Sheep Guarding Llama

Its a warm one again today. I had to pull my lazy butt out of bed early this morning and head up to RIT to meet with someone to talk about me entering the grad program there in March. The program is looking good. All is moving forward smoothly at the moment.

When I got back from the city, Min, Andy and I went out to Denny’s for some lunch. I have hardly been eating anything the last couple of days because the medication that I am on is lowering my stomach acid levels and making me digest food much more slowly than I normally do. At least it is a handy weight loss plan.

Andy’s new copy of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 arrived today so we drove over to dad’s to pick it up. I had a load of stuff waiting over there for me so it was good to get it all. I am planning on leaving town on Wednesday so I have been trying to get everything possible into place before then.

Min tried playing Empires today. We have had the game for a while but have hardly played it at all. Min didn’t like it very much. I think she has reinforced the decision that it is okay but just not going to cut it as a game that we will all want to play. Empire Earth 2 has been announced and we are hoping that maybe there is some chance of that being a good game.

Min and I watched Star Trek VIII: First Contact tonight. It is the last of the Star Trek films for Min to see.

Dad is already addicted to having wireless Internet access at home. The wireless is a bit faster than his best dialup connections. And it is always on which is pretty awesome.

Well, the site is back up today. We have been down for the past week because of a server reinstallation. We fought to keep the critical systems online but we lost a few things here and there and this site and MincaKnits were the ones that we couldn’t get back up for a while. But we are back up and functioning just fine now.

Min and I slept in late today. I have been staying up really late trying to get things working. We have tons of cool new services running in the company and they have been demanding a lot of attention.

Min and I went down to grandma’s house to help dad set up his wireless networking on his laptop.

This evening, Andy, Min and I went over to Denny’s for some dinner. I haven’t been hungry though so I just had a little bit of what Min couldn’t eat of her meal.

Just another day at home. I have tons of work to get done so I spent the day working on company stuff.

We have been needing desperately to rebuild our Microsoft ISA 2000 server but unfortunately it means losing a lot of functionality while everything gets rebuilt. Look for us to be back up soon.

It is a warm day today. Mid 80’s!! It is like a heat wave. Only in New York can it be so cold for so long and then so hot all of a sudden.

I worked around the house most of the day and so did Min. There is almost no chance of substitute being needed for the rest of the teaching year so she is likely to be home Mondays and Tuesdays now.

Andy got in from Canada this afternoon. We were pretty surprised to see him, we didn’t think that would be seeing him until at least tomorrow.

This afternoon we decided that we really needed to get a new deck furniture set. The bar that we have had out there is great but it just doesn’t suit our needs. It is way to large is the biggest problem. The deck is pretty small and just doesn’t have room for something like that. We had been wanting to replace it for a while but the robins built a nest in it a few weeks ago and we had been waiting for the eggs to hatch and the babies to grow up and leave before we moved it. But this morning, Min went out to check on the nest and found that some animal had gotten into it and destroyed it and eaten the eggs. That was sad but at least it meant that we got to move the bar into the garage finally. So then we went to Walmart and found the deck set that we liked and picked it up. The matching umbrella was nowhere to be found so I had to drive out to Batavia to get it. While I was out, Min assembled the set so that it was ready for me.

Ok, no sooner do I mention Min not subbing than we get a call for her to sub for tomorrow. So she is going to Keshequa tomorrow. Good deal.

So we got the deck furniture put together and now I am sitting out on the deck at almost 1:00 am in the almost total darkness (since the insane New York wind keeps blowing out the torches) writing the SGL updates. But boy is it cool. I wish that I could do something about the wind though. You don’t realize how used to the wind you are until you think that it is a really calm night and the torches blow out continuously. In Maryland, this would be considered a tropical storm or something.

Speaking of Maryland, the plan is that I am going to be heading down south a week from today to work in DC. I will be in and out of DC for around a month or more. It should be pretty crazy but with all of the school work that I need to get done, it should work out pretty well. I will be forced to sit in either the office or in a hotel room without a whole heck of a lot to do other than to do my homework and to get the SGL updates taken care of. Normally when I am in DC, I am out of touch in the hotel but I have ordered my new Verizon wireless broadband Internet access now so I should have it in the middle of this week. I am very excited. I will be online ALL of the time while I am out of town now. I will be able to get unprecedented amounts of work done. I will never have to watch crappy television in a hotel room again just because I am bored but can’t handle being in the office any longer. I am very excited.