Sheep Guarding Llama

Jeff and I were getting ready to head into the office this morning when he hurt his back and had to stay home. So Sarah drove me to the BART station and I took the metro into the city and walked to the office from Sixteenth and Mission.  The walk, according to Google Maps, is one mile on the nose.  There is a bit of a hill in the middle of it, though, so you get to walk up and down in each direction.  So I am doing about two miles per day on my commute.

Sarah had grabbed McDonald’s for every one before taking me in so I did not need lunch in the office.  Josh heads out today.

We had a good day in the office.  Things were mostly quiet.  We were able to actually do planning and discuss things that we want to do as a team for a change.

I worked late again.   I got back to San Bruno around eight thirty.  Sarah picked me up and we went to Shari’s and picked up dinner.  I was good and got a grilled salmon salad.

I watched Jeff play The Witcher 3 in full 3D in his man cave tonight.  He is still in a lot of pain and has to stay in a good chair with a heating pad on his back.  The game is really incredible, I own the first two games in the series and am really looking forward to playing them now.  In full 3D it is really amazing.  Now I want to get a 3D gaming system as that really looks like a great way to do it.

I did not stay up late tonight, was rather tired.  Watched a little bit of Sarah playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, which is not in full 3D (it is just on a PlayStation 4) and so my eyes were able to take a bit more of it.  The 3D is really cool but the combination of the glasses, the really warm room and the very deep 3D with things making your eyes refocus continuously is a bit much for me for any length of time.

Woke up at seven, which is amazing considering how late I have been up the last few nights.  I did not go to bed last night until the current status of the Greek Crisis had been resolved.  I was awake nearly as long as the people in Brussels trying to work out a deal.  They did a twenty hour day trying to figure that all out.  What a crazy night that was.

Sarah drove me to the San Bruno BART station at a quarter after nine and I made good time getting to Sixteenth and Mission.  It was too late to make it in for my morning meeting but I was in shortly thereafter.  I grabbed McDonald’s on the walk in, mostly for the iced coffee.  It is not too hot here in San Francisco but it is always sunny and humid in this part of the city and it makes it pretty warn for the walk in.  And the air conditioning in the office does not work properly, there is not enough power in the building to handle all of the computers, lights and the air conditioning at the same time and it goes out on a regular basis making it pretty warm in there.

It is a Monday and the start of my final four days here in California.  I am really missing my girls and cannot wait to get back to Texas to see them.  I will see them on Friday afternoon.  Not too much longer.

Jeff stayed home today, his last full day to get to see his brother before he heads back down south to LA.

I worked pretty late, going until about seven thirty before leaving the office to walk back to the BART station to catch the train back to San Bruno.  I was so late that everyone had already eaten before I had even left but there was coconut shrimp waiting for me at the house when I returned.

Josh and I went out this evening and picked up some hard cider, gin and bourbon and some chips and dip.  We set up Father Ted at the house and watched three episodes before everyone went to bed.

It’s Sunday and the theme of the day is the Greece financial disaster in Europe.  This started before I got up this morning and lasted all day.  So pretty much the entire day was spent closely watching the news to see what the latest status on that situation was.

This morning Sarah made French toast for everyone.  I had very few plans today.  I did a little SGL catchup but very little.  Most of my day was split between watching the situation in Europe and attempting to play Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars which, by the end of the day, I was listed as being 39% of the way through.

I am really fortunate that playing Broken Sword now, after all of these years, and playing the HD remake on the Mac rather than the original on the Nintendo DS (the same version that Dominica played side by side with me), that I really remember almost nothing about the game and am truly playing the entire thing essentially “for the first time.”  It all feels very new.  I don’t believe that there was any voice acting on the Nintendo DS handheld version either and the graphics and controls were decently different, so this really, truly is a new experience.  Once in a while something that I do will feel familiar, but by and large it does not.

We both (Dominica and I) played all of the way through the original Broken Sword but there was a glitch on the DS version that we had so we sadly got to the end and could not finish the game.  That really sucked.   That was a lot of gameplay time to have that happen.  So now I am playing it all again so that I can get the full experience.  And now I own all five titles in the series so I get to really see where the adventure goes once I complete this one.

Jeff and I spent a lot of the day discussing the situation in Europe.  Several hours, in fact.

I ended up staying up until around two in the morning attempting to keep up with the reports coming from the EuroSummit.  It was kind of an exciting evening.  Jeff spent the day playing The Witcher 3 in 3D on the PC, which was pretty cool.  Josh is still playing Fallout: New Vegas on the 360.  Sarah has been playing Dragon Age: Inquisition on the PS4.

Got to sleep in and relax this morning.  Nothing to do and nowhere to go.  Jeff cooked up breakfast which included eggs and vanilla pancakes.  It was really good.  Pretty much all of us in the house decided that today was primarily a relaxing video game day.  Jeff and his brother took the “man cave” room with Jeff playing The Witcher 3 in 3D and Josh playing Fallout: New Vegas. Sarah spent much of the day playing Dragon Age: Inquisition in the living room.  For me it was Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars on the MacBook.

It was a nice day to relax and not have anything to really do.  I enjoyed having some serious downtime.

Jeff’s friend Eric came over this evening and hung out for a while.  The four of us, Jeff, Josh, Eric and I, went to Shari’s for dinner. Sarah had a party to go to so had left us home alone.

 

It is my one Friday out here in California for this trip.  Jeff and I were up early this morning, Jeff super early as he got called very early.  So we did our start of day from the house and then Sarah drove me down to the BART station while Jeff attempted to rest for a little bit before going to the office.

So I took the BART from San Bruno station to 16th and Mission and walked to the office from there.  It was a nice day, slightly warm as the sun was out by the time that I was walking.

Today started off on the slow side, it was good to be in the office.  Jeff came in a few hours later.  Our whole afternoon and evening was super busy with an orchestrated denial of service attack going on for much of the day.  So we were busy and scrambling to take care of that.  It was a very crazy afternoon going into the evening.

We worked very late and were worried, right up until the last moment, that we were going to miss our big dinner for the team that we were having tonight which has been scheduled for weeks now.  But we pulled it off and were able to head to dinner with barely any time to spare.

Dinner was at One Market near Embarcadero.  There were about ten of us.  It was an amazing dinner.  I started with a smoked salmon and egg appetizer that was quite good.  My main course was bay scallops and dessert was goat and sheep cheese.  We had a really nice evening.

Not much after dinner.  Got back to the house and just had a quiet evening.  It was pretty late by the time that we got there, taking the BART back.  I played a little bit of Broken Sword and went to bed.