Sheep Guarding Llama

I spent the day working in Syracuse again. Today went a bit more smoothly than yesterday. But of course the day started off with our mail service from our web server being down. So I was panicking about that at 5:30 am before going out to Syracuse for the day. But after I got to Syracuse, everything seemed to settle down and the day went well. Tully and I barely had to do any work at all today.

Finally, my DVD of Disney’s The Moon-Spinners came in the mail. I am really excited about it. I didn’t get to watch it tonight, though, but I hope to get to see it tomorrow. Tomorrow I am going to see Empire State College to get my butt back in gear on my schooling and then I am having lunch with Steve Lucente.

This morning, the telephone service in Ithaca was down. It appeared that all land lines in the 607 area code from Verizon were down. Anyone that I called in the area, including the llama house, Lifestyle Properties, Ajilon, etc. – Verizon just said that the phones had been disconnected. But they came back on in the middle of the day.

Loop, Min and I went out to dinner at the State St. Diner and then came home and played a pretty good game of Empire Earth. I like that game a bit more than either of them do but I am hopeful that it will be a strong multiplayer game in the future. Microsoft has a new real time strategy game coming soon that we are looking forward to too.

Loopy (aka Andy) had a job interview in Rochester this morning. He won’t know how it went until Friday.

Min and I slept in really late this morning after being out so late last night. Around noon everyone was finally moving around the house and Min, Jen and I went down to the Tavern for some lunch. We were planning on doing a little bit of wine trailing but I was feeling really awful from last night so we nixed that idea. Lunch was great but I really couldn’t eat it. We came back to the house and Jen left shortly thereafter to head up to the mall in Waterloo.

Min, Loopy and I played a multiplayer round of Empire Earth. I can’t believe that we have owned that game since LAST Christmas and never played it against each other even once. It was a lot of fun. A lot better than we thought that it would be since the single player version isn’t very good. I bet we will be playing a bit of this game in the near future.

Today we mark the passing of MyMiranda.net. The site has been down for a few weeks but we finally removed the link to it.

I am way behind on the updates but hang in there gang, I will try to fill in the missing days as quickly as I can and I might even be able to keep up. My laptop went to the shop last week and it really through me off for a little while.

Jen Middleton came out to Ithaca to visit with us today. This is her first time coming down to visit us in Ithaca. She tried to make it down for the party on the pond not too long ago but that didn’t work out so well. She got into town in the middle of the afternoon. Jen, Bob, Min and I all went down to Turbacks for some drinks and appetizers. After a few hours at Turbacks we piled in the car and drove up to Collegetown and went to Stella’s. We had some more drinks there and then more appetizers. The food for the evening was really good. We had a good time.

John Stephens came out to Ithaca this evening to hang out and work on Gordon (John bought him off of me a few months ago. He has him running a bit better than I ever did.) We worked on the computer for a while and the whole gang went out to the Dryden Queen Diner for a little dinner afterwards.

We got back after dinner and watched some Father Ted. John made it through about one episode before falling asleep. Loopy and I made it through half of season three.

Meeting today at my parent’s house in Pavilion. I headed out of town early this morning and drove straight to Lakeville to take care of some things with the house. We are moving along nicely with that right now.

After visiting the realtor, I headed over to my dad’s house where Eric and Phil (our DOO from DC) met us and we worked for the afternoon. We had a good time. It was Phil’s first time in the area and he really liked the view from my parent’s house.