So, This Is Summer!

OK; the reality is that I've done very little "work" as related to my actual job. But I've gotta say, I don't remember ever having a summer where I've had so much to do so quickly after the end of the school year! We knew going in that we were going to have to "front-load" our summer since the beginning of July would bring an avalanche of items out of our control.

Right out of the gate, we took our vacation. So, it's appropriate that our little white-water-rafting trip in Durango, Colorado was a pretty good analogy to the summer so far. It started out busy, but fun. You see us paddling with big grins on our faces! We had to get that vacation in immediately before everything else happened......

..... then this! We went over a big rock, went into the hole on the other side, didn't have enough strong rowers in the raft, so the whole thing got stuck in the hole and we start going over the side. You can see my leg sticking up over the right side there. I started out on the left! My wife and son (who were on the right) are already gone. What you don't see is that it's going to go up on it's side (again) and everyone else will go out as well...including the guide. So, we got back from our little trip up to Colorado tired, but happy...... then it just goes downhill from there.

 First, I have 3 training days in the space of a week for new systems at school. 

Then; on top of our friends coming to visit, my brother/sister-in-law complete with their four children fly in from Austria! Both things are awesome, but both happening at once made for a busy weekend.

Oh! Did I forget that on the particular Friday that the friends were arriving, and the family was flying in, my other sister-in-law delivered her baby...... yeah...... 

That morning, I also went over to a commercial client and started the process of doing a 3-year rebuild on their main PC. 

This was over the 4th of July weekend, after which I promised to have the newly rebuild computer online on Tuesday morning the 5th. Fireworks symbolizing this and the 4th is all too appropriate! In the middle of this, I've been helping my brother-in-law car shop for a large SUV so that they can have a car to drive their large family around the country. Yesterday, I finally had a day off. 

OK; not really. I forgot to mention that my wife was offered a new job last week (yes, in the middle of the craziness). So yeah; my worse nightmare. Moving my elementary teacher-wife's stuff and since her new job isn't as a classroom teacher, it all had to come home! Therefore, the last two day included moving stuff out of her classroom.... in 100 degree Texas summer heat! Yup.... this is what I did on my "day off". I started by making the second trip to her classroom and filling up the space previously known as the garage. Then the wonderful woman that I married volunteered to take all the kids (our 2, sister-in-law's 4, other sister-in-law's 1 of 2) over to the grandparents for swimming. So I spent the rest of the day, reloading a laptop for my commercial client since it's MS Updates stopped working, building my brother-in-law a HTPC from old parts so they could watch Kodi and watching YouTube. 

 Half the summer's over and I'm exhausted already!