Sheep Guarding Llama

Min was exhausted after not having any sleep last night or today so she went to bed around 3:00 this afternoon and I headed over to my grandma’s to see my family who is having a family dinner tonight. I have a cousin from Ohio in town visiting and my aunt who came up from Florida. We only get to see them about once a year so I try not to miss my chances.

Dad and I had to work at a client site this afternoon so we headed out from my house around 2:30 and spent the afternoon working up in the city. We managed to get home a little bit before Min made it home from Ithaca. She got out of work early and managed to get home around 6:00.

I slept in nice and late this morning. Finally! I really needed that. I am going to try that full night’s sleep thing out again tonight, I hope.

I had some errands that I wanted to run this morning and I had to get some information together for Dominica because she is doing her first tech work for me tomorrow morning in Varna. So she is a little bit nervous, but everyone has to start off somewhere. I had to run over to Target to get a toothbrush and toothpaste because somehow I left those items somewhere. I am not sure whether they are in Varna or if they are in Geneseo but I am pretty sure that they are in one of the other. And I had to run over to Borders to pick up a Lonely Planet guide (I can’t say where it is for, I am taking Min somewhere as a surprise for her birthday!) Then I ran out and got some lunch. I got the info together for Min and headed out to Annapolis to hang out for the afternoon.

I made it over to Annapolis around 3:30. We hung out for a while. Some friends got stranded out on the island in the bay and we had to run out to tow them back in. I spent a lot of the afternoon pouring over my new Lonely Planet guide (I highly suggest Lonely Planet as a good starting point for all of your travel needs.) We had dinner and I headed back to the hotel in time to get in around 11:15. Looks like I might get some more of that sleep thing tonight!

Where did the month of June go? That just flew by. I can’t believe that it is already summer. I was up really late last night so I slept in this morning. Min got home from work an wanted to go straight out to Walmart to get supplies to finishing mudding the basement but I just couldn’t handle getting out of bed. So she decided to come home and get some sleep. She didn’t bother sleeping yesterday so she is really tired.

I had a webinar at noon so I took that and worked on getting old dailies posted to SGL. Sorry about the lull. I knew that late June was going to be crazy.

I am scheduled to be in Washington next week. I am travelling down on July 5th (that’s Monday) and I should be returning on Tuesday the 13th. Min and I will be in Ithaca on July 4 and 5. That only leaves me with two more days here in Geneseo. And I feel like I just barely got here.

After Min got up we went to Walmart and did some shopping. We got the spackling, primer and paint that we need to do the theatre in the basement. We have decided for the time being to paint the walls flat black and to paint the screen area high gloss white. It isn’t as good as a screen but in the totally dark room it will be worlds better than anything we have ever done before and it will let us see exactly how we are going to use the theatre before we start spending money on a screen. While we were at Walmart we decided that we needed to get a sno-cone maker. So we got one and tons of flavorings for it. We are very excited about that.

Min and I had dinner with dad over at the Omega Grill this evening. Dad is exhausted, he has been staying with my grandma all week because the rest of my family has been out of town seeing my great uncle Bill out in Ohio. So dad is finally back at home now but he is still really tired.

After dinner, Min and I went over to the Millen’s to visit. This was our first chance to see the baby. Julia Elisabeth Millen. Everyone was doing really well. We didn’t visit for very long, mostly because it was so late by the time we were over there. We left there and Min went straight to work at the hotel. I had to get back home because I have a bit of work that needs to be done tonight because I have to work up in the city tomorrow.

Boy have I slacked off on getting the dailies posted. Being back in Geneseo keeps me both really busy and not using my laptop. Between the two, I just don’t tend to get anything done.

After staying up late last night, I actually ended up getting up early today. Long before Min got home from work. I spent most of the day working around the house. Plenty of work to do with only a few days here at home. Min got home from work and decided not to go to bed but instead started working on spackling the basement theatre room in the hopes of getting it much closer to completion as quickly as possible. She ended up running out of spackle in no time. So we have to go shopping soon to get more of that and to get paint as well because we are going to paint the basement in the next few days.

Dad came over to Geneseo late this morning and had lunch with Min and I over at the Omega Grill.

Min and I went up and had dinner with Phil and Kate this evening at Cracker Barrel. I am borrowing Phil’s truck this evening to move some stuff over to dad’s house. We had to kind of hurry back from dinner so that Phil and Min would have enough time to get to work tonight.

So Andy and I began moving stuff over to dad’s around 11:00. We ended up taking two loads over to put in the barn. We moved the patio bar set over there because it has been taking up way too much room in the garage and the rest was just trash that needed to go over there. I had been doing a lot of cleaning in the basement and it had produced a tremendous amount of trash that needed to go somewhere. So that really helped clear up a lot of space in the basement.

After taking the two loads over, I ran the truck back up to Rochester and picked my car back up. Then I stopped by the hospital and did some work there and hung out with Phil for a while. I didn’t end up getting home until about 4:30am but I did get a lot done while I was at the hospital.

I am going to go ahead and post on July 1. I am leaving the wedding weekend blank because it was so busy that I had no way to write anything at all but I will be going back and filling it all in. So don’t forget to check back there and see the details.