Sheep Guarding Llama

Just another Manic Monday. Snow storm today. Danielle and I had planned on doing sales today but the weather is bad so we decided against it. I spent the day working from home. I got a lot of work done for once. I installed a new Windows 2003 Small Business Server today. I have it set up as a second firewall for our commercial DSL line. We now have both of our DSL lines connected and hooked up to the network. It is nice to have the extra bandwidth and reliability now.

Andy was supposed to be flying into Buffalo this afternoon but he took too long driving in traffic in Puerto Rico and missed his flight. So he isn’t sure when he is going to be coming back home now.

This evening, Min and I went up to the city to get me some new shoes because my old ones are letting snow come into them through the soles. So it took us a while to get find anything that we really liked but we did eventually find something. We also went to PetsMart and got some presents for our little hamster. We did some other shopping and then stopped by Hollywood Video. We got Hollywood Homicide with Harrison Ford and Two Weeks Notice with Hugh Grant.

Min and I actually got up early enough to make it to church but decided that because of the snow that we would get some breakfast and just go to church in Geneseo so that we wouldn’t have to drive very far.

After church, we headed on down to Leicester for a little while to visit with my grandmother. Normally dad visits on Sundays but the weather was awfully bad. After our visit, we came back home and just skulked around for the afternoon.

Friday. It’s game night tonight. Arti, Phil, Josh, Jeremy and I all made it. It was nice to have five players. Art and Jeremy both came over before 5:00 pm. So the three of us got two games in before dinner. Then Jeremy, Min and I went to the Omega Grill for some dinner before the real games started. Everyone else arrived around 9:00. We kept having problems with computers crashing, though, and so we ended up playing three games that we weren’t able to finish. We played until almost 6:00 am. We only managed to get a single game in! That is a total of about twelve hours of playing.

John and I went into Washington to do a little bit of work this morning. I took down one of our servers so that we could move it up to New York. Phil came into the office today to clean out his desk. We spent some time standing out on the dock in the rain talking. We got back to Annapolis just in time to get everything packed up so that Min and I could head out of town to get back home. Min has to work tonight so we have to get back.

The drive took about seven hours and there was fog and rain for a lot of it. I was really exhausted by the time we got back to Geneseo and Min was already about half an hour late for work. We got into the house and within thirty seconds of walking into the house, the Christmas tree collapsed onto the hamster’s cage. What a mess. The tree stand was full of water with chemicals in the water to help keep the tree alive and it poured out all over the floor. We also had some ornaments break (luckily nothing sentimental.) The hamster and the cage were okay, just had to be put back together (although Mr. Humphrey’s keeps asking us for valium.) He seems to be under a lot of stress recently. I moved the tree out to the garage so that we could clean up the floor and ended up breaking a lot of ornaments as I carried it out. Min ended up being over an hour late for work and I stayed up until 3:00 am cleaning up what I could from the mess. I am pretty sure that we managed to avoid any permanent carpet damage. But boy was I tired by the time I finally got to bed.

Can you believe that updates continue to come through even when I am out of town? How long has it been since that happened? Min and I slept in late this morning at the hotel and didn’t go over to John and Michelle’s until 11:00. That actually worked out well because John hadn’t even showered yet anyway. And Michelle is always awake/asleep with the baby so she doesn’t care what the schedule is. Min and I ran out to the Double T Diner for some lunch. Min loves going to the Double T when we are down here. They are very similar to Jay’s back in Rochester.

I spent most of the day with the laptop sitting on my lap. I sat on the futon upstairs with Nila sitting next to me. What a great cat. I need a cat like that. She is so cuddly. More cuddly than almost any dog I have ever known. Min spent most of the day in the living room knitting. She got lots done today. In fact, she did so much that she ran out of knitting projects to work on. She only brought so much with her and she did too much today. Andy ordered his new computer today. He is getting a Shuttle XPC because Min’s is so cool. Andy will be home on Monday and will be staying in New York for almost a month. He won’t be heading back to Puerto Rico until January 8. So he will REALLY be loving his time in good old New York.

We watched movies this evening while I worked on the laptop. We watched Spirit, some Dr. Seuss cartoon and then The Re-animator which is one of John’s all time favorite movies. It is an interesting film. Not up to par with the Evil Dead movies, though.

For those of you who use SmoothWall Firewall, version 2.0 final came out today. You can download it now. Also, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 released.

Leanne hates her evening job at the car dealership so she has decided to give that up. She has been answering phones for a dealership on the east side of the city but it hasn’t been very much fun. John Stephens just told me that he is in the process of moving to his first appartment. He got a place in Endicott where he is working now. He is very excited.