Sheep Guarding Llama

Two weeks since the last game. Phil called Min and apologized for leaving Mt. Dew containers around two weeks ago so he is allowed to come to the game tonight. Phil and Jeremy ended up coming over and Min joined us. We ended up playing from 8:00 until 2:00. We had a good time. We have learned that we just don’t enjoy playing in unbalanced teams so we are trying to avoid that happening from now on.

I installed solar powered walkway lights yesterday morning and they are all charged up today and we get to use them for the first time. They turned out to be really nice. I really like them. They are supposed to be white but they are slightly bluish. They were really inexpensive. We got them on sale at Wegmans. My dad thought that they would probably only last until 9:00 at night or so but they seem to last all night. I checked them at 4:00am and they were working just fine. So we are planning on picking up another package of them so that we will have eight total. Four of them don’t really light up very much of the sidewalk to be as useful as we would like.

Min did a bit of gardening today. We have a small garden spot in front of the sidewalk leading up to the front door and it needed weeded badly. So she went out there and worked for hours getting it into really nice shape. We have to work pretty hard at that because all of the neighbors have really nicely manicured little garden areas and we don’t want to get left behind.

Ok, ok, it has been forever since I updated the site. This past month has been really hectic. I even did a few updates previously and didn’t even manage to get them posted. How terrible is that. I had a number of things happen last month that really slowed down my posting… new main desktop, my laptop got reinstalled, etc., etc. I have been doing a ton or classwork for college too. I have been in full swing at Empire State now for two full weeks and that is a lot of added work. I am doing a full sixteen credit course load this summer and it keeps me pretty busy. I am still on target to graduate before the end of the year. So that is making me really tired. But things are going well so that is good.

I had a lunch meeting today with the yellow pages for Rochester. We are putting a bigger ad in next year so look for us!

Josh and I managed to get together and play some golf this afternoon. This was my first game in two years and Josh’s first since last season. We sucked. Holy cow are we bad. But that is okay. The weather was amazing for the first seven holes up at Genesee in Brighton. But we got called in because a thunderstorm hit so we didn’t manage to finish. That is just as well, we were already over par (for all nine holes that is.) After the rain hit, we headed up to Tahou’s for some garbage plates. They were really good. I haven’t had a plate in a really long time because everytime that we go there they end up not having eggs that night. It was yummy.

I got home two hours before Min had to go to work. We watched a little projector and then she headed off to work. The thunderstorm was causing the power to go in and out so I had to make sure that all of the computers were turned off. So I went to bed early to take advantage of not being allowed to do any work.

I will do my best to keep the updates rolling in, I know it has been a dry spell.

Sorry about the long delay in posting, it has been a really busy week and I switched my main computer over which meant that I had a few days with no access to my files. It has made for a busy week.

Dominica worked this morning at Keshequa and I got up with her to go to a Microsoft show in Rochester. I got up there early in the morning just to discover that I am a total idiot and the show was actually in NYC – not Rochester. So that was a total waste of time. So I headed on over to the hospital for a little while and then Eric and I went out and got some breakfast at Mel’s Diner.

I had to run down to Dansville to do some work this afternoon. I ended up working all afternoon down there.

Min made dinner for me when I got home. We watched some movies and I worked on our new Netgear VPN accellerator that we have now. I need to get it set up tonight because I am going to be out all day tomorrow. Phil and I are driving down to Binghamton first thing in the morning. We are picking up some equipment down there, so that will take most of the day. Phil and Min are both working overnights tonight so they will both be really tired tomorrow.

Min is back to work at Keshequa today. She has been off for two weeks because of Spring Break. So it is good that she is back to work again. And it is nice that they called her the very first day too.

I spent the morning working here in the office. We are doing our first warranty claim directly with HP today so I wanted to get the training done on the hardware before calling it in. That wasn’t too big of a deal but there was so much stuff going on today that I barely got a chance to get anything done.

Eric came over for a late lunch and we went over to the Omega Grill. I think that I eat there often enough that they would worry if I missed a day.

Our new Netgear VPN unit arrived today. So I got to play with that a little bit. I need to figure out how to integrate it into our network – we are going to be using it to extend our network. We are going to be doing lots of cool new stuff with this new equipment. And even more cool new stuff later this week when we get our new Proliant 3000 server. I am very excited about getting our new server. Phil is driving me down in his truck to pick it up. Phil is getting a new HP desktop and monitor.

I had to get down to Dansville first thing this morning. A client of ours there had an emergency yesterday and we had to go down today to take care of them. I spent about three hours there this morning. It turned out that it was a hardware issue and we had to deal with warranty replacement.

While I was down working, Min and Kate went to LaGrange Baptist. I managed to get back in time to meet them over at the Omega Grill for some dinner. On the way home, a massive spring thunderstorm hit. There was a tremendous hail storm – I can’t believe the car was seriously damaged, it was pretty major hail. But the car survived just fine.