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Friday.  It is Dominica’s birthday weekend.  She doesn’t really turn forty (eek, don’t say that) for four days, but the kids are away this week in Houston with the family so we are hanging out around Dallas which we never get to do with the kids to celebrate her birthday.

I had a busy work morning, but that is pretty typical.

Paul, Kat, Dominica, and I all went downtown and did Dominica’s birthday dinner at Revenna right downtown which was really nice.  Dominica’s highlight from dinner, though, was that they had genuine canoli just like in Italy.  They wouldn’t tell her their source, though.  It was definitely the right choice for a birthday dinner, though.

This evening we went out to a club downtown and did some dancing to a 90s and 2000s cover band that was actually really good.  We had a good time and the music selection was a lot of fun.

Thursday.  It was a busy day without much time to keep up on my logs.  I had tons of work to do to get ready to be able to go out this weekend and not have to spend the weekend working, if at all possible.  We are all going to be celebrating Dominica’s birthday this weekend and I am trying to have the time free.  So that is where I have been, just head down working all day.  The kids are not around, so no reason to spend time even in the evening not working to be with them.

For food today, it was nothing but fresh fruit and steamed veggies for me.

Wednesday. Another busy day.  Lots to do with the kids gone and the weekend coming up for Dominica’s birthday outing.  So my week is mostly working long days to get as much done as possible before the kids come up on Sunday or Monday.  We aren’t sure exactly when they are coming back, yet.  But they have to be home by Monday afternoon so that is the latest.

Tuesday.

The Bard’s Tale Trilogy of games, that I fell in love with when I was just eleven years old and is the basis for my love of RPGs today, has just re-released today in an updated version that will run on Windows 10!  Hard to believe, more than three decades later, that they are still releasing these games and two sequels are due out soon.  These re-releases are pretty true to the originals, but rewritten so not running the original Commodore 64 code.  I’m definitely very interested.

For lunch today, I just made myself a big bowl of steamed veggies.  I’m working very hard on being healthy.

The Nissan Quest went into the shop today.  I was all prepared for things to be really bad.  It’s had transmission and suspensions problems for a while now.  So many things seem “loose” or “sloppy”, it worries me to drive it. I was totally prepared for the shop to tell us that we needed a major amount of suspension work done.  The answer… our battery was bad and it was causing all kinds of electrical problems in the car from low voltage!  So what might have been a few thousand dollars ended up being more like one hundred dollars.  And we got the car back, and it is driving great!

After work this evening, Kat came over and we had cheese tray dinner.  It was delicious.  I did not manage to get a picture of the mango stilton in the image.

After the cheese plate came the bread, biscuits, and cake plate, of which I did not partake.

We had a great time and are looking forward to more regular cheese tray evenings.  This was delicious and a lot of fun.  And no kids to try to eat our cheeses 😉

Monday. Back home in Dallas today.  The kids were left in Houston and will be there all week.  So just the adults for the next six days.  Today was all work and just us hanging out at the house here this evening.  Nothing really to report.