Sheep Guarding Llama

I bet that everyone is really excited to have the site back up and tons of new content to read. This should keep everyone busy for a little while. There had better not be any complaining now about nothing happening with the site.

Min and I woke up this morning around 7:00 and wanted to set an alarm to be sure that we would wake up in time to go to church. We were too tired to actually get up at 7:00 and it wouldn’t be good for Min since she has to work her double today. It wouldn’t be good if she got up early too. But for some reason, we couldn’t find the alarm clock so that we could wake ourselves up. We were awfully tired so we went back to sleep. At 10:00, we woke up to an alarm. We couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. Finally we realized that the sound was coming from the bed. So Min pulled back the fitted sheet and felt beneath the feather mattress that we have and there was the alarm clock. Apparently, when Min made the bed yesterday, she accidentally let the clock get into the bed and it got made into it. So we got up too late to make it to church but we did find the alarm clock. We thought that that was pretty amusing.

We had a few things that we needed to go shopping for so we went out to Walmart for a little bit and did some light shopping. Of course, while we were there, Min found some movies that she wanted (I honestly had nothing to do with it this time) and so she picked up three new Rock Hudson movies to watch at work tonight. She goes through movies so fast at work it is unbelievable. After shopping, we managed to get a hold of dad when he got home from church and he came over to Geneseo and met us at Denny’s for lunch before Min had to go to work. Min and I ran over to Wegmans to do some quick grocery shopping while we were waiting for him to come up to Geneseo. Denny’s was packed full of people and it ended up taking a really long time for us to get served and Min and I ended up having to run out to get her off to work. We are planning on having breakfast with dad again tomorrow so it wasn’t so bad to eat and run.

As always, Sunday is a big work day for me down in the basement. It is about the only day that I can work straight during the afternoon, evening and night so I am pretty productive.

I got a lot of work done tonight. I have been working hard on getting the Linux machines ready for the Castile school and I am hoping that tomorrow I will be able to wrap up the last of the ones that I have and that on Tuesday I can make a run down to Castile to install them (and to get them out of the house.) We have so many machines in this house that I have to do something just to come up with some space to work in.

Min and I got up around 10:00 this morning. Jeremy was sitting in the upstairs hallway with his computer set up in the hallway watching the replay of yesterday’s final AoE2 game. So I joined him sitting on the hallway floor and we analyzed the game. Min’s parents had called last night and said that they were coming out today to pick up some stuff that we had of theirs here so we had plans to spend the afternoon with them. Sara came to pick up Jeremy around 11:15 and they headed home. I hopped into the shower to get ready for lunch.

My dad arrived around 12:15 and Min’s parents arrived around 12:30 with Dexter. We hung out for a little bit but everyone was hungry so we headed off to the Omega Grill for some lunch. After lunch, dad took right off to go down to Leicester because his mom came home from the hospital yesterday but needs someone to be with her all of the time and my aunt needed a break. Min’s parents came back to our place and hung out for a few hours. They had come down to pick up a snow blower part and a desk that we had here for them. They took off mid-afternoon to get back to Frankfort before it got dark.

Min played some Sims 2 while I took a nap. I couldn’t believe how tired I was this afternoon. I probably slept for an hour almost while Min played video games. Then I took another shower just in case I was tired because my sinuses were so dry.

I, as usual, had work to get done so I headed down to the basement to work on a few things (including getting this site back up and running again now that I finally know that it was down.) Luckily, we are back up and running and finally everyone can see all of the new dailies that I have been posting. Min watched some more Star Trek originals while I worked. Eventually she watched “The Menagerie” which is one of my favorites so I sat down and watched it with her. I even made dinner (frozen pizza and ice cream.) Then, after Star Trek, I headed back to the office and she watched one of Nate’s favorite movies For Love or Money with Michael J. Fox and Gabrielle Anwar (Scent of a Woman).

I still had work to do after Min’s last movie so she decided to stay up a little bit longer and scare the crap out of herself by watching the new Dawn of the Dead movie with Ving Rhames.

Boy was it nice to get a real night’s sleep last night. Josh told me today that the site hasn’t been coming up for a few days. No one has told me and I have been working on it thinking that there wasn’t any problem. It works fine here. So, apprently all of the updates that I have been working on so diligently have been for naught. I would have hoped that someone would have mentioned an extended outage before now.

I had to run out this morning to run a few errands around town. I hit the bank and the Chamber of Commerce. While I was out there, I noticed that work on the new Starbucks has really been moving forward quite well and they have the new signs up on the building and out in front. It almost looks like they are open. Maybe they will be soon. Their new Chantico, drinking chocolate, is really good. I had a double yesterday while I was there. Min decided to play some AoE2 this afternoon so that she would be all ready for the game tonight. I am spending the afternoon continuing to work on the computers for the Castile school. The server appears to be ready so now it is just a matter of getting the desktop machines ready to go.

Normal work around the house this afternoon, nothing exciting. There never is.

We had a good turnout again this week. Tony wasn’t able to play because they got his report card today, but we had Andy, Min, Jeremy, Art, Danielle and I. And Michael played a little and spent most of the evening wathing movies or playing games on his own. It is a lot easier to play when you end up with an even number of players which has always been really hard for us to manage in the past. We didn’t play too late, just until 2:30 or so.

Well, yesterday’s dailies were enough to take us one notch higher on the list. I stayed up pretty late last night installing SUSE Linux on that Compaq Proliant 3000. It took a really long time but I finally got it working the way that I wanted and I think that it is going to do a really good job for the school.

Danielle took Min out shopping at Aldi’s this morning. Min has been wanting to try getting some groceries there but was nervous about going there on her own. Danielle has been going there for a while so she should Min how it works.

I had to leave the house at 1:30 to make it up to the Starbucks in Brighton for my 2:00 meeting. That went really well and we were there until about 4:30. Then I headed over to the hospital which is right next door, practically, and talked to Eric for a little bit. We are having dinner at his parent’s house at 6:00 but he and Amanda aren’t able to get there until almost 7:00. I left the hospital at 5:00 and Eric was just about to leave. I drove home and picked up Min and we ran over to Wegmans to pick up a hostess gift and then we heaed out towards Warsaw.

We arrived over at the Millen’s around 6:30. Dad had only gotten there a little bit before we did. Pete and Patty and their kids arrived around 7:00 and Eric, Amanda and Julia got there just a little bit after that. We had a really nice time and hung around until 9:30 or maybe 10:00. Min and I were both totally exhausted by the time we headed out. I have been losing ground on my sleep all week and Min has too. So we really needed to get to bed.

Andy, apparently, had to work a lot extra today. He wasn’t even home yet when we got home a little bit after 10:00. I never ended up seeing him since I went straight to bed. Min watched a little bit of the first season of Star Trek before turning in.

Things are looking good for having another AoE2 party tomorrow night. If we have everyone that we think we do, then we already have seven people committed to playing… Min, Andy, Tony, Jeremy, Art, Danielle and myself. So only one open spot left for anyone interested in playing.

Well, we are looking forward to six more weeks of winter and a HAPPY 11th ANNIVERSARY TO ART AND DANIELLE RALSTON!!

Wow, eleven years, it is hard to believe that it has been that long. Starts to make you feel old.

I got woken this morning by a phone call from work needing to get some direction from me around 7:30 this morning. One thing that I hate about using the CPAP is having to wake up and answer the phone. Dealing with the mask that is tightly strapped onto my face is not really all that easy when I am trying to answer the phone as well and get myself awake enough to deal with both things. I tried to get into the shower around 7:50 and get moving but just as I started to get up I heard Andy head into his shower so I lay back down and waited for him. Min got home around 8:00 and we headed off to breakfast with dad at 8:45. On the way to breakfast, we dropped Min’s car off at M&R Automotive by Walmart to get it inspected. It is two days past due.

After breakfast, dad drove me up to East Rochester to pick up my car that was in the shop for the clutch noise that I had heard and I got an oil change while it was in there. Apparently there is nothing wrong with the car and it drove okay for the rest of the day so I suppose that it is alright.

On the way back from the dealer I stopped in at the University of Rochester and caught Eric busy assembling waste carts for the hospital (very exciting.) It was around lunch time so we took off and headed over to Jay’s Diner for some coffee. I had just eaten a little bit before so I wasn’t hungry and Eric had packed a lunch so we just had some coffee. I did eventually break down and had an apple danish too.

I got home around 3:30 and did some work around the house – mostly making telephone calls until 4:00 when I walked over to M&R to pick up Min’s car. I would have had her drive me over but she has been really exhausted recently and with her working the extra shift tonight, I wanted her to get her sleep. The roads were clear and it was bright out and it wasn’t all that cold today. It was about 45 minutes of brisk walking to get over to the shop. Luckily I made it just a few minutes before they closed so I was able to get the car and drive back home. I did not feel like walking that twice, fast, in this weather. Once was enough.

For anyone attempting to use the web interface to the email system today, we are aware now that there is an issue accessing it from outside of the NTI network and we are working on it. I expect it to be back up and running within twenty-four hours.

Andy got home around 7:00 and I decided to wake up Min at 7:15. She has been really tired the last few days and I figured that she needed her sleep. She didn’t actually pull herself out of bed, though, until a bit after 7:30.

Hoy, voy a tener un solo párrafo writen en otra lengua. Apenas para ser diferente, ninguna razón particular. Pensé que estaría entreteniendo. Intentaré quizá esto a partir de tiempo al tiempo. ¿He pensado siempre eso que decía “qué el crap” en español era divertido – no usted?

This evening’s big project is to get the computers set up for the Castile Christian Academy. I finally have the Proliant 3000 taken out of service and ready to be installed as the school’s big iron Linux server. I think that it will do a really good job and should be able to last them for a few years, at least. It is quite the project, though, to build an entire information system for a school. This week we are trying to get their first server, their first six desktops and their firewall in place. It will be a stretch to get in their this week but that is the goal. By next school year, I hope to have a lot more stuff going on there, enough to really let them start using computer effectively throughout the school.

Min and I went out to Walmart to do some quick shopping. We needed some buns so that we could make Sloppy Joes for dinner. She had a hankerin’ (yeah I said it) for Sloppy Joes. We picked up some movies (I know, I know, I say that about every time that we go out) that were on sale. We really wanted to get Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair but Walmart for only carrying the pan and scan version and we weren’t willing to buy that, especially not of that movie and especially not for $19. What a joke. We got The Beverley HillBillies, Pretty in Pink, Pillow Talk, AntiTrust, Ray, For Love Or Money, Far and Away, Always and one other movie that Min took to work before I could write it down so I don’t know what it was. A lot of these movies were on sale really cheaply and are replacements for laserdiscs that I have. That is three less laserdiscs just today. The LD collection is dwindling as everything that we really care about is being converted. I will always maintain a decent number of LD’s for the movies that I will almost never want to watch again but want to keep the option.

While working on the server, I have to wear earplugs because it is so loud that I get nauseous being around it for just a minute or two. The sound of the motors really gets to me.

Min made dinner and we watched a little bit of The Beverley Hillbillies while we ate. It was so late when Min got up that by the time we were done eating she only had fifteen minutes or so before she had to get ready to go to work. She burnt her finger really badly while cooking dinner. She burnt it badly enough that it hurt for over half an hour and she had to put special burn cream onto it.

I had some issues getting the server install going and I didn’t get a real install started until a little bit after midnight. That sucks because I would really like to get some sleep sometime this week. I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon up in Rochester. Then, directly after my meeting I am going over to Eric’s parent’s house for dinner along with Eric, Amanda and Julia, Min and my dad. We aren’t sure what we are going to have for dinner since us being vegetarian is a bit of a surprise.