Sheep Guarding Llama

Monday. Tomorrow is voting day in the US. Be sure to get out and vote. Just a work day here in Dallas. We are back after our nearly week in Houston with the Grices and the Toccos. Glad to have our beds back here.

We are in Houston still this morning from Halloween. We packed up pretty early this morning and managed to get on the road just before ten in the morning. We managed to sneak out of Houston between the rush hours, and managed to get through Dallas on the early side for rush hour. So it was a pretty effective drive.

Starting the day doing some MangoLassi maintenance. Then made some coffee. Then off to work on FreePBX for some customers.

The girls were being maniacs this morning. Running around the house like crazy people. All kinds of screaming and running. I have no idea what got them so wired.

I did a BookStack build today. Going to be doing a lot of documentation work with that soon.

Still in Houston today. This evening we went over to Joe’s for dinner.

Woke up at five this morning.  Figured that I would just get up and start getting to work.  I was the first one up, even more Paul or Francesca who are traditionally the first ones awake.

I got a lot done, today.  It was super productive.  I’ve been working really hard on getting my email down to zero stuff in my inbox, which is a lot of work.  But the progress has been great and it makes me feel so much better.  Rodrigo and I have been working on eliminating the backlog of tickets, too, and that has been going really well.  So there is a real sense of accomplishing things.

The kitchen setup with my Dell laptop, and the new 24″ Element screen, and the Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse has really been working well.  The only real problem is the bright sunlight that hits in the late morning and the overall noise in the house, which isn’t too bad today.

Dominica made breakfast sandwiches again today, but today with English muffins.  She and Paul are really loving the breakfast sandwich maker that Francesca has and are determined to buy one once we are back home.  I’m not so fond of it.  I like breakfast sandwiches, likely more than either of them, but feel that it doesn’t do all that good of a job making them.  At least today with English muffins they were pretty good, but the last two days with a biscuit yesterday and a bagel the day before, it did a terrible job and it was just bread in the middle with an outside ring of egg.  Not good at all, not even actually a sandwich!

The kids hing out at the dining room table for a while with me so that they could do their homework while I was working on my laptop.

This afternoon, Madeline came home on the down low and sneaked into the house and hid upstairs for a while.  I was the only one that saw her sneak into the house (Emily was coordinating everything.)  She surprised pretty much everyone.  No one was expecting her.

We have loads of job applications flooding in now.  We are very excited.  We have a lot to sort though, we need to start interviews soon.

Thursday.  The cousins are off of school today, so it is an all fun day.  We decided that we are going to stay in Houston through most of the weekend, so this morning Paul and Dominica went shopping and picked me up a wireless keyboard and mouse and a 24″ LED 1080p monitor that is pretty small and decently portable so that I can have a real setup in the dining room and be much more productive.  This’ll be my regular, travel setup.  I have a great laptop, it is just so small that it is hard to work from it full time on its own.

It’s cold today, but the kids wanted to swim.  So swim they did, for hours.  It was so cold, no way that any of the adults were going to consider going in.

We did some job postings for the hiring that we want to do in Mexico and Panama.  We are very excited to see if it works.  We’ve been struggling to hire for quite some time and now we have more of a need for people so this is a new adventure for us.