Sheep Guarding Llama

The Ledigs headed for Tennessee this morning.  Little to report in Irving.

I came home for lunch but work was very busy so I was pretty late and it was a short lunch.  At least I got a little Liesl time.

After work Dominica, Liesl, Souder, Dave and I went to Boston’s for dinner.  This is our last chance to have dinner with Dave as we are going to Houston tomorrow evening and he is flying back to Philadelphia on Monday.

Everything is moving along really well with the house.  Our financing is pretty much all in place – no issues there.  Everything with the physical house is going well.  The seller has agreed to all of the requests and almost everything is already done, in fact.  The seller has decided to just use our foundation guy instead of getting their own estimate and hopefully that will be happening the first week in November.  We are well on track from all perspectives for getting into the house.

The weather is great this week.  Nice and cool.  Autumn weather is North Texas is great.  I’ve been walking to work most of the week and it is very comfortable.

I just came home for lunch today and got some time with the family.  I got just a little time to play a little Oblivion while relaxing at lunch.  I am now finished with the Dark Brotherhood storyline!  Only the Thieves Guild left to go in the main storylines of the main game and I am almost at the end of that as well.  The end is within sight.  Well, the end of the main game.  I have not even attempted to enter the Shivering Isles yet.  Many hours of gameplay in there yet to go.

The Ledigs decided that Texas was so awesome that they are going to stay another day so we are hanging out this evening.

After work we met up with Kevin and Pam at the apartment and from there drove up to Carrollton so that they could see our new house – especially now that we are very confident that everything is going well and that we should be into the house reliably in November.

After seeing the house it was down to Boston’s to get pizza for dinner.

Little to report, normal work day for me.  This is going to be a busy work week, I can tell.

For lunch today, Dominica, Liesl and I went to La Cima.  We were invited over as two new members are expected to be joining today who are being sponsored by us.  This is the couple where she and I had met on the flight from BWI to DFW several months ago.  Amazing that after all this time that they actually did decide to come check out the club and, it appears, have decided to join.

Liesl was so sweet today: at one point we needed to put Oreo into his kennel and I had said that Oreo needed his blanket.  So Liesl ran across the room and grabbed her own baby blanket that she always keeps for herself and ran over to give it to Oreo!  She loves her dog.

After work this evening we met up with the Ledigs and went to La Cima for dinner.  Dominica and I had not used our meals for the month yet and this was a perfect opportunity to squeeze them in.  We had a really nice time hanging out.  Going to the club worked well because it is quiet and gave us time to actually talk and catch up.

It is Monday and time to get back to the usual schedule, as best as I can.  Back to work at the office.  It was nice getting several days away. Almost like a mini-vacation even though I worked the entire time – and I mean the entire time.  I get less time off when I am away than when I am here.  I need to get into the office just so that I can get some downtime.

For lunch several of us went to La Cima and met up with a web designer.

Very little to report today.  Work.  Then, after work, we all went to The Ranch in Las Colinas to secretly celebrate Dave’s birthday.  He doesn’t know that we know that today is his birthday.  His girlfriend emailed Souder last night while we were at Rockfish to alert us that we need to take him out partying tonight.

So as soon as I was able to get out of the office I walked home and got Dominica and Liesl and we went over to The Ranch to hang out with everyone.  Most everyone was already there, Souder, Dave, Donnie, Watson, etc.  We were a little late to the party.

After not too long Kevin and Pam showed up to hang out with us.  Tonight is when we had been planning on getting together with them all along.

Everyone had a really good time.  Liesl had a ton of fun playing with the staff, looking at the animal heads on the bar and throwing coins into the waterfall there.  One of the waitresses even asked to get her picture taken with Liesl!  She is famous.

After The Ranch, pretty much everyone came back to the apartment and hung out for a while.

We were a bunch of worn out people trying to get up this morning.  This week really wore us all out.

Once we got everyone up we headed as a group out to IHOP for breakfast.  They are pretty close, pretty cheap and easy for a large group to gather at while still being able to see and hear each other.

We all did very little today.  It was our chance to relax. Jenn headed back to Houston in the mid-afternoon.

For dinner this evening, Souder, Dave and I went to Rockfish to meet up with the other Jenn to talk about some plans over dinner.

After Rockfish we swung into the Chaat Cafe to pick up Dominica’s dinner order.  Only Dominica had forgotten to put in the order so we ordered her dinner just minutes before the kitchen closed and hung out at the bar while we waited for the food to get cooked.  While we were there we took the opportunity to have Dave try the pani puri shots that they do there.

With so many people staying at the house it is hard to get to sleep early.  It was probably after midnight by the time that everyone actually got off to bed.