Sheep Guarding Llama

Wednesday.  I found Liesl up and reading her book before six this morning.  Not something that we usually have happen.  I think, from what I learned from her, is that she got woken up by Luciana’s feet touching her and it made her mad so she got up and read since she couldn’t sleep.

Some alarm went off at six thirty that I couldn’t find.  Or maybe it was a phone call or something.  I never found the device responsible.  But I was awake from it so got up and went into the office to get to work.

It was a very orange morning today, no question that a storm was rolling in and by eight it was strong thunder.  We are due for rain the whole day.

I had a long and overly busy morning.  But just after noon I was doing shots of rum at my desk.

My day stayed busy and after lunch, I had no time to record anything.

Tuesday.  I had to be up and working by around seven thirty this morning!  Not fun after working till one or two in the morning last night.

While working in my office today, I heard some sounds in the kitchen and came out to investigate.  I discovered Luciana, all on her own, making her own batch of slime without anyone helping her at all!

She was doing a great job.  I can’t believe how well it was turning out without having anyone at all doing it with her.  She managed to get all of the stuff, set it up, and mix it properly for a nice, big batch; all by herself.  So impressive.

Monday.  I had to be up quite early this morning, around six, to “man the phones” as I was the morning coverage today.  So very little sleep for me.  I’ve been pretty busy.

Dominica and Paul went out grocery shopping this morning.  It’s so great that they are able to do that and I do not need to be involved.  I hate grocery shopping normally.  Too stressful and I don’t know where anything is.

Dominica and Paul say that they are starting new diets this morning.  We will see how long that lasts.  They were going to “walk every day”, too.  But that lasted only one day.

For lunch today, I had broccoli in a cheese sauce that I could steam in a bag.

I worked all day, it was rather busy.  I did NextCloud updates this evening, on 14.0.1 now.

Liesl and I started playing King’s Quest (2015), the recent remake of the famous early 1980s series.  I have to say, they did quite an amazing job of revamping the classic series. Both Liesl and I really enjoyed it.  The graphics are great, the voice acting is great, the story is silly and well done.  It does a great job of starting over, without actually starting over.  King Graham telling the story to his granddaughter is a really interesting twist and a lot of fun.  Liesl loved it.

Like most of my day, my entire evening has been spent on the phone.  I worked till well after midnight.  We are dealing with interviews and such.  Just so busy.

Sunday and the Autumnal Equinox came early this morning.  It is officially fall.

I did a bit of work today.  I was in and out of the office much of the day.

Kat came over this evening.  We’ve not seen her in weeks.  I worked most of the evening.  Dominica and Paul put together our traditional cheese trays for when she’d come over.  The food was great, and Liesl joined us, she is starting to really like our cheese trays.

This evening I was doing some research on where we could stream different shows and I discovered that after all of these years, Growing Pains is now available on Amazon Prime!

Growing Pains was my second favourite show of my childhood, after Who’s the Boss.  It started in late 1985, when I was just nine years old, exactly Liesl’s age.  Sadly, Who’s the Boss is not available anywhere to stream currently, which is terrible as I really wish that I could watch it with the kids.  But I am so excited that Growing Pains is available.

Liesl agreed to join me in the living room to watch it together tonight.  I am so excited.  We watched three episodes of Growing Pains together and she likes it!  I can’t wait till we can watch the whole series.

Dominica watched with us, too, although she was doing Legos a bit of the time.

Luciana decided that tonight was her big reading not.  She had me set her up with the CloudLibrary app on her iPhone from the Carrollton Library so that she could find and read books on her own.

We got her set up and she loves it.  We borrowed four beginner books for her and she read all four.  So we returned them and got four more, and she read all of those, too!  She loves to read and really wants to read harder stuff, but is struggling to find a good balance of things at the library.

Liesl was late getting to bed tonight and it was three minutes before midnight when she went to do her DuoLingo for the day, and her phone was dead.  She ended up losing a twelve day streak and was incredibly upset.  She cried for at least half an hour because she had been working so hard on that.

I read the girls a chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and it was off to bed.

We had a major personal tragedy for one of our workers tonight and so I have to be up early tomorrow morning.  Not a lot of sleep for me tonight.

Saturday and the last day of summer.  Our week has been all rain, hasn’t felt like summer for days.  Next week will be warm again, but this has been nice.

I was very, very sad to learn today that Telltale Games, one of the best video game studios out there of the last decade, that makes a lot of our favourite game series, just up and went out of business without warning leaving a load of really exciting things unfinished, which is heart breaking.  Like The Walking Dead series that was just two episodes away from completion (and a lot of people had already paid for) will not be finished now.  And the Stranger Things game that had been announced, won’t be happening.  And The Wolf Among Us 2 that we had hoped for, was cancelled.  Rumor is that Minecraft: Story Mode 2 will be completed thanks to Netflix’ contractual obligations, at least.

Liesl played Roblox much of the afternoon.  She just hunkered down in the living room and played most of the evening.  Luciana played with her maybe half of the time.  They still really love that game, even when their cousins are not playing online with them.

Dominica and Paul went to shoot pool and play darts this evening pretty late.  So Liesl and I played, and completed, the first episode of King’s Question (2015), which was a lot of fun.  Good story, great graphics, and very fun.  Liesl really enjoyed it.  Now we just need a sale so that we can get the later episodes for it.

Great game, I can’t wait to play more.  I really hope that the Odd Gentlemen turn out some more titles like this.