Sheep Guarding Llama

Saturday. Today I took my chance to get some time on the Steam laptop to myself. I have been doing a huge amount of web migrations from A Small Orange over to Hostadillo this week so that NTG can close down their ASO contract and save a few hundred dollars a year and now that that is basically done and things have slowed down for the holiday I am taking some time while the cousins spend time playing together to get my winter week of video gaming started.  This is the only real time that I get to play video games all year, pretty consistently.

So after a few years of playing, I am settling in to try to get to the end of Skyrim.  I have a long way to go.  But it gives me a chance to escape and get some quiet time to myself.

The kids all watched a bit of Coyote Peterson together in the upstairs living room today.  That is one of my favourite shows that they watch on YouTube.

Today, Emily and I went out and picked up Subway for the family for dinner.

Friday.

SW was still down today.  They eventually came half up, but were unable to keep their systems working.

I spent much of my day migrating workloads from A Small Orange over to Hostadillo.  That was a lot of work but is going to save the company a lot of money.

For dinner tonight we got Marco’s Pizza which is what the family in Houston eats now.  We have some Marco’s that have opened up near us in Dallas but we have not had a chance to try them out yet, so we don’t know how they are.

The pizza was decent, nothing super exciting but quite good for a chain.

DuoLingo Streak: 110 Days

Thursday. The Steam Winter Sale started today.

Today is present wrapping day.  Have to get the bulk of that done so that there is time for all of the last minute stuff.

This evening I took all of the little kids down to the playground in the neighbourhood.  It’s a hefty walk to get down there with all of them.

I got some quiet time at the house this evening because the kids all went out to look at Christmas lights.

Using the Internet down here has been horrible.  It’s Comcast xFinity, some of the worst Internet in the developed world and certainly worse than we’ve had in Central America.  It’s ridiculously slow and unreliable.  Nothing ever works.  And no one fixes it because this is just how it always is, everyone has gotten used to it.  This alone is a reason to never live in the Houston area, no reliable Internet.  And it costs quite a bit more than our screaming fast, rock solid Frontier fiber in Dallas.

Spiceworks went down today, like hard down.  Down down, to the point that they are all but out of business.  It’s laughable.  Everything is down, their website, their applications that users use, and they didn’t even have monitoring to know about it.  And all of this after their epic outage a few months ago where everyone found out that they had no redundancy and no failover plan and no IT staff to deal with anything and now, months later, nothing has been addressed.  What incompetence!  It’s ridiculous that anyone has the cluelessness to think that they are in any way a technical organization.

Tonight we watched The Santa Con.

DuoLingo Streak: 109 Days

Wednesday.  This morning it was me watching the kids at the house in Houston while the family was all out shopping and running errands, as always happens as we approach Christmas.  Crazy kids everywhere.  Wore me out very quickly.

DuoLingo Streak: 108 Days

Tuesday.

Maniac Mansion, the classic LucasArts point and click adventure, has finally released for the first time in decades.  It is available now on GOG and, of course, I had to pick it up.  This is one that I have been waiting for for a very long time.  I never got to play it when it was new, and it has never gone back on the market since the 1980s!

The Steam Winter sale starts in two days.  In the mean time the GOG Winter Sale is underway.

This morning I went out and picked up Taco Bell for breakfast.  They do the best breakfast.  Their California crunch wrap is amazing.

This evening, the girls requested that we go out to Denny’s for dinner.  So funny how much they love it there.

I discovered that while I often struggle to find something that I want for a meal at Denny’s that I could put some things together and make something that I really like.  So I do a double side salad, with ranch dressing, and get their side of fried shrimp and have them put it all together.  It looked so good that the kitchen came out to check on it because they wanted to try it, too.

It was a nice outing for dinner, just me and my girls.