Sheep Guarding Llama

Saturday and time to finally get up to New York.  I am driving this trip alone this direction.  The drive went well today.  No issues at all.  Looking forward to getting to New York.  But I need to make a stop in Pennsylvania first.  So no way to make it all of the way in one shot.

I did so well driving today, maybe because I have not been driving all that much for a while, that I really felt like I could make the drive all of the way back home without stopping.  But I have a meeting, and I allowed myself two days to get there to make sure that I could make it.  So today could not be a marathon drive even though I was really feeling it.

I decided just north of Nashville that it was time to grab a hotel so that I would have a place to stop that made sense.  I really wanted to keep driving, but it didn’t make any sense.

I ended up getting a Tru by Hilton around Louisville.  It turned out to be a really nice hotel, I like the Tru feel.  It’s a bit more modern.

So I got a nice night of sleep ahead of me.  I stopped early and have very little distance to travel tomorrow.

Friday. Last day at home in Texas. Tomorrow I am getting on the road and driving to New York, or at least starting to. Spent the day working and packing.

This evening, Paul and I went out to Torchy’s Tacos to try it out. It wasn’t bad, but not our favourite. The place was way too crowded. Good taco selection, don’t know how much we are likely to go back, we have lots of potential taco places to go. It did have some decent vegetarian options. Maybe Dominica will want to try it.

Thursday. Up and working this morning. First project of the day, TLS certs. Worked another busy day, all day. Never got a chance to record what I was doing. Starting to pack so that I can leave for New York in a couple of days.

This morning started out with a major Slack outage which massively impacted some of our customers. So that made for a pretty dramatic change of pace for the early morning.

My friend Joy left her home in Manila last night and is landing in Australia early this morning. This is her first actual vacation ever. She has never been to another country before. So she is super excited. She is running the Gold Coast Marathon while she is there.

Did some NodeBB maintenance this afternoon.

Some of the team came over to work this evening. We did a sales meeting till after midnight.

Tuesday. I am getting closer to being done with my stretch of being without the family down in Texas. I will be heading up to see dad later this week.

Keeping myself very busy as long as I can. Only a few days left. I can keep it up.

This evening while I was working in my office Paul popped in and looked at me and just said… “ice cream?” So we hopped in the truck and drove down to Josey Ranch and went to Braums and got some awesome ice cream for “dinner”, and picked up some groceries to take home.