Sheep Guarding Llama

I am just taking this weekend to get some work done around the house. This is only my third actual day of being in the house so I am just happy to be here. I will be updating the site as I can but it is pretty impossible at this point. There is a ton of work that needs to be done in the house from clearing the garage out a little bit to getting things hung up on walls and everything in between. The basement is still a disaster too.

This was a short trip to Washington. Only two days. That is probably the way that it should be. In short bursts, things tend to get done a little bit faster. Today we got the computer at Children’s National Med Center all set up and ready to go. But, late in the day we discovered that the barcode scanner that is supposed to be used over there is not working with that computer so we have to get a new one and ship it down there. Figures that after all that work, there is still a major issue like the scanner not functioning. I headed back to Geneseo late in the afternoon after getting Children’s relatively squared away.

Back in DC again. Just a short trip this time. Two nights at the Comfort Inn.

I really wanted to get some Domino’s pizza and cheesy dots today but I got back to the hotel so late that I didn’t get a chance to. Instead, I went out to dinner with John and Michelle to Macaroni Grill in Annapolis. I have never been there before. It is very comparable to Olive Garden or any other cookie cutter Italian Restaurant.

Mice numbers 6 and 7 were caught last night. Maybe we are actually getting to the end of them by now. Well, we can hope at least.

Today I have to head back down to Washington for a couple of days because I didn’t manage to get there over the weekend. This will be my first long trip in the “6”. I worked around the house a little bit this morning and spent some time with Min before she went off to her second day at Youngs and Linfoot. She and I had lunch at the Geneseo Family Restaurant before she went to work. She won’t be real busy with stuff for them for at least a week so we took the chance to see each other for a little bit.

The carpenters came and did some more work on our deck this morning. The deck is now completely built but still needs to be painted. They couldn’t paint it today though because it was pouring down rain. I am just happy to finally have a deck that we can really use and not look funny or have parts laying all around it. Min has been iching to get the lawn bar put together and set out on the deck. Maybe she and Andy will get around to getting that done before I get back. That would be nice. That bar set takes up a ton of garage space that we really need so that we can get two cars into the garage.

I hit the road for DC around 3:30 and arrived at the Comfort Inn at 10:00. Easy drive and I stopped at Taco Bell for dinner and Dairy Queen for a Bubblegum Blizzard (Min and Andy think that bubblegum ice cream is gross.) Min got a call about a part time job today and she went off to have an interview. She thinks that it went really well so we should hear something about that sometime pretty soon.

I was supposed to be going to DC today but I needed to wait for some software to be shipped and it didn’t arrive until today so I get to hold off until tomorrow on my travels. I am happy because I have gotten so little time to be at the new house that I appreciate every opportunity. I did catch two more mice today. That is the fourth and fifth mice so far. This is beginning to be an epidemic.

Min started at Youngs and Linfoot today. She only worked for a couple of hours though. Mostly I got to relax today but Min and I had to run some errands. So in the afternoon we ran to the Verizon store and my parents’ house and my Aunt and Uncle’s house and then up to Home Depot to exchange some stuff for the house. We got back from Home Depot and Andy installed a bunch of bathroom hardware for us. The house is slowly taking shape. Tomorrow we hope to have blinds and stuff on most of the windows. It sucks not being able to control the sunlight right now. We did manage to locate most of the critical kitchen supplied today. We have been dying for some silverware.