Sheep Guarding Llama

I was up very early this morning. 4:45 I managed to jump out of bed and get started on the day. That is the earliest that I can remember being up in a very long time. I was actually ready to go by 5:45! Cory and I were supposed to be driving down to Binghamton to do sales today. However, Cory didn’t wake up this morning until after eleven so we didn’t get to go. I am glad to have the day at home though.

I worked most of the day. My big accomplishment is that our corporate instant messaging system is finally up and running. I have been really trying to get that up soon. We think that it is going to be a major piece of our strategy with our clients giving them a good way to communicate internally, with each other and with us. This is my first time working with an IM server so I had a lot to learn to get this all set up.

The weather wasn’t too bad today but dad got snowed into the house and couldn’t leave. Eric came down this afternoon so that we could go to the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce “Business After Hours” meeting this afternoon. This was Eric’s first time at a chamber event. This time the event was held at Livingston Health Services just up the road. It was very handy. We had a good time. We made good contacts and they had good food as well.

Eric and Amanda came over for dinner this evening. Min cooked up some vegetable korma (thank goodness for our cookbook collection.) She also made chocolate bread and butter pudding which was really good.

Min and I watched some Father Ted before she went off to work. I stayed up and watched Ranma 1/2 which is a really good anime series. Luckily we have it both subbed and dubbed so that I can watch it while I work on the computer.

I had to work on Ithaca Portal because so many restaurants and things have closed up in Ithaca recently. Not only do restaurants close, but tons of websites just fold up and disappear. I have no idea how this happens so regulary but it sure does.

Lots of driving today. Min and I had to get up very early and hit the road for Ithaca. I have a lot of work to do down there today. Min has to collect her medical records so we are both going down.

The weather was pretty bad for the trip. It took us almost three hours to get down to Ithaca. I went to Lifestyles and did some work and then headed off to a couple of other places. Min ran all over the place getting her medical records.

Steve and I went up to Little Venice in T-Burg for some lunch. Min joined us a little later. Then she and I took off to get to Rochester because I had an interview with Robert Half International. But, it turns out that to work for RHI you have to sign your life away and so I decided that I wasn’t going to waste my time with them. Their paperwork and interview process is completely ridiculous. I interviewed with them in 1999 and in the past five years they have failed to contact me even once, even after they claimed that my interview went really well and that I tested incredibly high on their skills assessment. So I don’t feel bad that I didn’t bother going through that waste of time a second time.

So we got home kind of early. We didn’t do anything though. We pretty much watched some Fawlty Towers and went to bed at 9:00. I was pretty tired by the time we turned in.

This morning I headed on over to Arcade with Cory to do some sales. We didn’t have a very productive day. The weather was so cold and the driving was so bad that we only managed to do Arcade before we had to call it a day.

I am going to have to check with Min because I don’t remember Monday very well.

We went to church in Geneseo this morning because Min’s back was bothering her and she couldn’t sit through a service on LaGrange’s pews.

After church Phil and Kate came over for some dinner and to go over to look at the house that they are interested in again. We hung out and then watched a ton of movies. Kate had never seen the Romancing the Stone movies before so we watched those. Those are some classic films.

A nice relaxing Saturday. Since we cancelled the game last night, I was able to sleep in and actually have enough sleep today. Eric called and woke me up this morning. So I got up and went downstairsand played a game of Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. This is only the third full game I have played after having the game for months. I managed to beat the computer on a very hard level this time. I have not decided what I think of the game yet. It has some interesting features but it is too simple still, I think. There doesn’t seem to be enough to it. And the different civilizations are made too much different from each other that it makes it extremely important to have memorized the strengths and weeknesses of each, even for a beginner. The graphics are really nice though, that is a plus. And the game lets you have up to 80,000 units in the world population which is pretty cool. Not that any computer we have to ever come close to handling that at all.

After watching The Killer Meteors last night, I needed to watch a better Chan film to make up for it. So I watched the Columbia-Tristar transfer of Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin.

Min and I went over to dad’s house at 5:00 for some pizza. My family was over and we watched a movie and played some foosball.