Sheep Guarding Llama

It was nice to get to sleep in for a day. I heard Andy get up about an hour before me this morning and head off to his family’s holiday feast. Min slept in until 2:00 which is actually a pretty short night. I got up and watched National Lampoon’s Vacation which I haven’t seen in forever and I am not sure that I have ever seen all the way through. I have seen most of it a few times but it is actually surprising how few times I have seen it. It is funny to see them using an Apple IIe to play video games and to plan out their trip. It is funny to think about what people thought computers were like back then. Although, think about how ridiculous computers in movies are going to look when we look back on them today. Its strange how few people watch movies and don’t notice that the computers that they see are nothing at all like the computers that they use everyday. But if cars were so different in movies (other than people acting like they are racing when they are driving 20-30 mph!) then people would really notice and think it looked really dumb.

Andy got in around 11:00 pm last night. He had pizza on the way home so he wasn’t hungry when he got here. It is weird having him back here. We sat up and watched Desperado Superbit on the projector. He hasn’t seen it since we got it. He was really impressed with it.

Min and I went to lunch at my aunt and uncles in Leicester. We had all the Thanksgiving foods (less the turkey of course) and then played some fictionary and sequence or something like that.

After dinner, Min and I came home around 9:00. Nate and Tammy stopped by to pick me up on the way to Tahoes. We headed up to Rochester for our Eigth Annual gang Thanksgiving at Nick Tahous. We figured it out tonight and we are pretty sure that our first ever Thanksgiving at Tahous was 1996. Every year we have this discussion and try to figure out when it first was that we went there. So if anyone knows at details to help determine for sure how many years it has been, let me know. But unless we hear otherwise, 1996 is the official start. Joe, Bob and I can conclusively prove that we could not have started in 1995 or sooner so 1996 is the first year that it could have been. We a full dozen make it this year. Min was not able to go because she had to go to work but she wasn’t very heartbroken. Dinner was good and the place wasn’t very busy.

After Tahous, we went out to the parking lot and discovered that Nate’s Ford Explorer had been broken into and Tammy’s wallet and about twenty of Nate’s CDs had been stolen. The only damage to Nate’s car was the lock being broken on the driver’s side door.

Nate and Tammy dropped me off at the house. Andy was there watching Are You Being Served? on the projector. Nate and Tammy stopped by for a little while but couldn’t stay because they had to get back to Perry so that they could deal with the stolen wallet.

Okay, well you finally got a real update today so everyone should be happy. I haven’t been checking the logs to see how many people have been coming to the site for a long time so I will be very depressed if I discover that everyone has stopped reading it. I plan on running a total report at the end of December to see how things have been all year. It would be nice to see that our readership has been going up.

Min, Dad and I went up to the city this morning to run some errands. Dad needed to go up so Min and I tagged along. We did a little shopping and little banking and then we went to lunch with Eric at Jay’s Diner. We ended up spending hours at lunch! Min and I didn’t end up getting back home until almost 4:00. It was mostly another really slow day today. I have been diligent at doing the updates now for a couple of days but nothing has been happening so these must be the most boring updates ever. Andy is coming home this evening. He called a few hours ago from Philly to say that he was in transit. We expect to see him around 11:00 or so.

Min has to work tonight. She is scheduled to work on all the holidays this year. Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years! She has to work tomorrow night too. It makes for a very hectic season. While she was relaxing before Min went to work, we watched Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. I don’t think that I like this movie very much. I don’t appreciate media that justifies evil in society. I think that it is an abuse of the power of the media. This movie, while not totally making it look alright, spends too much time justifying the actions of a drug addicted child abuser. We have now watched 1,930 shows on LD and DVD. The average cost per view is down to just $5.14. Ok, ok, I know no one cares but me but I am obsessed so get over it. I am thinking about taking some classes on cinema and trying to teach occasionally. I think teaching cinema would be a lot of fun. I have tons of experience (if reading lots of books makes you an English teacher.) I have a personal collection that I could use for my classes so that might work out well. GCC offers cinema classes and that would be a nice environment to teach in.

Danielle and Michael came over this morning. Min and I watched Michael while Danielle went to his parent teacher conference. Michael watched some movies and played some video games. Oh to be young again. Oh, wait, that is what I do everyday! LOL Danielle and I were supposed to go out doing sales today but I was running too late so we decided that it would be better to wait until next week. I might go to DC next week to tie up some stuff but we will wait to see about that. If I go down, it will only be for a couple of days.

This morning I discovered mouse number seventeen in the kitchen. Min and I took him with us when we drove to Batavia for my doctor’s appointment. We are dropping mice off all over the countryside. Dad says that we are strengthening the gene pool of the mice outside of Geneseo. We had lunch in Batavia after my appointment.

Dominica went out today and got her fair cut really short. I worked at home most of the day. Mostly productive, more than usual. It is really nice to have so much of the office done downstairs. Having the shelves in place is really helping things. I have been able to put away four or five plastic totes of stuff that we have had stored and that has really cleared up some space in the basement.

Andy is coming home on Wednesday. He is coming home for Thanksgiving. He has to go back on Sunday so it will be a very short visit. It will be nice to have him home for a little bit. We start to forget what it is like to have someone around. This evening, Min and I watched more of Faulty Towers. Min really likes the series.

Sunday. Min and I actually managed to get up this morning and make it to LaGrange for church. Our first time in weeks. After church we went over to dad’s and we all went out to lunch at the diner in Texaco town. We had to drop off dad’s car at the shop in Pavilion. After lunch, we came back home to meet Art, Danielle and Michael. Art and I got to work in the basement. Art worked on the electrical in the office in the basement while I worked at rearranging the shelving units. We got them moved into more or less the positions where they will be when we finish the basement. We got the bookshelves back up so that I could start putting books onto the shelves which is really important since I have been unable to use any of my books for months since they have all been packed up into plastic totes. It is really nice to have access to them again. I forgot how many books I had.

Danielle cooked dinner and brought it over. It was nice to be able to eat at home. After Art and Danielle went home, Min and I watched Fawlty Towers that we picked up last night. I am not a huge fan of Fawlty Towers, it is okay, but not up to par with a lot of the shows that we have been watching. Min really likes it. We were surprised to learn that there were only ever twelve episodes of the show ever made. So many famous British shows were so short lived. We are used to American television shows running for years and years if they are popular. But in England, they often write a set number of shows and the show is simply done when they have exhausted the idea. It is nice because the show doesn’t linger on after it is no longer interesting.

SUSE Linux 9.0 was released for download today. I started downloading it this afternoon from the Suiss mirrors because the American ones didn’t have it yet. It is a 7 GB download so it will take a very long time.

I captured our sixteenth mouse today. It was caught in the trap on my desk in my office.