Sheep Guarding Llama

Today is Loopy’s day off. His new job is only four days a week and he is loving it. This morning, he and I spent hours down at Lifestyle Properties working on their computers there. We ended up bringing one of them back with us because we had to do so much work to it. Loopy is still without a computer of his own until his paycheck clears the back so he can afford the memory that he needs for it to get it working again.

Happy 24th Birthday to Natalie Clarke our Canadian Blonde!!

Eric came down first thing this morning because we needed to get his computer set up and he had to drop off a computer that needed to be prepared for deployment at the University of Rochester Medical Center. In the process of switching computers around, we managed to come up with an extra 3DFX VooDoo 4 graphics card that Bob is going to be using as an upgrade from his VooDoo 3. So he is excited to try Quake 2 again to see how it will look (I remember way back when, when I first upgraded from the VooDoo 3 to the VooDoo 4 on my old PII 350 128MB machine and it was pretty noticeable then – Bob’s PIII 500 384MB machine should really be noticeable.) Bob was also mentioning that he was all nostalgic to play Quake 2 because he was reading the archive of SGL yesterday while he was at school. The archives are almost 2 1/2 years of SGL happenings and news. Isn’t that hard to believe? We have been doing this site for an awfully long time.

I finally caught up on the old dailies and there shouldn’t be any more gaps. I will try hard to keep up again. I should be in town for at least another week so it should be easier to do.

After getting our work done, Eric and I played a round of Empire Earth. Eric decided that he needed to get himself a copy to play on his new computer because he had only played it a little bit and I whooped him pretty bad.

Last night, after going out for dinner at Maxie’s Supper Club for Zach’s birthday, Min and I went to the movie theatre (and got in for free!) to see X-Men 2. I thought that it was a bit better than the first one and so did Min. The guys all went to see it two nights ago and thought it was about the same as the first movie.

After doing tons of work on that terrible Sony VAIO Picturebook, I finally have it mostly working and am ready to start installing the Waste Watcher software on it. What a pain! I am also installing Windows XP Pro on Eric’s old machine at the same time. Keeps me busy that way.

Tomorrow is Andy’s day off so he will actually be home during the day. But he will probably be sleeping for the first half of it.

Tons more time working on the crappy Sony VAIO laptop. I can’t believe what a pain this thing is. I can’t even begin to express how much I hate Sony for having scrapped all of the work that I had done previously on this thing. What jerks they are.

Well, that is the bulk of my day today. Just working on that laptop thing.

I have been trying out the new web and email clients, Firebird and Thunderbird respectively, from the Mozilla project. I didn’t think that I was going to like having the browser split up but it does react a bit faster and I like the new look. Thunderbird is still pretty quirky but Firebird is working really well. I like it and am using at my main browser now. It seems to have most of the advantages of both Mozilla/Netscape and Opera. So it is nice.

Andy is really enjoying his new job with Carrier in Syracuse. This is his second week there and he is getting all kinds of stuff done for them. He really likes the environment and hopes that they will find a way to keep him longer than the original contract was expected to be. But that never happens so it isn’t likely.

I am busy getting papers taken care of today and trying to get things moving with the house in Geneseo. I can’t seem to get my banker on the phone.

It looks like things are going ok for getting the wedding back on track in Wyoming in October. We will see but at least things look better.

Eric is coming down to Ithaca tomorrow to get some work done down here and to deliver a computer that is being re-outfitted for use at the University of Rochester.

I am finally starting to catch up on all of the dailies that have been missing. It has been a really busy and stressful last couple of weeks so please bare with me. I have put in marker day names for the days that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I will have them filled in shortly.

The weather was beautiful today with a little bit of rain this evening. The gang is planning on going to see X2 tonight. I am not a fan of X-Men, nor did I like the first movie (it wasn’t as bad as I had expected, though.) But everyone is going to see it and Min and I need to get out of the house and just relax for a little bit so it sounds like a good idea.

The plans for the wedding are on hold right now. We don’t know what is going on with it so everyone should hang loose and don’t be offended if things change unexpectently. Min and I did get to go out after work today and do some shopping for wedding bands. We found the ones that we want and we hope to be able to place an order for them tomorrow.

I spend a bit of the day today working on the totally crap Sony VAIO laptop. Don’t ever buy a Sony computer product. Their computers and their service is awful. This thing has cost us more in internal IT resources than any other piece of hardware we have ever purchased. And sending it back to Sony for repairs (which we have to do on a regular basis because the thing is total junk) gets us nowhere either since it is Sony’s policy to wipe your harddrive every time they just look at your computer so you are stuck doing all kinds of work on it no matter what. Totally unprofessional. We would literally save money by driving over this laptop and buying something decent instead.

Eric is planning on working down here sometime this week, either tomorrow or Thursday. I am hoping to get my car into the shop sometime this week but I am sure that that will never happen. I need a checkup and a headlight fixed and I have a brake that is dragging. Everything hits all at once, doesn’t it?

Finally, a day at home. This is my first day working at home for more than a week and I am really enjoying it. Too bad that there is so much going on that I can’t really relax but I suppose that it is better than nothing. I had to deal with my lawyer today and the bank as I try to get things finalized with the house in Geneseo. Only a little bit left to deal with and everything should be done (knock on wood.) I had to get rid of John’s email address of surfingitwizard because he was getting so much spam from there.

I moved the April dailies out to the archives today. So head out there to see what has been going on. If you have never checked out the archives, they are HUGE. So give it a look see.