Sheep Guarding Llama

On the drive into the office this morning I finished reading “Founding Brothers” by Joseph Ellis and started reading “History of the World, Updates” by J. M. Roberts.  This is one of those super long books that has been sitting in my Audible queue since easily six years ago.  The book is fifty five hours in length so this one is going to take me a while to work through.  It was a pretty slow start.

Tomorrow is Dominica’s birthday.  We don’t have anything special planned yet.  I will probably get some cake.  Her birthday present is the new HP laptop that we ordered a week ago.  Much newer and smaller than the one that she is using now.  And with a touch screen.  Should be far superior for use while sitting on the chaise lounge.  Do not know when that will arrive, though.

It’s Tuesday.  The family is all back to normal now.  No one is sick.  Just a normal work day.  Work is pretty busy this week.  Had a good meeting today to discuss a lot of things at the office.  Overall feeling good today regardless of the direction that decisions end up going in the near future.  Considering a lot of options.  Don’t know what direction we will be taking in the next few months.  It is a bit stressful having major decisions up in the air, that always weighs on your.  But we are feeling good about them in general.

After work this evening it was more Minish Cap for Dominica with the girls.  They just love it when we play video games as a family.  Dominica is making great progress through her game and is pretty likely to be able to beat it this week.

Back to work.  Slept in a little this morning, was just a little tired.  The Spark is up to 36.1MPG now, still going strong.  If it would just stop burning oil it would be insanely cheap.

Work flew by today.  Before I knew it it was nearly seven this evening.

Came home and Dominica was engrossed in The Minish Cap and the girls were having a great time watching her play.  So that was most of the evening.  I hung out in the living room for an most an hour before Luciana asked me to take her up and put her to bed.  She watched a couple Amazon shows in our bed and passed right out.  She is feeling way better tonight and we think that her fever is finally gone.  If she makes it all day tomorrow without the fever returning we will feel safe.

Liesl stayed up a bit longer to watch Dominica play.  I put her to bed around eleven.  The girls were actually asleep at a good time tonight.

I got caught up on SGL tonight.  Dominica stayed up very late playing her video game by herself.

Liesl got me up this morning.  We tried to sleep in but the girls were having none of it.  Liesl wanted her chocolate milk and a movie on the big screen in the living room.  So I got up and got her set up.  Luciana was up very shortly.

Luciana still has a little bit of a fever this morning but only very little.  She is clearly improving and throughout the day she got better and better and, by bedtime, I would say that there were really no signs of her fever left and she was awake and perky as if she was not sick at all.

I did some work this morning upstairs in the bedroom.  Dominica went down and started playing The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap which we bought last night for the Wii U (from the Virtual Console store, it is originally a GBA game.)  She played for many hours and the girls had a great time just hanging out on the couch watching her play.

Liesl tried playing Picmin 3 for maybe an hour too.  She kinda liked it but it was a bit of a struggle for her.  Not sure if she is going to continue playing that or not.

This afternoon our first ever produce shipment from FreshNation arrived.  It was a big load of stuff.  We are very impressed.  Hoping to use this service a lot.

We ordered in Chinese again tonight.  We watched an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place while we ate.  Then it was time for me to play The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker again at the request of my children.  I played for several hours and made good progress through it.  Liesl wanted me to play all evening but Luciana eventually had enough of it.

Luciana’s fever was back full force today hitting 103.5 by the middle of the morning.  It had been lower last evening and we thought that she might be on the road to recovery.

So this morning Dominica made an appointment and took Luciana to the semi-local urgent care center, about thirty minutes away. The doctor thinks that Ciana probably has a UTI and that explains a lot.  So she is on antibiotics now and we are hopeful that that will quickly make a difference.  Her fever has just been so awful.  Of course, though, by the time that she got to the clinic her fever was way down so they did not even get to witness it first hand.

I played a bit of Wind Waker today.  Liesl and I played that the entire time that Dominica and Luciana were out.

This evening we bought a couple games for the Wii U.  We had a coupon for Picmic 3 for having bought Mario Kart 8, so we downloaded that.  Looks cute.  We couldn’t decide between that and the latest Mario game but we finally decided that nothing, ever, makes us play Mario games so that was almost sure to be a waste.  We also bought The Minish Cap which Dominica has been wanting to play.  We got their downloads started and went to bed.  For some reason anything from Nintendo takes ten times longer than it should to download.  It is pretty ridiculous.

I did a bunch of site maintenance work tonight.  That took several hours but got some important work done that I have been struggling to get to for a few weeks.  Really glad that I took the time to do that tonight.