Sheep Guarding Llama

It is Friday and I was in the office today.  I did a little work on my project during the day but mostly saved it for this evening.  For lunch several of us went to Redneck.

I actually got out of work at a good time tonight and got home and was able to work on my final project at home.  I put in a few hours and actually managed to turn in the project a few hours before the final minute.  This made Dominica very happy because she really wanted to start watching the current season of Doctor Who which we have been holding off on watching until my classes were done because we knew that once we started watching it that that would be the end and that we would watch all of it that was available.

So around eight this evening we set up the PS3 so that we could watch Amazon VOD in the living room on the big screen and set to watching it until the wee hours of the morning.  We made it through most of the season tonight.  Liesl stayed up watching most of it with us as she loves Doctor Who.

We have a few episodes to watch yet tomorrow and one that releases, in theory, tomorrow night.  So Sunday we should be done with the season.

I am so glad to finally be done with all of my class stuff.  I still have my thesis or capstone left to go but that is it, nothing else.  No more classes at all.  This weekend is going to be a complete relaxation one now that I have turned in my project.  I’ve been needing this for a while.

It is Thursday.  Classes for RIT will be done in every way, shape and form by tomorrow night.  So today is my lat full day to work on my final project.  This is it, no stopping now.

I was in the office today and actually did pretty little course work.  I still have tonight and tomorrow to work on that and I needed a little downtime for my brain.

Uneventful day. Came home and hung out with the family since we really didn’t get to spend any time together the last two days.  The girls have missed me and I’ll likely be stuck at work until late tomorrow.

So tonight we mostly just watched some of Rules of Engagement.

Spiceworks Tech Talk Live! To IT Service and Protect

Got up at seven this morning.  Showered, packed up and got out of the hotel in about forty-five minutes.  That worked well. It is only about ten minutes to Spiceworks from there although I had a little bit of a tough time navigating because of the heavy traffic so it was not as fast as it might have been although I did learn my way around the Northwest hills a bit and am much more comfortable driving them now.  It is amazing how much that region of Austin reminds me of Silicon Valley.

We had a light breakfast, got espresso and then set up for our live broadcast this morning.  We did several run throughs this morning.  The live broadcast started at ten and went pretty well.  We got very positive feedback.  A recording of the session is supposed to be posted tomorrow online.

After our show was done I got a tour of the new Spiceworks facility.  They have only been in the new office space for a few weeks.  The new digs are huge.  I got my first tour when they had just twenty people or so.  Now they have way over two hundred.  They are taking up a huge amount of space over two floors.  They have what is meant to be office space for four companies in use for their one and they are rapidly outgrowing that.

We did a group lunch in a large conference room.

I got set up in a small conference room to use for the day.  One of those two to three person little rooms with a little round table.  I got set up in there and was able to work from there for the day, nice and private.  That actually worked really well as it was very quiet and no one bothered me at all.

I did about an hour of solo video shooting today for promotional materials.

I left Spiceworks as early as I could, just a little after four, but I got turned around trying to get on the road so it took me an extra hour fighting traffic before I was really on the road north towards the DFW.

I got home around eight and spent the rest of the evening working on class work.  Only one thing left after tonight.  My project for my last class is due Friday night.  That’s it.  Just tomorrow to work on it and I will be completely done with classes at RIT.

I had to go into the office today, which I was planning on going to anyway.  But today I am really needed.  I got in and the office was truly empty.  There were only a couple of people in the office at all.  It was kind of crazy.

I did what homework I could during the day but that was pretty much none.  I left the office a little after four and made for Austin as quickly as I could.  It is a really long drive.  Spiceworks is located in the Northwest Hills and it takes at least another half an hour to get to their location once arriving in Austin.

The drive went fine and there wasn’t too much traffic.  I made acceptable time from the DFW to Austin.  Starting from the office gave me a couple of minutes advantage over leaving from home, but only a couple.

It was about seven thirty when I pulled into the Spiceworks parking lot, a bit later than I had hoped but not too bad.

We put in about two hours preparing for the live broadcast tomorrow.  It was fun.  Ted from SpiceWorld 2009 was there.  It’s been years since we have seen each other.  It was fun catching up.

I stayed at the Holiday Inn near the Spiceworks offices.  Nice room, good Internet access.  Did some work before turning in for the night.  Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day.

On the way to the Holiday Inn there was an accident on the road, I got caught in the traffic for it.  I didn’t think anything of it tonight but it will be important tomorrow.

I stayed home from work today and spent the day with the girls while Dominica was at work.  We got very little time to hang out, though, as in addition to work I had to work like frantic on my work for RIT as today is my last full day of being able to work on most of my stuff.  Tomorrow I will be in the office and am leaving early to drive down to Austin where I am working tomorrow night for a few hours and then going to work there all day on Wednesday so instead of having Wednesday evening free to wrap things up I will be busy driving back to Dallas.

Was productive today, still have a lot to do but am moving forward well.  Need to get into the office for the next two months, one of our team members took a cricket ball to the eye over the weekend and is in the hospital so we are short people even more than we had been expecting which is pretty short already.