Work, Holiday Party
By Derek | December 6, 2019
A good Friday. (6th)
Regular work day for me. Exercised first thing this morning.
Finished watching all the extras for John Wick 3.
Rackspace’s Holiday Party was tonight. Jill and I attended, sans our youngest son. The theme was Circus. They had some great snack bars, not “dinner” but sliders, large pretzels, Frito pie, etc. They also had a bunch of animals there. A capybara, a lemur, some snakes, a bearded dragon and some other cool stuff, too.
A good time was had by us.
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Work, Wick, Blue Belt, Jims
By Derek | December 5, 2019
A good Thursday. (5th)
Regular work day for me.
Worked on both my primary and secondary project. Got some good stuff done.
Watched John Wick 3: Parabellum. Good movie.
Our younger son tested and made his blue belt this evening. Awesome!
Played a litle Pokemon Go, but mostly hung out at Jill’s sister’s work, Jim’s restaurant.
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Work, PT, Star Trek, Travelers
By Derek | December 4, 2019
A good Wednesday. (4th)
Regular workday for me.
Physical therapy first thing. So tiring. Good, but tiring.
Worked on catching up on email for the first half of today, then worked on my secondary (documentation) project. Good stuff.
Found out the DC Fontana passed away today. Sad.
Had a great lunch, my wife brought me food at work. Yum.
After work, we played a bit of Pokémon Go, and then made a concerted attempt to locate some unfortunate travelers who might need some help. We located two, both were very grateful for our help.
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Lunch, Airport, Robotics, Movie
By Derek | December 3, 2019
A good Tuesday. (3rd)
Exercised this morning.
Crazy Tuesday, as normal.
Lunch was BBQ Frito Pie, then I took my parents to the airport. Their trip is over and they have to head home. We didn’t have anything super special planned out, no real trips or anything besides the Johnson City lighting, but we got to spend time together. It was nice having them here for a few days.
We had a full house for robotics today, that was great. The middle school team made some good progress on their robot. Our competition is only a couple of weeks away. We also planned for the teams to come back tomorrow and get some more work in. Once a week isn’t really enough close to competition.
Our younger son had martial arts, then I watched a movie with Jill, then time for bed.
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Exercise, Ft. Sam, Family
By Derek | December 2, 2019
A good Monday. (2nd)
Exercised first thing this morning.
Went to visit Vince’s gravesite, at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. While we were there, we also visited Jill’s grandfather’s grave. We decorated Vince’s grave with some white Carnations, in remembrance. I miss my brother, but I was glad to be there with family, and the weather was perfect.
The cemetery is huge, but still has lots of room left, which I guess is good, since we’re going to stay at war forever, apparently.
Grabbed some quick lunch from Popeye’s on the way home, then had a quiet little lunch at home.
Worked on some customer computers after lunch, for just about the rest of the night.
Spent some time talking my with dad and Jill before bed.
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Library, Lounged, NDI, Nicha’s
By Derek | December 1, 2019
A good Sunday. (Dec 1st)
Slept in.
Took a trip to the library to return items and pick up some holds.
Lounged around the house mostly today.
Our friend who’s staying with is needed some help with his computer, he was having some issues with NDI. We tried a bunch of stuff before we found the issue. Essentially, he’s using NDI to stream his gaming PC to his laptop for StreamLabs OBS. What wasn’t happening is the NDI capture for SLOBS wasn’t showing up consistently from his gaming PC. We were able to make it consistently show up by disabling his unused network interfaces, disabling IPv6, and running the “NDI Studio” app on the receiving laptop after a reboot of either PC.
My sister from Arizona is working in town this week, so my family, and my parents, who are still staying with us went to dinner with her. We went to Nicha’s. Good Tex-Mex.
Came home to have some egg nog and hang out before bed.
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Breakfast, Family, Star Citizen
By Derek | November 30, 2019
A good Saturday. (30th)
Exercised first thing this morning.
Went to breakfast at IHOP with my parents, and my brother’s widow, her 3 youngest kids, and one of her older ones and his wife and kid. It was a great time.
Came back to the house, and played some Star Citizen.
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I don’t often have Saturdays off, so I was able to take advantage and play during an event that my org Synchronizerz was hosting. We had a scavenger hunt, in the Stanton system, and I came in either 5th or 6th place, out of about 30 people who started. There were only 2 prizes, though. This was the second annual scavenger hunt.
Worked on some computers remotely for a couple of customers of mine, then watched a movie with Jill. My younger son played Minecraft on his computer with a friend of his on our server.
Worked on a couple more computers, before bed.
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Lounged, Exercised, Hill Country
By Derek | November 29, 2019
A good Friday. (29th)
Woke up a bit earlier that I had planned considering how late we went to bed. Ate breakfast, then just kinda lounged for a bit.
Exercised, showered then took a quick trip to Walmart with my dad so that he could shop for Christmas gifts for the kids.
Drove out to Johnson City to check out the lights and the vendors. We do this just about every year, it’s a lot of fun. This time, we took my parents, our family friend who’s visiting and a good friend of ours.
Got home late, time for bed.
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Ham, Exercise, Cleaning, Family
By Derek | November 28, 2019
A good Thanksgiving Thursday. (28th)
Woke up semi-early, lots to do.
First thing, went to pickup the cooked ham from our favorite BBQ place. Should be super yummy!
Came home and exercised, then got right to work helping Jill clean out the bedroom that my parents are going to stay in. Spent quite a bit of time on that, vacuumed that room and the hallway.
Continued working on a customer’s computer from last night, when I started Windows Feature Update 1909, but it didn’t complete overnight using Automatic Updates. So, I downloaded the Windows 10 Update Assistant, and started that, today.
Once we were done cleaning, Jill started cooking. She made homemade stuffing, and sweet potatoes. Yum.
My parents got here around 2pm, and Jill’s step mom showed up just a few minutes after.
We popped the ham in the oven once the sides were ready, and I left to pick up our older son to join in the festivities.
When all was ready we had our Thanksgiving meal. The food was wonderful, and we also had three pies and the custard/pudding stuff I made last night to choose from for dessert.
After dinner, we just hung out and spent some good quality time with our folks. Once it got late enough, I broke out the Warre’s Port, and my dad, my older son, and I all had a glass. I really like the 20 year Tawny Port ( https://www.otimaport.com/wine/otima-20/2 ), although the 10 year is pretty great as well.
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Work, Miyazaki, Exercise, Cleaning
By Derek | November 27, 2019
A good Wednesday. (27th)
Regular work day for me. Hoping it will be quiet, since I have PTO the rest of the week.
Watched a great video on Hayao Miyazaki’s films. 12m17s.
Exercised after work, since I didn’t get up early enough to do it before.
Worked with Jill on cleaning the house more, really worked on our upstairs bathroom, it was in need of mopping, and the counter was in need of cleaning off and completely wiping down.
Worked on another couple of computers for a client remotely.
Made some eggnog non-jello brand gelatin that we bought the other day at Culebra Meat Market. Put it in the fridge, I hope it comes out good.
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