Sheep Guarding Llama

All morning and into the afternoon was a panic to get everything ready for the SpiceCorps DFW meeting today.  There is a lot of flooring that needs to go down today before people begin to arrive.  The entire living room and the bar need flooring and there are a lot of people coming today.

It was an extremely busy day.  Art and Michael are still quite sick too.  Flooring was still going down as the first SpiceCorps attendees began to arrive.  Francesca came just before SpiceCorps started as well and picked up the girls.  Liesl and Luciana will be in Houston for most of the week while Dominica and I are at SpiceWorld in Austin.

The meeting itself went well.  We didn’t have the turnout that we had been planning for, many people who had RSVP’d simply did not show up which was a problem as CBeyond, who sponsored, had the event catered based on the number of people who had committed.  The catering was excellent, however.  Really good food and overall presentation.  It was great having professionals come in, set everything up and take care of all of the food.

CBeyond did a good presentation on their services and I did a cloud architecture presentation.  Those both went well.

PSX got pretty trashed at the event and after thing wound down significantly and he had passed out on the couch, Kim wrote on him with marker and then, after having a few drinks herself, convinced him to go outside and let her spray paint him bright orange with house paint.  This was truly hilarious.  Dominica and I even got in on some of the painting.  He was completely orange by the time that we were done.

The Ralstons stayed behind at the house to watch the girls after the event was over and several of us took PSX out to Redneck Heaven to show off the spray painting.  Everyone thought that that was really hilarious.  He is going to have a rough day tomorrow.

 

It’s the weekend but everyone is pretty sick.  Today Art began working on replacing the carpets in the house with the laminate.  He got the playroom done and a little beyond that.  The new floor looks really awesome.  I am really impressed by how good it looks now that I am seeing it on the floor.  I can tell that I am going to miss the carpeting, I am a carpeting guy in general, but the new laminate looks way better than the old carpeting and is going to be so much easier to keep clean.  I am excited.  I really didn’t think that it was going to be this bright or look this classy.  This is going to be a major upgrade to the house and really add some value.

Art got the wall at the back of the bar torn out and replaced yesterday.  The old wall was in horrible shape so it is a really good thing that that got done.  It was ready to collapse.  The new wall with the big new windows is awesome.  So much more light coming into the house now, it really makes the living room pop.  And we can open the windows now so that we get air from that direction.  This is great.  I am so glad that we decided to get new windows.

The Grices came up today to go to Six Flags for the weekend but we only saw them for maybe an hour or less.  We will see them for a few minutes tomorrow when they stop by to pick up Liesl and Luciana to take them down to Houston for most of the week.

Back at work today.  Everyone is pretty under the weather at home.  Something has been going around and no one is feeling up to par.  Everyone is at different stages.  Dominica and Luciana are just getting over it, Liesl is starting to not feel well.  I’ve been up and down but mostly okay.

Had another meeting with Cbeyond this afternoon and it looks like we are all set for the meeting on Sunday evening.

This is going to be a busy weekend, tons to get done before the Sunday event and then off to Austin on Monday!

Went to work today but headed over to Sfuzzi at lunch to meet up with Danielle and Jenn.  We had a nice lunch, I’m always happy with their eggplant parm, it is some of the best that I have ever had.  The weather was great so we sat outside today.

I had a quick phone meeting with CBeyond today.  We are working on getting things squared away so that they can sponsor the SpiceCorps event that we have going on this weekend.  There was quite some confusion about that and we are in a panic to try to get that all cleared up and everything organized.  I have another meeting with them tomorrow.

Back to work this afternoon.

In the office again today.  I’ll be in all the rest of this week as I am out pretty much all of next week because of SpiceWorld in Austin.  We leave Monday and I don’t get back to the DFW until Thursday afternoon.  And that is after this weekend the Grices are in town.  It is one crazy week.

Dan, Doue and I went out for lunch today.  We had a good time.  We’ve been trying to schedule lunch together for weeks.  It takes a miracle to get Doue to make it anywhere.

This evening, as soon as I got home from work, Dominica and Danielle ran off to go shopping in Lewisville.  They were hitting the thrift shops that are abundant up there.