Sheep Guarding Llama

Thirteen years ago today, Dominica and I got married at Hillside in Wyoming, New York.  So hard to believe that it has been thirteen years.  More than half of those years with at least one kid.  Pretty soon we will be at more than half with both!  And a good chunk of that time traveling together, too.  This is nine years of overseas travel together (we started in 2007 at Thanksgiving.)

This morning I built a new NextCloud 10 server.  Always a project to keep me busy.  I had to fix a broken VyOS router as well.  It died on me, big time, so I had to work with the datacenter to get it fixed today.  Kept me busy most of the day.

I started working with a new community today that is attempting to provide social media and connections for domestic violence and abuse victims to come together, find aid, get resources, etc.  FindingHopeTogether is the community site.

I did a community update on MangoLassi today, as well.  A busy day of real tech, rather than writing, for me today.

After business hours, Rachel got home and we all went to Malarkey’s for Quiz Night.  The three of us drove together and Chris joined us there.  Not a fancy night out, but after thirteen years we are happy to have just found a babysitter and to have gotten the chance to leave the house.  Rachel’s siblings took care of the kids while we were out.  Dominica and I both got fish tacos at the bar for our anniversary dinner.

We lost at Quiz Night, but we always lose so that was not a big deal.

I know that SGL is way, way behind.  Like epic record behind on updates.  But they are coming, just slowly.  And in the meantime, you can always keep up with me, minute by minute, by following my updates (and everyone elses’) on the somewhat epic What Are You Doing Right Now thread on ML.  Almost thirty thousand individual updates there right now, so it is a pretty busy place to be watching for things.  But it is a good resource for seeing what is going on right this second.

A quiet start to the week here in Dallas.  Tomorrow is Dominica and my thirteenth wedding anniversary.  Boy that is hard to believe.  How can it have been so long already?

Today was a major telecom outage in the US, one of the largest ever with a core backbone provider under a distributed denial of service attack.  So for much of the day phones were down or nearly down all over the country.

Pretty slow day of just getting work done, lots of writing and posting.  We are pretty much just hiding in Dallas and relaxing so not very much to report.  It is going to be a slow autumn around here.

We had nothing going on today and just relaxed all day at the house.  Skyrim and some other video games.

It’s the weekend.  Our first free weekend back in Texas.  I made it out to Taco Bell this morning and managed to pick up breakfast burritos for the family.  That was a nice change of pace.

After breakfast I am pretty sure that I fired up Skyrim and played for a while.  The girls thought that it was really good and watched me play all day.  It was nice to get to chill in the living room and just take it easy.

The last day of September, and it is Friday.  Where did the summer go.

Did my usual writing today.  Then this afternoon I had to run over to the Palestinian car shop down the street and get the Nissan Quest inspected so that I could send on the paperwork to New York so that we can get the car registered and our new license plates.  Passing inspection was easy.  Hopefully all of that paperwork completes quickly (spoiler: it doesn’t.)

Tonight we bought Herbie Rides Again on Amazon Video on Demand and watched it in the living room with the kids.  Liesl enjoyed it, Luciana was not very interested.  It was too slow for her.

We had tried watching The Love Bug when we lived in Nicaragua, so the girls know about Herbie a little.