Sheep Guarding Llama

Saturday.  I woke up this morning and a child had fallen asleep across my legs so I was trapped and unable to get out of bed for a while.

Today I had a gecko running around the office, he actually climbed onto my Chromebook and hung out on it for a very long time.  This is funny because my main computer runs Gecko Linux.  But the real gecko is on my Chromebook.  Well, I thought that it was funny, anyway.

Liesl got up right away this morning and went straight to the Steam machine so that she could play more XCOM.  She is loving that game.

Dominica made a full breakfast for everyone this morning.

I did a lot of SAMIT YouTube videos today.  They will be posting for a while.

I didn’t eat all day, after the big breakfast, until after midnight when I fried up some veggie burgers for myself.  I’ve learned out to pan fry them and make them really delicious.

At one in the morning, Dominica actually decided to do some house cleaning.

A lot of my day was spent researching what I want to use as a desktop.  I have been using Gecko Linux and I really like it, but it is not quite what I want. I really liked Korora but support seems to be way too slow for it.  Solus lacks some features that I need, namely SodiumSuite support.  Deepin looks really intriguing.  Fedora desktop is getting a lot of love these days, too.

Friday.  For me it was a relatively normal work morning. For me, right now, that means a focus on social media stuff like MangoLassi and Spiceworks.  I’m in a holding pattern as I’m just starting this new COO position in the logistics industry for a company in the Middle East and I am just waiting for my flight out to Phoenix to interview the staff and see how well they are doing. So after our crazy spring and summer, now this is where we are, but for a Friday when I’ve not really gotten into the office yet, there is not too much to focus on so I am keeping on with my posting habits for now.

This morning Liesl started playing XCOM on her own.  She has been loving watching me play and wants to do it herself.  This is not an easy game and it is really impressive that she is able to play it!

By late afternoon the rain from the hurricane was already hitting western Houston hard and they are calling it a disaster before the hurricane itself even gets to them.

I did some work on my YouTube channel today, as well.

So mostly we are watching the news from Houston to see what is happening with everyone there.

I got to play some XCOM tonight, which is very fun and very involved.

Thursday.  Today was mostly a social media day.  Lots of MangoLassi time.  Spiceworks would have gotten a bit of time, but the site was down for much, maybe most, of the day.  They have been having so many technical difficulties now, it’s very evident they no longer have the funding for a real operations team.

So I was online working most of the day.   The girls set up their pop up cafe in the living room and were running their cafe business all day.

This evening the girls and I went on a Pokewalk so that they could play their game in the park near the house.

It wasn’t a super long walk today, but the girls had a great time as they hve not had a chance to do this in a while.  They really like our walks, the greenway by us is so nice.

So that was our big thing this evening.  Several hours of walking and hanging out in the park while Dominica was cooking dinner.

The bigger news, or what would become bigger news, is that there was a hurricane getting closer to Houston tonight.  It wasn’t there yet, and the weather up our way was great.  But there was concern enough that we had told the Grices and Toccos to come up to Dallas to stay with us, but they were told that things were okay and that they should stay in Houston and not evacuate.

Wednesday.  Today is meetings day.  Since I was away this whole week in Missouri I have a lot of catching up to do.  Had to be up early this morning, after my long day of driving yesterday, so that I can get to them.

Today’s meetings went well and I am now the COO of RedLogik from Qatar and I will be heading out to Phoenix, Arizona very soon to interview and get a feel for the crew, see what they have been working on , evaluate the staff and condition of things.  So this is relatively exciting.  A new startup, I’ve been away from startups for a couple of years.  Now I’m heading up both IT (CIO) and development (CTO) in a combined role where I’m overseeing every aspect of the company.  So it’s a COO role, eventually I will hopefully have a CTO and CIO under me.

So today was an interesting day.  We will see what all of this brings in the future.  This is my second serious COO position of the year.  The other one I turned down several weeks ago on ethical and professional grounds.  This one is pretty risky, very much a start up without solid funding, but seems to have real potential.  We will see after my time in Arizona.

This evening, Liesl did not want to go out, but Luciana did.  So Luciana and I went out for a long walk just the two of us.

Tuesday.  The day after the eclipse.  Now that we are done celebrating Dominica’s birthday, we need to get back to Dallas as I have a job that wants me to get started immediately as their new COO and they had to wait for me to go to Missouri for Dominica’s birthday and eclipse party.

So we were up quite early and on the road right away so that we could make the drive and be home in the late afternoon.  It’s not a terrible drive, but it is a long single day.  It’s the same as one of the typical days of our Texas to New York drive.

The house was super warm when we arrived.  The AC was on and struggling to get it cold enough so that we would be able to go to sleep tonight.