Sheep Guarding Llama

I slept in this morning, not getting out of bed until Liesl came in and jumped into bed with us after nine.  Boy did I need the extra sleep.  I have just been getting farther and farther behind recently.  Even after Liesl joined us, we stayed in bed for a bit and did not get up until Ciana went down to the basement and was calling for us.

Got up and we put on the original serious of Star Trek while we hung out in the living room.  Only a few minutes into it I decided to figure out how to work from my laptop while standing up.  I set up a box on the sideboard table that put a laptop at the right height so that I could stand and use it right next to Dominica and where I could watch the television.  This ended up being awesome because I could walk away from the laptop at any moment and do things and just walk right back to it anytime.  So nice.  If I sit on the couch I become “stuck” there with a laptop on my lap which is very hard to use.  And then the kids climb on me and knock things over.  Just this morning Luciana knocked over my coffee after knocking over two glasses of water last night.

Liesl and Luciana spent the whole day playing in the living room with us there.  Liesl was so excited to continue working on the cardboard box that she had turned into her rocketship last night.  She named it “Disco Rocketship.”  She and Luciana added a cargo bay to it and played with it much of the day.  They loved it.

The weather was awesome today.  It rained the entire day, from before we woke up until after we went to bed.  We had the windows and back door open part of the day because the house was so warm and Dominica was cooking.  So the girls decided to go out back and play on the deck for a long time.  They had a great time.  It is nearly fifty degrees today so they just played and played.

We did not do a lot today, but it was a good day.  Dominica made a couple really awesome meals and this evening she went shopping for a little while and came home just in time to help put the girls to bed.

Tonight we watched Blade Runner which Dominica has not seen since we were dating, probably in 2001.  That time was her first and it was the Director’s Cut on Laserdisc.  Last weekend I was talking to Dominica’s dad about Blade Runner and how if you watch the Director’s Cut without having seen the original how hard it is to follow the story because much of the explanation portions are missing.  Dominica overheard the conversation and decided that she needed to try watching the original cut now, about thirteen years later.  It is hard to believe that we have not watching this, my second favourite film, in all of that time.  We have owned the Collector’s Edition BluRay since it first released.

Dominica liked the movie far better this time.  She was able to follow it.  Such a good movie.

Some discussion of it on Mango Lassi too: http://mangolassi.it/topic/500/blade-runner

Microsoft Office is out for the iPad now and so I got that downloaded to check out today.  The apps include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.  I only got a brief chance to check them out but from a first look, they seem pretty awesome.

 

It’s Friday!  I really need a Friday this week.  Very tired.  Just quite worn out.  It’s not been a bad week, just an exhausting one.  I was in my own office all day today, first time since Tuesday.

I did not have to work late today, it was nice.  I was out not too long after six and I was able to stop off at the deli on the way home for falafel pitas.  I brought them home and we ate and watched Cheers.  It was a nice, relaxing Friday evening.  Then we watched National Lampoon’s European Vacation as our entertainment for the evening.

Liesl’s project tonight was to get a packing box and she and Ciana coloured it all in to make it a “rocketship.”  She started asking to do that last night.  She had lots of fun but was very tired and had to go to bed before she was done.

I got to start the day a little bit later than usual today.  And starting it off in Wilton which is almost ten minutes closer to home than usual.  So I got to relax just a little bit this morning which was nice because I was so late leaving work last night.

Work was good today.  I thought that I was only going to be offsite for a little bit but ended up being there all day.  I got to leave work on the early side.  Not really early, but before six at least.  It was nice.

Got to come home and spend time with the girls.

Today was an extra long one.  Started early at an offsite office and boy was it an exhausting day.  Not a bad day, just really exhausting.  I was basically sequestered for a full day and never got to do anything relaxing or anything.

We were at work so late that we ordered in dinner.  Dinner didn’t come until nearly eight.  We ate and worked until after nine.  A very late night.  It was about ten thirty when I finally got home.  Barely got to see the girls and put them right to bed and then it was right off to bed for me too.

Went into the office this morning and had a fairly normal day for most of the day.  But in the early afternoon I had to head over to an offsite location and worked there for a while.  Luckily it ended up being an early day wrapping up for me and I got to go home early-ish and surprised the girls which was awesome.

We had a really nice evening, just the family hanging out.  Dominica and I headed to the basement pretty soon after I got home.  I surprised her by buying The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug on the AppleTV which gets those movies very soon after they are in the theatre and we watched that.  It was very good although it took us forever to get through since the girls would interrupt us constantly.  But it was fun.

It made for a nice evening.  We rarely have the time to do something like that.