Sheep Guarding Llama

Don’t get excited but this is two updates in a row. It is so nice to be at home again. I miss my house. I miss my bed. Most of all I miss my computer:) I hate having to work on a laptop.

At least while I have been away I have had a chance to pick up a lot of great movies on DVD! My collection is really doing well.

I got to have birthday dinner last night at Banfi’s at the Statler Hotel here in Ithaca. What a great place.

IthacaPortal.com has actually had some work done to it over the last day. I am glad to say that it is finally updated, as well as this site. It really needed it. It looks better too.

Trillian .725 is out now and it allows you to, once again, connect to AOL Instant Messenger. I am sure that they will try to block us again shortly but for now we are back online.

Yes, updates are really coming. And… today is my big 26th birthday. I just made it home today so don’t complain about me not putting updates up yet. I am working on it, trust me. Dominica and I are going to Banfi’s at the Statler Hotel for dinner. I am very excited.

After fifty hours of John working on his computer and another five hours of me working on it, we finally have audio functioning on John’s computer that he built (similar to the ones that Josh and I are building.) It turned out to be an operating system problem (Win2K) and not a problem with the hardware that we were working with so that was a relief. But boy was that a lot of work. We also got TV tuning working on Dominica’s computer.

Last week, Loopy, Bob and I finally got the chance to play our first game of Quake II this year! It was a lot of fun but we are terribly out of shape. We just aren’t as good as we used to be. It was fun though, I miss our regular gaming sessions. I am hoping to convince everyone to play some AoE2 tonight but I doubt that that will really happen. We all have too much to do. Check out more Llama content in our 2001 Archives. (The archives as such no longer exist as the site was migrated to WordPress.)

Ok, the big news for the day is the huge updates to the Pictures section. Nine more pictures have been added to the New Year’s Eve pics and a new page of pics from the Canadian’s trip to New York City has been added. I am still waiting for more pictures from both of these events from people. I am hoping to get some more this weekend.

I am playing at home with a new laptop and wireless internet access. It is really cool. I can work on the site from anywhere now. I am having a lot of fun with that.

Another piece of the Mandrake installation sage. Even though I managed to get the Sims installed and working on Dominica’s computer, I was never able to get 3D graphics acceleration to work – even though she has a $200 GeForce 3 Ti 200 card in her machine, just like Mandrake suggests having. So I finally had enough and I installed SuSE Linux 7.3 and was able to, in just one evening, install the entire operating system, get the Sims installed AND make the graphics card work. Whoo-hoo. No more Mandrake for me!

I passed my Server+ exam. One more thing to add to the old resume. Whoo-hoo! After taking the Server+ exam, I was all pumped so I took an additional exam and passed that as well. All in all, a pretty successful day.

I have finally reached that point in my life when it is easier to just not bother taking things back that don’t work. I have a video game that I purchased not too long ago that I had sitting around my room so that I could take it back. After it sat for a few weeks, I decided that I might as well just put it on the shelf because I was never really going to return it. So now it sits on my shelf with the rest of my video game collection. I have no idea what I will ever do with it. But at least I have it.

I don’t think that people who work near where they live ever come to appreciate how nice it can be to know that you don’t have to be away from home. It is a cold winter day, today, and I am so glad that I only have to leave the house for one small trip to Syracuse. That seems like it wouldn’t be all that important, but just knowing that I get to sleep in my own bed and site on my own chair and relax in front of my own computer is really important sometimes.

Ok, in addition to local news, Anne’s tenth Bio update is now available and her Bio page has been updated so you can connect to her last two bios entries now as well. Also, since Anne has had such a terrible time with her Hotmail account (and just because we hate Hotmail), Sheep Guarding Llama is giving Anne her own email account. You can now reach Anne at (email address removed in 2005).

This evening, Loopy and I are taking Bob and Dominica down to Binghamton to see the Lord of the Rings. This will be my third time seeing it.

I posted today’s update a little early on in the day to be sure that everyone is aware that I am back and actively working on the page. I moved the last of the 2001 material out to the archives page which is now a “complete” record of Sheep Guarding Llama in 2001 minus the month and a half that was accidentally erased at the beginning of the year. Be warned, going to the archive page will take a little time to load. Frontpage estimates a 406 second download time on a 28.8Kps modem. What can I say, it was an eventful year.