Sheep Guarding Llama

This week was a very busy one for me.  Brian is mostly back to normal today and is back in action after more than a week of being pretty much useless.  He was seriously sick and still is not back to normal but is doing mostly okay at this point.  It is clear now that he is on the road to recovery, at least.

Dominica has been very busy, still, with work.  She has been working more the last week or so than she has for months.  This is not good as her laptop is in horrible shape too.  The motherboard was damaged by someone visiting us and now she has to baby the power cord of the machine loses power and just dies.  The battery died months ago or more and the keyboard hasn’t worked well since HP replaced it some time ago.  The laptop is just getting worse and worse but we don’t have the money right now to use to replace it so we are stuck for the moment.  I am thinking about getting a MacBook Air to replace my own laptop and then Dominica would be free to use mine.  That’s a great plan if only we had money to get a MacBook Air now and if the Air was in the latest revision which I want to wait for before purchasing anyway.  I’m hoping that a new version of the Air comes out at the same time that Mac OSX Lion comes out this summer.  So we are trying to figure out what to do.  What a pain.  Very bad timing for her laptop to be having issues.

I’ll be mostly out of commission this week so don’t expect too many posts.

Today is my dedicated “lock myself away in the office and work like a madman” day.  There are no plans today except for working at home.  So I am hoping to be able to get just tons and tons done.

It ended up being a very good day and I actually managed to get the work done that I needed to do.    Still no electricians today.  And no response from them either.  No one can find them.  It seems odd that they would avoid us when there is so little work left to be done.  It’s not like there is any significant amount of work to “get out of” but we do need them to wrap up a few final things.

This is one busy weekend for me.  I am continuing to work on a combination of storage and telephony projects that are sucking every waking minute out of the day.  At least now I am working from the new office.  It is far from being done but just being in here is a huge step.  Today is my first real day able to really take advantage of it.  I now have my good Snom deskphone to replace that awful Cisco excuse for a phone that I have been stuck with for a while.

My desk sits in the middle of the room still which is a bit of a pain but there is wall work to be done yet so that will remain for a while.

I had to work doing a SAN migration this morning so I was up pretty early, we started at eight.  I worked until eleven then Dominica, Liesl and I drove down to Mansfield to hang out with the family for a birthday party.  Brian is continuing to feel better today after his ER trip yesterday and is staying at the house to await the electricians who are scheduled to be wrapping up today.

We hung out with the family for about six hours.  Once Dominica gets into party mode it is hard to get her motivated to go back home but I have tons and tons of work needing my attention and don’t have the flexibility to take the day off, unfortunately.

So it was early evening when we got back home and discovered that the electricians never showed up.  What a pain.  They never, ever respond to email, phone, text…. nothing.  They never proactively tell us that they aren’t coming or when they might be coming.  I called and emailed over and over trying to find out why they weren’t there.  Even our general contractor could not find them.

So yet another week of work on the office skipped.  This will never get completed.

I spent the evening working and was decently productive.  There is a lot of work for me to do tomorrow, though.

Tonight is Watson’s birthday party at La Cima so the plan is that we will be going there this evening.  Dominica and I have not been at La Cima in a while.  We have just been so busy with the baby coming and all of the house stuff.  Plus not being paid for a while made us attempt to pull back on the finances as much as possible.

I worked a normal day.  Quite busy.  After work I managed to get done early enough that I was able to run home, pick up Dominica, Liesl and Souder and then drive them back down to Irving to go to La Cima.  It is a bit of a pain doing that but it doesn’t actually take any extra driving and it lets us park more easily and get to and from the club easier since Dominica is not in any condition to really take care of rambunctious Liesl at this point.

Souder spent the afternoon in the emergency room again.  He was really in rough shape today but after an afternoon in the ER he is in much better shape this evening and was even able to go out to the club with us.

It worked out well for Dominica and I who had our monthly meals to use at La Cima.  It is nearly the end of the month and we had no other plans for how we were going to squeeze in our meals before it became April so that worked out rather well.

It was Souder, Dominica, Liesl, Watson and I along with Mo and Chris, two of Watson’s friends that we had not met previously.  They were waiting for us in the lounge but we went in to dinner pretty much right away.

For a Friday night it seemed rather slow at the club.  We had a great dinner.  As I am apt to do these days, I ordered off menu which threw our newcomers for a loop.  Chris even commented “I don’t even know how to order like that!”  The club lifestyle is beginning to show after a year of membership, I think.  Although it could be all of our “foodie” vacations to Disney World where we, as vegetarians, really learned how to eat outside of the bounds of the menu as well.  Eating at the club is not really unlike being in Disney World in many ways.

My dinner was excellent, probably the best meal that I have yet had at La Cima.  Pan fried striped bass with crab topping and an almond cream sauce or something like that.  It was excellent.  Everyone was quite jealous.

We had a really nice time out tonight.  It was a lot of fun.

No real news for today.  Brian seems to be getting a little worse rather than better, but it is hard to say. It was a busy day but nothing newsworthy.  So I am keeping today short and sweet.

Enjoy your Thursday.