Sheep Guarding Llama

Loopy, John and I got up super early this morning and headed out to Rotterdam to start another week of work out there. But, because of the holiday and the snow yesterday, it will be a really short week of work. We managed to time the drive perfectly and were only about five minutes early arriving at the site. It turns out that the facility where we start the day had had a water main break over the weekend and it had damaged the elevator. Normally, this wouldn’t be such a big deal but we have to move a large number of computers up and down that elevator for two hours every morning. So we REALLY got our excercise today. We are really hoping that they get that elevator fixed ASAP because it is really rough moving computers this way. But, we can’t really complain too much because it is so much warmer than it was last week. That was the worst. The weather was beautiful today.

My parents went to Ithaca today to take care of Min. She was feeling pretty decent today but thought that it would be best if someone was there to make sure that she was okay.

After working at Schenectady International all day, we came back to the Days Inn where we have been staying and I took a shower before heading off to help out with a computer for a small business over in Rotterdam Junction. They are paying us in huge amounts of free food. It is working out really well. I put in 4.5 hours of extra work this evening and will probably do some more work next week but we are really enjoying the free food. It really helps with keeping the cost of doing a project like this down.

Leanne has been chosen to direct the Perry High School musical this spring on May 9th and 10th. They don’t know what the show is going to be yet. She just told me tonight so I thought that I would pass allow the schedule to you so that you could all put it on your calendars. I will try to keep you up to date as to what the show is going to be.

It has already been a really long first day here in Schenectady so I am going to turn in.

Today is my extra day, meaning I was supposed to be working in Rotterdam today but I got a reprieve because of the blizzard. I have to go to bed early, though, because we are going to Rotterdam first thing in the morning tomorrow and I am already really tired. I stayed up late last night trying to make myself be tired so that I would go to bed early tonight. I did some additional work on the terminal server today trying to tweak it some more. I really like this project, it is a lot of fun.

Dominica is feeling quite a bit better today. She is still off of her feet most of the time but she is a bit more independant then she has been and she seems to be in much better spirits. She did have to make a trip to her doctor’s, though, and the car ride was quite rough for her. She isn’t able to get into or out of the car easily and traveling is the worst. So she probably would have been even better had she not had to go out there. She did get prescriptions for some new medicines to try.

Happy President’s Day. Today we were hit with a terrible blizzard that has already buried Maryland in snow. Viriginia reported as much as 40″ in places. We got it pretty bad here too but nearly as bad as south of here. Loopy, John and I called in to work and told them that we couldn’t make it out for work tomorrow because the snow was just too bad to drive that far in. We are lucky that the team from New York City also decided that the weather was too bad to go to work so we didn’t loose any work by not going in. So, that definitely worked out in our favor.

I spent the day working on finally getting that Linux terminal server up and running. It is running now and it works really well. It is really neat to be able to go to any computer in the house and just pop in a floppy disk, restart the computer and suddenly be sitting at the screen of my computer from my room. It works great. I can’t wait to get around to implementing this at the office in DC. I think that this will really make managing that site a lot easier.

An uneventful day. Min’s back is still really bad. She spent the entire day in bed. She has gotten off of the narcotic painkiller that she was using and is just on Alleve because the narcotics where making her push her back too hard and even start to hallucinate. So she decided that they were a bad idea. Her back is marginally better today than yesterday.

I spent most of the day continuing to tackle my Linux terminal server project that I have been working on for DC and taking care of Min. Very slow day.

I wanted to get a lot done today but I have a bad sinus headache. Min is still hurting pretty bad and taking a lot of medicine to keep the pain under control. Today ended up being mostly just a resting day. I really didn’t feel that I could handle thinking about very much so I didn’t. Loopy actually got up at a normal time today and worked during the day instead of at night. How weird. I spent most of the day online trying to be productive but mostly failing at it. I did get some work done so don’t think that I was totally slacking off but not a whole lot was done. At least I got the updates for the site posted for my loyal readers who notice whenever I fall behind. I kept calling people today but couldn’t find anyone that I needed to do work so that help give me a pretty good excuse.

Loopy spent the day working on LoopyOS, his new operating system. It is really coming along. I can’t believe how much he has managed to get done on it. You can’t play Quake or run the Apache web server yet but he is getting there. One step at a time. It is a big undertaking trying to make an operating system so give him some time.

I noticed today that my Brainbench subscription got renewed automatically so I am wondering where that money came from because I wasn’t aware of it happening? Hmmm… Blink and your money is gone.

I am trying Mozilla 1.3b and so far it seems to be pretty crash happy. I have been online a bit this evening but it has crashed on me two or three times tonight alone. So I am not too impressed so far. It isn’t a final release so I can’t be too critical.

Late tonight Min decided to give up on the narcotic based pain killer that the hospital gave her because it is making her really not feel well and she switched to Alleve (or the generic equivalent.) Hopefully she will start feeling better once she manages to get that stuff out of her system.

I am wearing my new $12 jeans from Walmart and they are pretty nice. Loopy likes his too. I can’t believe how nice they are for how cheap they were. Well worth the money, I think. I was really happy with the polo shirts that I got from there cheap too. I really need to shop at Walmart more often. It is amazing how much money you can save that you just didn’t realize you could. I could easily save $100 a year on clothes alone there.

Well, it has been an uneventful day and there just isn’t much to say about it so I will call it a night. Have a good weekend. Don’t forget that Monday is President’s Day and you might not have to go to work.