Sheep Guarding Llama

Today is the first major packing day. I did a bunch of work around the house today and packed all kinds of stuff. I have been packing the DVDs and Laserdiscs and checking them all off as I pack them so we know what is around. There are only a handful of movies that have not been accounted for and only one laserdisc that I can’t find. Dragonheart is missing on LD. I may have just missed it while I was packing them up, though. We will see when we get to the new house. There are quite a few out on loan right now but I think that we know where all or almost all of them are. Min got to come home early from work today at 3:00 so she got to help do a lot of packing to. We were very productive.

Eric had some computer work that had to be done today so he came down around 10:00 this morning and worked out of Nate’s old room all day. He got a lot of work done and learned how to install Windows XP.

Today Andy and I went down to work with Autoworks in Varna. It ended up being an all day affair. But we got a lot of work done. Nothing much to tell, since, all day was spent working down there.

I wrote a very lengthy email today that described exactly why our driver shouldn’t be employed with us any longer. It was very eloquent and did its job well. New driver replacing him started this afternoon.

Finally, my last day in DC. I had been really hoping to be able to get the heck out of here early today but there was just too much work to do so I ended up staying until 10:30pm before driving back to NY. What a long trip that is so late at night. And of course, after waiting all that time and working on so many things, the driver of the truck decided to just not bother to upload his data after I wasn’t there to fire him on the spot. But that is for tomorrow.

I arrived back in Ithaca around 5:00 am and boy was I tired. I went straight to bed. I did manage to listen to the ending of “Life, the Universe and Everything” and all but twenty minutes of “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” which is book four of the Hitchhiker’s Trilogy (yes, book 4 of 3!) Only two more books to go now.

Today was supposed to have been my last day working in DC but, of course, that didn’t happen. I ended up putting in a long day at the office and going out to the Comfort Inn in Annapolis again to spend the night so that I can finish up what needs to be done tomorrow. Nothing exciting happening today other than a lot of Brainbench tests being racked up. I have had a lot of spare time in the office to get to those and I will probably get at very least a handful more of them next week too. Being alone in the office all evening can make one really bored.

Happy Birthday Leanne!

Finally, it is Sunday. My last day working in DC until next week (next week meaning about 2-3 days from now.) Dominica has been staying at her parent’s house in Frankfort and should be heading home tonight as well.

Well, we weren’t able to get as much work done in DC today as we had hoped. Quite a few roadblocks popped up, but nothing that we couldn’t handle.

Ok, change of plans today. I am going to stay in DC tonight and head back to Ithaca tomorrow. We are on a tight deadline here and I need to get as much done here as possible. It is a big relief that we didn’t end up having to move this weekend. That would have been really terrible.

I did manage to find some nice, free, CD Burning Software for Windows called CDBurnerXP Pro. I have been using it and it is pretty good. Unfortunately, it isn’t open source but it is free for personal, non-commercial use so it is better than most anything else that I have tried to use.

It is another long night at the hospital tonight. I will be staying at the Comfort Inn at Bay Dale in Annapolis again. I am beginning to think of that place as home. This will be my third week having stayed there. I will be there at least once a week for a month. Much like my time staying in Schenectady earlier this year. Typical.