Sheep Guarding Llama

First thing this morning the Grices were up and out the door before nine to meet up with their friends and go to Six Flags.  In addition to Liesl and Luciana, Dominica and I are watching Garrett and Clara toady.  This is going to be one crazy house.

Pretty much the whole day was just hanging out with the kids combined with me working on a Ruby on Rails project.  I am learning the latest Rails, 3.2, along with Git and learning to use Heroku for application hosting.  This is a lot of fun and I am learning a lot.  Making really…

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Whoo, the start of a long weekend.  I love it.  I love surprised three day weekends.  Suddenly you have time to relax.

The Grice family came up to visit this weekend.  They are …..

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Summer is nearly over here in Texas.  The end of August signals the beginning of the possibility of cool days now and then.  September will remain hot but there will be breaks in the heat, unlike in July and August.

Another day and still, not a peep about the project in Saudi Arabia.  Very disappointed.  As August is drawing to a close, we are confident that the project is dead in the water (or sand, as the case may be.)

I had to be in the office a little early today as there was a Jackson Hole announcement at eight thirty that I was needed to support.

Tonight I got started doing P90X myself.  Wow did that kick my butt.  That is some exhausting stuff.  I can’t even remotely keep up with that workout.  That was crazy.  The workout was amount eighty minutes long, way more than I am used to doing for anything but walking.  I was one hurting puppy by the time that I was done.

I got up at six thirty today. Just four hours of sleep.  What is wrong with me?  I don’t even seem to sleep as long as I should.

Luciana got us up in the middle of the night but only long enough to get her another bottle and get her back to bed.

I got ready for work and Liesl got up just minutes before I left today.  So I set her up with Word Girl on Netflix Kids and got her her chocolate milk and got her set up for the morning so that she would be happy for a while so that Dominica could keep sleeping.

As I was about to leave Liesl said, “Daddy, are you going to work outside?”

I was pretty confused trying to determine what she meant.  So I replied, “Well, I’m going to go outside and get in the car and drive to work.”

And Liesl said, “That’s what I said, go outside to go to work.  I didn’t mean that you were going to work in the backyard outside!”

It was a surprisingly mature rebuttal from a three year old!

I got to work quite early today and got a lot done this morning.  By lunch I was doing alright so decided to actually take the time to eat lunch today.  Dan and I went up to Redneck Heaven for lunch.

Dominica is on her second day of her P90X program.  So far so good.  She is getting into it.  Hopefully she can keep with it, it is very intense.