Sheep Guarding Llama

Short night last night.  Worked with Sean and David until four in the morning.  I’ve not gotten good sleep all week. Very tired.

This morning I started the day by finishing the installation of my “new” desktop over to Korora 25.  So far, I really like it.  The material design look and feel is really slick.

Dominica made breakfast this morning.

We got some really heavy rain in Dallas this afternoon.  We made plans today to go up to Missouri on Dominica’s birthday and to stay with Paul so that we can see the eclipse.  It is going to be in the zone of totality right over Paul’s house.  It’s perfect.  And Jared is taking his family to the area too, so we can all meet up there.  That will be a really neat trip.

Today I got my desk set up enough and a wired connection for me to use here in the Texas house and now I am getting twice the Internet speeds that I was getting before.  So much better.

We spent most of the morning without power as Rachael had not dealt with paying the power bill.  So we had a fun morning of trying to figure out how to get that turned back on.  This is going to be fun.

I got my office phone set up in the winter office, so I can easily make and take calls now.  Very handy.

I also set up a desk phone for Dominica.  The girls practiced using it to call dad, too.

I installed openSuse Tumbleweed on the desktop that Michael had given to me while I was in New York.  So now I have a full, working desktop in my winter office at the standing desk.  It is pretty nice.

I had tuna salad sandwiches for lunch today.

It is all of the little things today.  After lunch I set up the nVidia Shield so that we can watch movies through it.

Salads for dinner.  Then Sean and David came over to work at the house this evening.  They brought wine so we got to hang out.

Ended up installing Korora 25 on my desktop tonight.  I’m testing a few things out to try to see what I end up liking the best.

We ended up working until four in the morning!

Had breakfast at Paul’s house this morning, and then we were on the road driving south to Dallas.  We are looking forward to getting back to our house.

After a long day of driving, we arrived in Dallas.  We walked into a house that was completely destroyed. It is impossible to really describe how bad things were at the house.  The whole house was completely covered in glitter, paper, and was just a total mess.  All of it.  It was jaw droppingly bad.  We had no idea how to react.

Rachel actually ran away just before we got to the house, and didn’t come home today, to avoid us.  Why she didn’t just clean the house, I have no idea.

It was so bad that we had to drop everything and spend the entire evening doing nothing but cleaning before we could even use the house.  We put in a solid two hours of cleaning.  Just what we need.  We have rushed back to the US so that I could get right to work on so many things that need me.  Time is super critical, or we would have remained in Europe longer (much longer.)  This is a major problem as we needed to get here and get straight to work.  We were not prepared to arrive and start making the house liveable.

So this turned into a pretty bad night.  It is going to take forever to clean the house.  There are drinks all over the house with mold in them.  Spoiled food everywhere.  It’s so bad.

I did manage to get a computer up on the desk in my office (what will come to be known as the “winter office”.)

Tomorrow is going to be a lot of work cleaning.

I was up early this morning.  Today we are leaving New York to head to Texas.  Our path today is to get to Cuba, Missouri so that we can hang out with Paul before we return to Texas.

We started the day going to Denny’s in Batavia with dad.  The girls love Denny’s so much.  While we were there having breakfast I got asked to look into taking a dual CIO/CTO role in Dallas that sounds rather interesting.  We had not been thinking of doing anything like this at this point, but we had a lot of time in the car to discuss the option and see what we think about it.  A good CIO role could be interesting, of course.

The day was spent in the car, of course.  Long day of driving.  Got to Cuba late at night. Hung out with Paul.

Today we cracked open the storage unit in dad’s barn and started working on going through things and pulling out the things that we feel are most critical that we want to bring down to Texas with us when we go.

This morning dad cooked up potatoes and eggs for us for breakfast. Most of our day was spent just visiting at home.

Tonight for dinner, it was time for Papa Roni’s pizza.  The food that I crave most when I am away from home for a period of time.  Nothing like it anywhere.