June 8, 2018: The Family Leaves for a Month

Friday. My lonely month without the family begins. They were out and on the road at eight this morning. Paul drove them in the minivan out to Louisiana’s border where they met up with the Grices and headed off for their drive to New York. Paul then drove back to the house getting back in the evening. I had to stay home and work all day, I would have driven the family out, but it would have meant a day without me covering things at work and that was really not an option. So I had to stay home and not get the last hours with the family myself. But we spent yesterday together instead.

My morning was very busy at work, but I also started my usual pattern of cleaning the house now that no one is here. I did two loads of dishes before noon!

Did Rocket.Chat rollouts today. Then this afternoon, I worked with Maggie doing technical training.

This evening, Paul and I put in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Party One and made it one step closer to Paul having completed the series.

June 7, 2018: Last Day with the Family

Thursday. I essentially took the day off from work to spend with the family. They are all leaving me first thing in the morning. Liesl and Luciana are heading up to New York to spend the summer with their grandparents in Frankfort. Dominica and Madeline are heading to the airport in Newburg to fly to Dublin and begin their adventures in Ireland and England for the summer.

Dominica did her last minute packing and planning.

This evening, the girls and I watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban together as our final time to hang out before we do not see each other for weeks.

June 6, 2018: Packing and Prepping for the Summer Trips

Wednesday. Got up around eight. Was brewing coffee by eight thirty. I had a call that started at eight and I didn’t get to get off of the phone until after noon!

This week is very busy. The family is leaving in just two days to head off to New York (for the kids), and to Ireland (for Dominica and Madeline) so there is a ton of packing going on and a lot of hanging out as I am not going to be seeing my kids for quite some time.

In some ways, the timing is good. I need a month to do nothing but work. But it has been two very hard, stressful, and depressing months and having all of the family away for a month is not going to do much to make me feel better. I am going to be very lonely.

June 5, 2018: Hail of a Night

I had gotten to bed early last night, and that means that a lot of work piled up during the night. So even though I was up at a good time this morning, I was a bit behind. So I started the day trying to catch up with everything from work.

We had a super busy day on MangoLassi today. We brought the three million monthly thread loads number today, a very exciting benchmark.

I was quite busy today. Busy with ML during the day, and this evening I was doing consulting work for a road cleaning company in Salt Lake City and Denver until decently late. A busy day for me.

Tonight, after midnight, we got some crazy hail here in Dallas. Hail the size of pennies coming down at one thirty in the morning. I had to stay up so that I could keep tabs on the hail and make sure that we were not getting too much damage. One of the worst parts of owning a house, the constant worry of something like a hail storm destroying your home.