May 26, 2018: Madeline’s Graduation Party

Saturday. Today is the party. Much to be done. The party prep got started in the early morning. It was an all day affair. We spent the early morning setting up tables and chairs. So much to do.

I caught the littles up on the air mattress jumping on it trying to launch each other into the air. Not even their own air mattress, but Paul’s!

The kids didn’t get in the pool when they could, and then they got in big trouble and got put in time out, and missed their chances in the pool.

Today we had a toilet disaster. Liesl was trapped in the bathroom with two locked doors and the toilet didn’t just clog, but the flap broke and just kept flowing. So the toilet overflowed and Liesl could not get out of the bathroom and I could not get in to help her. What a disaster. I finally managed to get in the door. I had to open up the toilet and stop the flow by hand. There was no way to shut it off at the wall. I had to stand there keeping the water from flowing while Liesl went running to find Bennie. Once Bennie came up, we were able to find a way to get the water shut off. The outlet from the wall was broken so that you could not cut off the water properly.

So bathroom cleanup went on for a really long time. What a project that was once we managed to get the toilet fixed.

The graduation party started at four and went all evening. There was a huge number of teens, and they all got in the pool. The pool went from clear and blue to green and hazy in no time. The food was really great, Daniel’s family brought loads of real, authentic homemade Mexican and did a BBQ, too. It was all very impressive.

It was an exhausting day. We went until late. Lots to clean up. Tomorrow we are heading back up to Dallas.

May 25, 2018: Madeline’s Graduation Party Weekend

Friday. We are in Houston at the Grices’ this weekend for the holiday weekend. We got in last night. This morning was a quiet day around the house. This weekend is Madeline’s graduation party, which is being held at the house. The party is tomorrow, today is mostly preparing for it. So things were pretty light for me. But Dominica was super busy helping out with all of the preparations and cooking and stuff like that.

The party is being held at the Grices’ house. It is a dual party for both Madeline and Daniel. They are doing a pool party, so it is going to be pretty wild. And a lot of work.

May 24, 2018: Taco Bell Dancing

It has become a regular mantra, but today was just super busy at work.  I got in and didn’t get a chance to update anything until after the work day was done.  May is a record busy month for me.  I’m physically and emotionally exhausted.  My adventures with Comcast outages still continues.  We’ve had more than a month of continuous Comcast outages driving me totally crazy.

After work was over, I packed up the girls and we drove down to Houston.  While on the road, we stopped in at Taco Bell to get dinner.

Ciana was very happy to be at Taco Bell.

May 23, 2018: Server Update Day

I was up and working by seven thirty this morning. I got in about an hour on the desk before I had my first conference call of the morning.

Veggie fried rice for lunch today.

Long day after that. I managed to wrap up around six.

Lucky Charms for dinner tonight. Very fancy.

After dinner, was doing PBX updates. Then NodeBB updates. Then server updates. Did updates until after one thirty in the morning.

May 22, 2018: Drinks with Rich

A busy morning. I didn’t get a chance to get to my coffee until after ten thirty, or to even get on MangoLassi to say good morning! It was a busy day and I didn’t get a chance to record anything about the day. Just working at my desk all day.

This evening Paul ran out and picked up Popeye’s for dinner tonight.

Rich Gallo was in town today. I’ve not seen him in a few years. We managed to make connections and I drove down to Irving and picked him up at his hotel and we went out to a local bar to get drinks and hang out for a while. It was great to catch up. We’ve both had a really crazy last few years.

I forgot to bring him the Hard Rock pins that we’d been collecting for him from around the world, though. Maybe next time.

Got the kids to bed at half past midnight and got off to bed myself.