Sheep Guarding Llama

Sunday.  We all did a great job of getting up and getting moving first thing this morning.  I was up around eight.  We got the car packed and were actually on the road by ten!  Go us.

We were trying to make the Spicecorps event at Eastciders in Austin, but it took longer to get down there than we wanted and we were simply unable to make it in time.  That was a bummer as Eastciders is my favourite cider company and that would have been pretty awesome.

Around four we got into our AirBnD on Sixth.  It turned out to be totally awesome.  It had two floors, plenty of places for everyone to sleep, great appointments, a sweet balcony, wonderful views of downtown Austin including the convention center, sixth, fifth, “the parking garage”, and more.  This is great, we are going to want to use this in the future.

We did not have very much time in the apartment.  We got Dominica and the girls settled in, then Paul and I went for a walk down Sixth to get to CCB’s sponsored event at Easy Tiger.  This was a really fun event.  First because we got to meet up with so many old friends.  And second because it was a great party with lots of beers, dinner, and games (I didn’t play any games.)

We were out until pretty late. Our busy Spiceworld schedule has begun.

Saturday.

For lunch today, we ordered out pizza and subs from Ralph’s. We’ve only recently discovered Ralph’s. It is so close to the house and has the best pizza that we’ve found so far in Texas. It is so close that we could actually walk to it! In fact, I have.

While having lunch, Liesl and I watched some Growing Pains.

This afternoon I watched the girls while Paul and Dominica did some driving around to check out different venues for MangoCon. We are mostly looking at places in Addison, but checking on Plano, Carrollton, and Irving, too.

I did some Laravel and PHP work this evening. Then around ten Liesl and I watched some television together.

At midnight, Rachel came buy and picked me up and we went to the Fox and Hound and played darts till closing time.

Friday. Busy work day since next week is SpiceWorld Austin and Paul, Dominica, and I are going to be out of the office. Have to be ready, we are going to be super busy next week.

Today was the busiest day on MangoLassi in history. Pretty cool.

Thursday. Today is Dominica and my fifteenth wedding anniversary!

This morning I had to work on my resume for something. It turns out that it has been so long since I had to do anything with a resume that I no longer have a copy of it or anything. I had to make a completely new one from scratch. One thing that is sad is just how much of my professional history has been lost. Hundreds of certifications, scores of jobs, not recorded.

After working on my resume for a while I went out to mow the lawn.

I finished up my new resume at seven this evening. The first major rewrite that I have done in twenty years! I have been using my resume that I wrote before SGL all of this time. The resume was so much a part of my life, so weird to have a new one.

For our wedding anniversary dinner, Dominica and I went out to Pappadeaux on Frankfort for an awesome seafood dinner. I went for the fried seafood dinner, it was just calling to me. As always the food there was amazing.

Wednesday. Started the day doing a conference call with Rodrigo. We sat on the conference call for half an hour without anyone showing up. So nice of people to take the time to cancel so that we don’t waste lots of time just sitting around waiting for them.

Other than the wasted morning call, it was rather a normal day. I worked until a quarter till four. Then one of NTG’s old interns, William, landed at Love Field and I drove out to pick him up and take him to his hotel in Plano. We have never actually met in person before. We did not have very much time to hang out, only the time to do the drive and drop him off at the hotel.

We would have had a little more time had I not thought that he was landing at DFW instead of Love and gone to the correct airport initially.

For dinner we went out to Fuzzy Taco at five thirty.

Nick came over around seven thirty for a while to hang out.

This evening Dominica and I watched Growing Pains together.