Sheep Guarding Llama

Eric managed to stop by yesterday and have some lunch. This is his first time making it out to our new house! Can you believe it. We have been here for five months now. We grabbed lunch at the Heights Cafe & Grill. It was amazing but I won’t bore you with the details. All of that is available in the review at Ithaca Portal. That is The Heights Cafe Review.

So last night, for the first time in ages, we actually sat around and played a little CircleMUD 3. We haven’t played that since Josh, Loopy and I lived in Greece in 1999. It was very nostalgic to get to play again. Josh played from Rochester and Min and I played here in Ithaca. We ran the system on, of all things, my laptop. It worked on though. Can’t complain. In fact, it is still running now. I don’t know how long we will keep it running – and the address is subject to change – but sometime in the future we will get a real solid one up and running. You can go to your command prompt (or xterm in UNIX) or MS-DOS prompt on Windows 9x and simply type ” telnet 24.58.52.163 4000 ” and it should connect you right up. If you want an even better experience, find a nice telnet client or MUD client to help you out.

Dominica’s car insurance ran out at midnight last night so that was exciting. We spent much of the day dealing with that. It is all settled now and she can legally drive again.

For my birthday, Dominica’s mom got me a bag of really cool Russian chocolates. I have been eating a bit of them every day. I am almost out now. They are really good. They are quite interesting – very different than the chocolates that you find most places.

There is yet another Anne update available. I am so slow at putting them up that there is another one the day after I got the last one up. Sorry about that, I will try to do better.

Dominica is studying web design now. She is also complaining that I don’t mention her enough on the site. She is wearing a really bright green fleece today. It is made out of recycled bottle caps or something. Pretty crunchy if you ask me. Dominica Dominica Dominica Dominica Dominica. I hope she feels better now:) She and I had dinner at Taco Bell today. The concert was really good last night. Neil Diamond still knows how to put on a show.

Miranda is up down from North Bay and brought cookies with her. Dominica says that she makes the best cookies. Ihad one last time but I am not much of an oatmeal cookie fan. This time they are double chocolate chip so I dare not eat one or I will be addicted.

Ok, so there isn’t really a February 29 this year but I had to add it in anyway so that we can officially offer a Happy Birthday to Eric. Hopefully Eric no longer has to open all of his B-Day presents between 12:00am and 12:01am. But maybe Amanda will carry on the tradition.

It is so nice being home. But then nothing much happens when I am home so the site is kind of boring (at least it is better than getting nothing when I am always away.) It is the beginning of the Llama birthday season – everyone remember to send out your electronic greeting cards. Scott, Eric, Nate and Josh are the first up for the season.

Tomorrow, Dominica and I are going to go see Neil Diamond at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester tomorrow evening. We are very excited. That is going to be a really cool concert.

The market must be looking up today. Loopy got called about two job leads, got four hours of at home contract work and I got a call about a contract next week in Syracuse. Considering that I am not actively searching for anything, that is pretty amazing. I even got a call out of the blue from another recruiter last week. So things are looking good in general if I can sense anything from here.

I actually had the chance to talk to Anne online today for the first time in months. She is doing well. In addition to getting to talk to Anne, update number eleven from her is posted as well. There is a funny story connected with talking to Anne but I will save that for tomorrow’s posting (now you are all hooked. Just can’t wait till tomorrow can you.) Remember, tomorrow is March 1, not February 29.

I am back to doing restaurant reviews in Ithaca as well for Ithaca Portal. There are eleven (today’s episode of Sheep Guarding Llama is brought to you by the number eleven.) reviews there now. Not all that many but it is a start. Someday there will be a ton of them.

Miranda is coming up to visit us (ok, coming up to visit Loopy) tomorrow all the way from North Bay, a whole seven hours away. Natalie is not visiting us as she is too busy sun bathing in Florida. Hopefully Miranda will remember to bring pictures with her to put up on the web site!

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.