Sheep Guarding Llama

Got up early this morning. Liesl sneaked into our bedroom against last night when she couldn’t sleep. She always falls asleep immediately when in our room. She has learned that Dominica doesn’t want her in bed so she knows to climb into bed on my side rather than trying to be between us and Dominica really doesn’t even know that she is there until morning. She is sneaky.

Got into the office on the early side today, but I forgot my iPhone Lightning charging cable which is incredibly annoying. I’ve only forgotten it two or three times in the past year and it is always a huge pain. I have only half of a battery this morning so I have to do something. Argh.

Went to Walmart this afternoon and got myself a backup charging cable for the iPhone.  How annoying but we really have needed a second one so it is not a waste.  Just annoying.  It was a fast trip, though.

This evening I did not get home until eight.  The girls had been busy all day on their Mesopotamia projects and had to show me all kinds of school work that they had done from making ziggurat pop up books to making paper boats that go down a river and all sorts of stuff.  They do fun, educational stuff all day long.

We just watched some 30 Rock until bed time.  Dominica made veggie chorizo and egg beaters for dinner.

Today is Monday.  Normal day, nothing of note really.

Got home and called Danielle, we talked for probably half an hour.

This evening we played Wind Waker for a while.  I stayed home with the girls and Dominica went to Walmart to get much needed supplies before we aren out.  And after the girls were off to bed it was time for episode two of the fourth season of Downtown Abbey.  That causes us to stay up way too late but we just can’t resist.

After being so busy yesterday, today I dedicated most of the day to playing Wind Waker with the girls which made them exceedingly happy.  We played from first thing in the morning until Dominica made lunch and we took a break and watched 30 Rock.  But we went back to playing Wind Waker after that.  I still focused on all of the little side stuff today and wrapping up discovering all of the map.  I am ready to tackle a lot more the next time that I play.  This was a gaming “utility” weekend.

For dinner we ordered in Chinese from the place that lets us order online.  We are addicted to that now.

This evening we bought the new season of Doctor Who on Amazon VOD and watched the one episode that was available with the girls.  This is the first episode with the new doctor.  The girls thought that that was a great evening.

We got the girls off to bed on the late side then stayed up ourselves to watch the first episode of the fourth season of Downton Abby which we have resisted watching until now.

All in all, it was a very good family day.

It is the weekend.  This morning I was on call and so set up my work laptop and was signed into the office for many hours.  Ended up having to do pretty much nothing but was tied to the bedroom office all morning.  This gave me a lot of time to work on the ownCloud that I was working on last night, though, and I was able to get it fully set up and working beautifully today.

I am really impressed with ownCloud.  Very easy to install and getting it into a usable state, even full of data, was very easy.  I really like it and can see it really getting some market traction.  A great product for a lot of businesses today.  And you can’t beat the price.

Talked to Katie quite a bit this afternoon.  Helped her with some project work that she was working on.

Late afternoon I was finally able to come down to the living room and hang out with everyone.  The girls had been waiting all morning for me to come down and play Wind Waker.  So I did that for the rest of the day.  I mostly did secondary tasks all day, nothing worth noting.  Just sailing around getting little side things out of the way to make my character as strong as possible for the next dungeon which will likely be decently hard.  The girls had a lot of fun.

It is already Friday.  This was a fast week.  During the day Dominica’s new laptop, a little HP Pavilion 10z arrived.  It is a very small, AMD-based dual core unit with Windows 8.1 and only 2GB of RAM but a touch screen and really just meant for her to be able to do basic tasks, surf the web and read her email from the couch.  It is so much small and lighter (and newer) than the old Windows 7 15″ laptop that she has been using.  And the battery should last at least twice as long or possibly much more.

Dominica had the laptop all set up and was using it all day.  This is the first touch screen laptop that we have actually owned ourselves.  I have worked on them before elsewhere but now we have one at home.  I have to admit that they are kind of handy for certain things.  Especially if you work in a dark room where looking at the keyboard can be difficult.  So she seems pretty pleased with it and you really can’t beat the fact that we got it for just $168!

This evening when I got home I had to talk to Katie for a while then I spent much of the evening working on building an ownCloud 7.0.1 server running on OpenSuse 13.1.  That went pretty well and was a fun project.  I have been wanting to try out ownCloud for months but have not had any time to look into it.  It was fun and a good learning experience too.  Did some new stuff.  Not all done tonight but a lot of it was completed.

I had to do some work for the office this evening and am scheduled to work in the morning as wel.