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Friday. A very busy day at work. I was going crazy all morning. But it was good work and I got a lot done.

Kristen parked her car at the house and I ran her over to the train station around noon so that she could go downtown for the day and the Kacey Musgraves concert tonight.

I worked all day, it was very busy until early evening. No relaxing time for me. Dominica and I did not get time to go out for a walk today, either.

This evening Liesl decided to join me and we watched several episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine until Luciana came out and joined us, too. Then we switched to watching Full House.

I started digging out the WiiU tonight for Luciana. She has been wanting to hook it up in their room for a while.

Tuesday. Another incredibly cold day. My office was so cold today that I had to wear my hoodie, a nearly winter coat over it, my shoes all day, and even my fingerless alpaca woolen gloves to stay warm. Plus I had a few gallons of hot water sitting in the office to add some heat to the space.

My day started with a friend in California calling because they had a massive data loss at a client. Helping out with that took a large portion of my day. A lot of time attempting to do XFS filesystem file recovery from a file system that was accidentally formatted over and that has no working backups. That was a bit of a challenge.

Work was a bit busy on top of that. And I spent a bit of time working with Valentina on training.

Paul had a lunch meeting out today. So he was gone for a while.

This evening Dominica and I went out for a walk and got in a few thousand steps. We are getting better at keeping our exercise up.

Paul and Dominica went to pool league tonight. I made the kids pizza for dinner, did the dishes, and did some work standing at the bar. Tonight I finally finished watching Star Trek: Enterprise. I am now completely caught up with all of the Star Trek universe that has ever been released except for the new stuff that has not gone to streaming service yet.

Next up, I watching Hairspray on Netflix. I have never seen this 2007 musical. It was pretty good, strong cast.

I watching The Birdcage while I finished up exercising. Such a great movie, I have not seen it in a really long time.

I managed to do over fifteen thousands steps today! My Samsung Health app tells me that I just need to target six thousand a day, although I try to aim closer to ten thousand but have not hit that yet in a while. Fifteen thousand is pretty good. I burned more calories exercising than I ate today!

I’m loving our new Amazon Alexa Microwave. It is small, but it was affordable and works really well. Simple but works better than the fancier microwaves. And the voice control is just a cool novelty.

Monday. Another extremely cold day. It was twenty one degrees when I woke up today! But we are expected to be closer to eight by the weekend.

Work was busy, but not as busy as I had expected it to be given how busy we were over the weekend with the ransomware event.

This evening, I made pizza for Liesl (the frozen kind, nothing fancy) and my home made garlic, sage, butter pasta for Luciana. I have figured out how she likes it. Spaghetti pasta, butter heated while the pasta drains and liberal use of garlic and sage and salt. Butter melted and then the pasta thrown on top on top of the still hot burner and I basically butter fry or braise the pasta in the butter sauce. It gives the pasta a certain texture and works in the herbs. I’ve done it exactly the same twice and both times Luciana doesn’t just report that it is good, but that it is awesome.

I watched some of Star Trek: Enterprise tonight. I am late in the fourth season and well into the terrible episodes. In a Mirror, Darkly is the worst I’ve seen of the franchise, I bet. So bad. Totally worthless to watch. Good for working on my exercise while it is on. I’ve been working hard to get my steps in every day. My Samsung Health app has been helping that a lot.

For dinner I had a pickle cheese burger and a bag of steamed veggies. Only eight hundred and thirty calories and I wasn’t hungry at all. I wasn’t actually even hungry when I ate. I have no idea how I can go so long not getting hungry.

Dominica and I watched some of The Bob Newhart Show before going to bed.

Sunday. Slept in again this morning. But it was pretty early when I was called by the client who had been hit with the ransomware on Friday and needed me to work for a lot of the day helping out with their issues again. So my Sunday was essentially lost. I put in basically an entire day of work starting late in the morning. A very busy day, much like on Friday.

I worked until around seven or eight. Then ran out to pick up food. First stopping by Ralph’s Pizza, then heading over to Taco Bueno. I got myself a bean burrito (no chili sauce of course), a potato burrito with beans, and I tried one of their limit time street tacos: the fried shrimp taco. Came back home to eat.

This evening we watched The Glass Bottom Boat, which is one of my favourite Doris Day movies. And then watched a little of Star Wars after that. But maybe only half an hour. Got to bed early tonight. Pretty worn out from the last few days.

Saturday. I slept in pretty seriously this morning. I didn’t wake up until almost noon! Yesterday must have really taken it out of me. I slept solidly and did not even realize that it was so late when I had woken up.

It is cold this morning, just over four degrees. Dominica was watching the second season of Reba when I woke up.

In the middle of the afternoon we made it out for a walk. We went a bit farther today than we have been going. We got in over two miles, even in the light rain. It was a good walk. Dominica is able to go much farther now.

We got back home and decided to go out for a date night. Going down to Soho Food and Jazz in Addison for Tapas.

When we parked at Soho Food and Jazz, some crazy lady drove wildly through the parking lot and hit Dominica’s door as she was opening it. We are really lucky as Dominica foot was already out of the door, it could have taken her foot off! It ended up just bouncing off of the other car and no damage. But it was a near thing.

At Soho we struggled, as always, to find food that Dominica could eat. But with some modifications, we were able to have the goat cheese, hummus, tofu, ahi tuna stack, and the crispy ravioli. It was all delicious. Almost all of it required some modification to the sauce so that Dominica could eat it, but mostly worked out okay. We can add this to the list of places where Dominica can eat, at least a little. There was live music, too.

We couldn’t be out long, it was five when we got back from our walk, and well after six by the time that Dominica was ready to go and Paul needed us back before eight so that he could go play snooker with AJ. So our time window was tiny. We ate and ran back home. Dominica likes to say that I’m always late, but it is very handy to have Paul here so I can demonstrate to a third party that I spend tons of time being ready and trying to manage time windows to get where I need to be and everyone else causes me to cut things too close. Dominica always remembers me as causing us to be late, mostly just because I’m also the driver.

We were back well before eight and Paul went out to play snooker. I was still hungry later in the evening so had some soup and bread, and then some cereal. The kids didn’t feel like hanging out tonight. So I caught up on The Orville and then started watching Solo, the latest Star Wars movie, but did not get a chance to make it very far before deciding to go to bed.