.

At 6:15, dad came over with Oreo and he and I went over to the Omega Grill and got some dinner. He was in the mood for a Friday Night Fish Fry. They were packed to capacity as well. Just must be a busy day for restaurants.

After dinner, I came home and we played AoE2 until around 12:30. Oreo is spending the night tonight. We are very excited.

Mary was supposed to come over after work around 3:00 today but ended up getting stuck at work until after 6:00. She has been working mad hours recently. They are really short people over there and they have been installing a new computer system over there so she has been extra busy dealing with all of the training involved with that and the conversion of the old system into the new one.

Mary made it over around 6:30 and said that she had talked to the general manager about Dominica and that she should go over right now to see about work. Min had interviewed with this manager before when she had taken the job at the Fairfield late last year. She had interviewed at the Country Inn and Suites at the same time with this manager but she had never called her back.

So she went into the hotel and came back half an hour later with a new job at the hotel. She is doing the swing shift that Mary has been doing but they are arranging the schedule so that Min can work two sixteen hour doubles two days in a row so that she gets her entire week over and done with in just two days. She will probably work Mondays and Tuesday. That will work out extra well because those are the same nights that I am always working until mid-October. So that is a huge relief to have her working again. She starts on Monday afternoon training with Mary – which is funny because Min has four times the hotel experience that Mary does at this point.