Sheep Guarding Llama

Today was a long work day.  I got in nice and early and ended up working decently late not getting home until around six.  I was just late enough that Luciana, who had not taken a nap today, had gone to bed before I even got home.  That sucked. So I did not get to see her at all today, not one minute.

I had already eaten at work during the day so I asked Liesl if she wanted to go out for ice cream.  Not surprisingly, she did.  So just Liesl and I went out for a special outing to Braum’s to get ice cream cones.  Liesl is loving their Sicilian orange sherbet these days.

We picked up some groceries too while we were at Braum’s and came home with supplies.  Then the three of us plopped down on the couch and watched several episodes of The New Girl before calling it a night.

Back to work, it is Monday.    It is cold out today.  It cooled down yesterday and today it is actually colder than it is in New York.  Quite chilly for a Texas summer day.  Dominica was off to work early and the girls got up and got themselves ready so that they could play with Morgan as soon as she arrived.  Morgan is now slated to be taking care of the girls every Monday which makes Dominica and my lives so much easier.  My mornings were horrific trying to deal with getting the girls ready and driving them for an hour to daycare.  Talk about exhausting and stressful.  The drive is an hour and it takes at least an hour to get them ready.  So this saves me two hours on any day that Morgan is here and saves Dominica nearly an hour at the end of the day as well.

I ran home at lunch and went to Kroger to pick up soymilk for Ciana because we had run out.  I had meant to get some last night but had forgotten and knew that if I didn’t get any before Dominica got home that I would be in trouble so figured the trip home at lunch made sense.  I hung out with Morgan for a bit and talked about work.  Got to hang out with the girls.  They love having Morgan over.  She really wears them out.

Quiet evening.  We just spent the evening at home relaxing.

It’s Sunday and Liesl asked specifically if we could go to the “restaurant with the high tables”, by which she meant Genghis Grill where they have really high tables.  The girls really like the mac and cheese that they have there.

So after a lazy morning we headed down to Addison for lunch and got food at the Genghis Grill which is Dominica’s new favourite place to go.  The food is really healthy there.  And we can get a decent variety of food made how we like it and it is pretty cheap.

After lunch the girls were being good and Dominica was hankering for ice cream so we swung by Braum’s which is practically on the way home from Addison.  Their ice cream is so good!

We got home and Luciana decided that she was tired and put herself to bed around three.  We thought that she was just going to go down for a short nap like she often does but no, she was actually putting herself to bed.  She ended up happily sleeping for the next eighteen hours!  That was pretty surprising.

We hung out this afternoon and tried out a new show (to us), The New Girl.  It is pretty good, we are liking it.  Cute sitcom.

I didn’t get a lot of free time this evening.  I did a little work and around six thirty I went into Dominica’s office and operated as “remote hands” for over two hours working on a series of routers, firewalls and switches doing cable tracing, patching consoles, etc.   It was a long evening but really productive and we manage to fix a lot of stuff.  Well worth the effort.

I went straight from her office to Redneck as they are close to each other and that way I would not need to drive all of the way back home before going out which would more than double my drive time.  Chris had texted me to go out tonight or I would have no bothered.  Dominica was tired and planning on going to bed early anyway, though.  So Chris and I hung out at Redneck for a little while, but not really all that long.

We felt like a real breakfast this morning.  So we got up and all went out to Pete’s Cafe down on Beltline in Farmer’s Branch.  We love the breakfast there.  Everyone is really friendly and the food is great.  Dominica and I are addicted to the migas there.  We had a delicious breakfast and then, just home for the rest of the day.

So SGL has now climbed, probably based on the faster responses and cleaner site now that we are self hosting rather than on Rackspace and using CloudFlare more effectively, to three quarters of a million page views per month.  When you combine that with the other sites that I work on like SMB IT Journal, Scott Alan Miller on Linux and Scott Alan Miller on Windows I’m over eight hundred thousands page views every month.  I’m sure the views on my articles on some commercial sites are far higher.  Those are crazy numbers, I can’t believe that so many people ready me every day.  My sites get hit every three seconds.

What I’ve noticed recently is that my webserver was going down on a regular basis from load.  I thought that something was wrong but now realize that it actually was being overwhelmed with traffic.  The server was scaled for very light usage.  I had no idea how many people were using my sites!

Nothing particularly special about today.  Normal work day.  Worked a bit late but came home to work from there so that I could see the family while getting stuck late.

Dominica decided to go out tonight.  That works well for Friday nights because I have to work late and am worn out many times and really don’t feel like doing anything.  So I spent the evening watching the girls was work was done.  Ciana went to bed and then Liesl and I played some more of Ankh 3 making it through another chapter before we both went to bed around ten.  A very early evening for both of us, especially me.  But I need to do some sleep catch up and this was a perfect opportunity.

I’m looking forward to being finished with Ankh 3.  We have some really awesome games that I am looking forward to getting to play in the near future.  Now that we have Steam I have been collecting awesome games and want to be able to play them.