Sheep Guarding Llama

Friday. In Houston still for Thanksgiving and Liesl’s birthday.

Really no news here.  I spent the day working, as usual.  There has been no news from the office, it has been radio silence for weeks.  For a company that was ridiculously concerned with trying to get things done on a project by the end of the year, they sure stopped working on the very first day!  I keep getting told that I am “on deck” to head to Qatar any day and that I need to just be ready.  But it is weeks without so much as a peep from them.  This is getting incredibly frustrating.

The kids all play Skyrim any moment that they get.  Something about them all being together, the littles that is, makes them all want to play Skyrim.  And, of course, our Steam laptop is the only one with a copy, so there is not enough to even begin to go around.

Thursday. Happy Thanksgiving!

Lots of cooking today, of course.  Hung out in the kitchen this morning with Dominica while she was making dinner.

The kids played Skyrim all day.  That is their thing these days.  Liesl, Luciana, and Garrett are all really into it.  Clara will play it, but doesn’t really get it and doesn’t find it very interesting, but plays it because all of the others do.

Big family dinner at the Grices’ new home.  First really big event here.  They’ve barely had time to move in before this one.

Wednesday.  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.

We are in Houston for the holiday.  All of the kids spent the day playing Skyrim on our Steam laptop.  It is very popular.  It’s amazing how into the game all of the kids are.  Liesl has really gotten into it and is deep into the story and replays parts of it a bit.  She knows the characters and what is going on in the game and really knows how to play it.  She knows parts of the game better than I do.  Luciana still struggles with it, it is a very complex game, but she is getting better and it is still impressive how much she is able to play.  When I was these girls’ ages I definitely could not play games like this.  Of course, when I was their ages, games like this did not exist at all.  So maybe that is not a very fair comparison.  Who knows what I would have been like had there been games of this nature.

Tuesday.  Working on shifting documentation to new systems this morning.  We’ve had it with OneNote and Sharepoint, they are useless.

Dominica and Francesca went out grocery shopping and to pick up doughnuts this morning.

Liesl and Luciana introduced their cousins, Garrett and Clara, to Skyrim today.  That is their new thing.  Now they all want to play it.  A bit of a problem as it is a one player game and we only have one copy of it.

Monday.  Clara went to the clinic this morning.  Double ear infections and a very bad cold.

This evening, I got Madeline to watch some UK travel shows with me, slowly working on getting her to think about the places in the UK that she wants to go see when we head overseas for her graduation in June.  It might sound like it is a ways away, but it will be happening much sooner than it seems.