Sheep Guarding Llama

Only two more days until the big New Year’s bash. Min left for Frankfort this morning. She is going to be staying out there until Friday. Bob and Lisa are probably coming up tomorrow for a little pre-party party.

I had breakfast with dad this morning at the Omega Grill before heading down to Castile to do a little work down at the Castile Christian Academy.

Andy decided to sleep in very late today and left for work sometime after 11:00. So I guess that he is taking a half day today. I am supposed to be back at Wegmans in late January, probably the last week of the month. That is good because I will need the time between now and then just to catch up on everything that I fell behind on the last time that I was there!

My cousin, Jeremy, came over this evening and we watching Last Man Standing in the theatre. This was his first time seeing anything in the theatre. He was pretty impressed. Nate came over part way through the movie because he was ordering a laptop for Tammy. They ordered an Athlon 64 Hewlett-Packard. That is going to be a nice laptop.

I took Jeremy home around midnight and then Nate and I stayed up and watched The Princess Diaries 2 with Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway. It was sillier than the first one although I think that I might have liked it more. It was very cute. I really enjoy cute, live-action Disney movies. I always have.

I am still relaxing today, for the most part. It is so nice not to have anything pressing on me too much this week. I think that I am actually more productive when there isn’t quite so much going on because I am able to do things that I am interested in in stead of being buried under a mountain of back-logged work.

Min and I watched Robbie the Reindeer after she got up. I know it is after Christmas but we hadn’t gotten a chance to see it yet. We watched the original version with the British voice actors which is much better than the silly American version.

The dog’s owners called first thing this morning. I had contacted the SPCA last night and let them know that we had the dog and gave a description. So we are meeting down in Painted Post to give them the dog while I am on my way to Ithaca.

I am working three different places today in addition to hours of work at home before hitting the road and delivering the dog. I have to go to Lifestyle Properties today and install two computers. I have to go to Wards Autodamage in Ithaca and fix a networking issue and then I have to go to Eaton Watson Funeral Home in Perry this evening to install a computer. What a day it will be. I am exhausted and I haven’t even gotten started really. I can’t wait for this week to be over. I have really come to hate the holidays. Everyone needs everything right away but no one is at work so nothing gets done. I am going to get an ulcer at the rate I am going. I have been complaning the last two weeks that they have been just about the busiest weeks of my life and I think that this week is going to be far busier. I don’t know how I am going to make it through the week at this rate.

Miranda is here but it leaving this morning.

Well, today turned out to be a pretty exciting day. Min and I could barely pull ourselves out of bed this morning but we had no choice since both of us has tons of work to do at home tonight. Min is working her usual Sunday double shift at the hotel and I have to get a number of computers ready because I am doing installs at two different clients tomorrow. What a long day that is going to end up being.

Min and I were hoping to be able to have breakfast with John and Michelle this morning but that wasn’t going to happen. Min and I would barely get up when we did and we had no time to spare. It is a long drive from Maryland to Rochester and the weather was suppost to be pretty brutal all day. It is exactly zero farenheit here in Geneseo as I write this. Boy is it cold.

We were doing okay, we even managed to stop early on in Pennsylvania to get a late breakfast or early lunch out on the road. We also managed to listen to Lemoney Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the First on CD. That was pretty good, I haven’t heard any of the books before and I wanted to be sure that I knew the books before going to see the movie. Although I am interested in how they are going to make the movie because the book doesn’t read like the type of book that would make a good movie. But Tim Curry reads the book which really adds something to it.

As we were driving through north central Pennsylvania near Mansfield (Tioga County), we came across a dog on a bridge on the highway. The dog was eating snow and was in the fast lane in bad weather. We were sure that the dog was only going to be able to survive another couple of minutes where it was and there wasn’t a lot of chance of it managing to get off of the bridge. So we decided that we had to do something so I ran out into the road and stopped on-coming traffic and I ran over to the dog, who was very happy to see someone, and I lead him back to the car. He jumped right into the car and settled into the back seat. He was as calm as could be but had obviously been outside for some time. We drove him over to the state police station which was just a couple of miles away and we turned in a report on him. But his dog tag was too new (can you believe that) so they were not able to look up his records to see who he belonged too.) In case anyone is doing a search for his, he is a husky mix, probably less than 1 year old and we found him on Rt. 15 just south of Exit 23 in Pennsylvania. His tag is #0095 for 2005 for Tioga County. So the police said that we could take him to the SPCA but we didn’t think that that was a very good option. He is a really sweet dog and we wanted to be absolutely sure that he was going to be safe and well taken care of. So, we decided that the best thing to do would be to bring him home with us and take care of him until someone contacted either the SPCA or the police trying to find him. We left a description with the police and all of the info that they need to get a hold of us and I contact the SPCA this evening just to let them know what is going on. So, if anyone is looking for him, they should be able to find him easily. And if no one comes looking for him, then we will rest assured that he is well looked after. So we drove him home with us.

So this evening was interesting, taking care of a dog that we know nothing about. We had gone to Walmart while we were still in Pennsylvania to get him food and water. He had obviously been outside for some time because he was really hungry and thirsty. Poor puppy. He isn’t very old, maybe one year. He was great in the car the entire way back here. He just put his head between Min and I. He seemed very happy to have someone looking after him.

Min was very late getting to work this evening but they understood because the dog needed us. I had tons of work to do in the basement so I did what I could while looking after the dog. So far he has been really great. Luckily he is house broken and very polite. But he is a big dog and quite a bundle of energy when he gets outside. Which probably explains why we found him where we did.

Eventually the dog settled down in my bedroom sleeping against the bed. It is very cute.

I decided that I would post my working dailies at this point and just have a lot of ugly framework hanging out so that at least there is something to look at. I don’t want people to think that I am dead. Hold on for just one more week. All of my homework is due this week and I can’t spare any time, not even for updates. So one week from Monday… look for new stuff on the twentieth!