Sheep Guarding Llama

Friday.  Today is the release of season four of Fuller House.  Luciana has been obsessing about this for weeks and is so excited that it is finally out.  She has asked for weeks on a status every day.  

I had to be up really early this morning to do some work.  So I started my day before six in the morning.  I worked for a few hours and had originally thought that I was going to take a nap after some work, but the work ended up going on for so long that I decided that I might as well just stay up and work.

Today, Valentina made a new drawing of me riding a unicorn farting a rainbow for an advertising campaign.  Luciana says that she wants a poster of it for her bedroom.  I love it, it is so cool.  It got a lot of love on Instagram, too.

But we could not drop everything and spend the day watching Netflix.  It was a work day first.

GOG’s Winter Sale gave away Full Throttle Remastered for free today which is amazing, because this was one of my absolutely most desired games to get on my wishlist this year and I totally got it for free!  GOG is the best.

I managed to work through a couple more boxes today of stuff that moved down from New York.  The progress on all of that is very slow, but at least there is progress.  Once we head down to Houston there is going to be a lot more space in the garage to move around and get things sorted and cleaned because Francesca has three large pieces of furniture at the end of the garage that is in the way.  Paul is going to drive that all down in his truck.  So that will make cleaning up the garage so much easier.

Paul has gotten everything that we need to use the shelves that we currently have now, so that is going to accelerate things quite a lot as we can put books and such onto shelves now.  We had only been able to use half of our shelving capacity since getting down from New York because the little nubs that hold up the shelves have been missing.  And now that some desks have been moved in and assembled in the dining room we already have a bit more room.  Paul is thinking that two more, large metal racks will go into the garage along the inside wall towards my office and once we do that we should be in good shape.

We are already getting to the point where we are just about to need to start the process of converting the DVDs that are in boxes.  The game plan is to go DVD by DVD and get it moved over to the NAS.  Then put the DVD itself onto a spindle to compress the physical space that it takes up and to throw out the plastic box that they are all in.  That, alone, might clear out a quarter of the garage and make all of the extra space just “go away.”  That is a year long project at least.  

Once the DVDs are completed, then the same thing needs to happen with CDs.  Only we don’t plan on throwing out the cases.  Those, we think, will move up to the attic into deep storage.  Then the kids can deal with them sometime in the indefinite future when they have to clean out our house after we have gone.

I got my office cleaned up a bit today.  It has been a bit hard to work in there as it was so crowded.  It is still a mess, but far better now.  I can walk to my desk, at least, now.

This evening Dominica made muzi muzi for dinner and the family settled in to all watch the fourth season of Fuller House together.  We’ve all been waiting a long time for this.  So we did that until it was time for bed.  I needed to go to bed on the early side tonight as I was pretty tired after only getting a few hours last night and working a very long day.

Once the kids went to bed, Dominica and I watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix which just released recently.  It was well shot and has some amazing acting and footage.  But, overall, it was not very interesting.  Most of the stories were overly predictable, gory, and depressing.  It is six short stories, but almost no story is really ever told.  It was a selection of quality cinema vignettes, but it lacked real substance.  If you are really into film as a study, it is pretty good quality.  But as something to watch for enjoyment, it’s just lacking.

Thursday.  This week has been so crazy that I was not even sure if today was Thursday or Tuesday.  I kept thinking that the week had just begun, but it is actually nearly over.

Today was just a busy, head down kind of work day.  Got a lot done and was very happy about it.  The kids spent loads of time working on projects for Christmas.  This year we are working hard on focusing on the kids making meaningful and thoughtful gifts for people, rather than buying things.  So they have been hard at work making stuff for days and have a lot to do yet.  Dominica is hoping to be leaving for Houston on Saturday morning if she can get all ready by then.

Rachel is supposed to be back on Sunday, so the plan is that we are going to go out to The Church to go dancing on Sunday after she returns from Austin.  

I spent several hours today working on the phone with Valentina.  We tend to do video calls while we work so she was looking at me for a few hours while we worked and she sketched this new picture of me today while we were working.  It’s awesome, I should use it as a my new avatar, my old one has been there for so long now at this point.

This evening I relaxed and watched a bit of Star Trek: Enterprise.  I have to get in some time with it before tomorrow since Fuller House releases tomorrow and the girls have been waiting for that for forever and we will be watching nothing but that once it releases.  I am making very good progress on Enterprise.  It is not that long of a show, I will be through it all in no time.