Sheep Guarding Llama

It is Sunday.  Another week has come and gone.  Still no real answers.

Spent some time trying out some new video games today that have been sitting in my library for a while.  Tried “The Promised Land” which was cute and I played for maybe an hour, maybe less.  Looks like it will be fun, but rather casual.

Played some more Age of Empires II today.  Spent a bit of time with the family.  We watched some shows together.  Very calm day again.

We had so much fun playing AoE2 yesterday that we took much of today to play it as well.  It works well for ignoring all of the stress and concern that has been going on.  While we are now into a state of semi-unemployment we have a ton of things in motion that mean that we pretty much are just sitting around waiting on other people for the most part.  Barclays has told me that they are talking to Bridgewater and are going to work things out and that they just want us to sit on our hands and twiddle our thumbs (to mix my metaphors) for a while.  So, at least for several days, that is what we are doing.  But, if anything, this makes us far more stressed.

So, for the moment, we are sitting tight and trying to take everything in stride as much as possible.  But it is very hard to do.

Another day at home.  Dominica and I were both in a bit of an Age of Empires mood and so I played a few games of it on my own and I played one or two with her (as a team, not head to head) as well.  That made for a fun day.  We have not played that game in a really, really long time.  At least not playing it for any real amount.  The new HD enhancements make it so much better.  We are loving the Steam integration.

This is one of the advantages of spending time hanging out in the Gamrha.us Community, it reminds us what games we have and what we like to play and that we should be playing games sometimes.

This evening I gave in and played some Wind Waker with the girls too.  I am really hoping that we can get that game over and done on the soonish side.  There is not all of that much left to go in the game and I just want to be done with it.  I made it to the beginning of the Wind Temple tonight.  So a bit left to go, but I am in one of the last major challenges of the game.  The last of the traditional dungeons.

This whole being unemployed thing is very odd.  We don’t know anything about the severance deal yet so we are very much at a loss for exactly what we should be doing and when.

This evening, when the girls were playing on their own somewhere, Dominica and I worked to start catching back up on the series Sleepy Hollow which we like quite a bit but it is too scary to be watching when the girls are around so we have a tendency to not get to watch it too often causing us to binge watch it when we get a chance.

We discovered today that the “What are you doing?” thread on MangoLassi is getting over 2,000 hits per day which is pretty amazing for a single thread.  This is the first really high volume that has been seen.

Did some more writing today and got another article written and out the door.  At least being home all of this time allows me to get time to write and stuff.  Although because of the amount of stuff going on and the stress and everything it has actually been incredibly hard to keep SGL updated, which might seem unlikely.  So it has been about the furthest behind that it has ever been these past two months.  At least the most that it has been behind for four or five years now, I would say.

My first day “unemployed”, more or less.  Not exactly, but essentially.  We are living on vacation time now.  My final paycheck came FedEx this morning and appeared, more or less, to be in order.  There is not great transparency on these things but it seemed correct as far as I could tell.

There is going to be a severance offer but it might be a little while before we get that to know what it is really going to be like.  I should know something about that in about a week, maybe two.  At this point we don’t know if that is going to be any good, if it is something that we can actually take, what it all means, etc.

Did a lot of posting today.  And a lot of writing.  Dominica set to playing the Sims 3 pretty early on this morning.

We are trying to figure out what our plans are going to be from this point going forward.  Much stress, of course.