Sheep Guarding Llama

I got up early this morning and got in maybe an hour or two on Skyrim before anyone else got up.  Once the kids were up, they decided that today was going to be a family video gaming day.  So that is what we settled in to do.  Dominica was already playing Age of Empires 2 before the kids were up, too.

This afternoon, after a very long time trying to get this to happen, I finally got the girls willing to try playing Nancy Drew!  This is very exciting.  We own basically the entire series of Nancy Drew games, definitely all of the ones that are available on Steam, and a year ago Dominica and I tried one of them but did not finish it (yet).  I wanted the girls to enjoy them to decided to start with a more recent entry in the series, one from 2010 that is well rated.

So with Liesl at the controls and Luciana snuggling and all three of us on the couch we started playing Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Edge.  Both girls loved it. This is a big hit around here.  We played it all evening and into the night.  This one is really spooky and keeps the kids on their toes.  Liesl took to the game very quickly and was able to control it and get around really quickly.  This is awesome.  We are very excited that if they enjoy this that there are so many more great games in the Nancy Drew universe for them to play.  These are the kids of games that we really like them spending their time on.

This particular Nancy Drew title includes an introduction to other types of puzzles like Sudoku (which Liesl has played for a year now) and nonograms which she is just learning about which is great because she is getting into more things that we think that she would enjoy but is unlikely to pick up and play on her own without some prompting.

Ah, the weekend has started.  One of my projects for today was building an ERPNext server for Danielle so that she could do some testing on that.  Not the simplest of things to build so that took a bit of the day, I had actually started on it last night and did not get a chance to get it all up and running until today.

It’s Saturday but I worked pretty much all day.  So much to do and no time in which to do it.  I was really in the office pretty much all day.  But the plan is to have plenty of time with the girls tomorrow, as it is Sunday.  This month has just been way too busy.

Friday.  Only two weeks left until Dominica is on her way back to the US.  Lots to be done before she leaves.

Dominica has started working diligently on doing web design and is learning WordPress and some theme management.  I’ve been trying to talk her into working on this kind of stuff for years but it has never worked.  Now she is making progress and seeing some real success so it is encouraging her to really work on it.

Liesl watched Trolls again today, of course.  She loves that movie.

After a long day of writing we decided that tonight would be a family movie night.  Liesl and Luciana have been asking to see the new movie Trolls since it was in the theatres and it is available now on Amazon so we decided that they have wanted to see it for so long that it would be a good purchase.  Twenty dollars, still, but we buy movies so seldom these days it really is not a big deal.  We get fewer than ten movies a year, I would guess.  Maybe a lot less.

We all enjoyed the movie.  The girls loved it and we thought that it was cute.  Well done, good actors, fun story and great music.  Liesl is going to be watching this one over and over, I can tell.

Wednesday.  It probably goes without saying that time is really flying while we are here in Italy.  I’ve been very busy with writing and stuff and that has really made it seem like time is just whizzing by with reckless abandon.  A whole week will go by and I will not even realize it.

I was up early-ish this morning and got right down to work writing.  So much to be done.

With everything going on with work and jobs and projects and finances and whatnot I’ve been very “head down” and not doing much fun stuff and a bit behind on SGL.  Lots going on and we are figuring out our plans, but it is going to be a tough winter, I can tell.

School is going well for the girls and they are getting into a groove now.  Trying to get as much done as they can because it is only three weeks until Dominica has to take a week off to travel back to the States for the wedding.  She will be gone for just over a week at that point (but with two weekends in there, so only one week of school missed.)