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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Now We Wait, Day 10

31-Jan-07

…sob. You ever get so tired from being elated and terrified that you just can’t do it anymore? Like Lisa, I’m feeling that way, compounded by the fact that I just simply can’t sleep. Take last night. I had every intention of going to bed at 9pm. WELL, what happens? Law and Order starts. I [...]

Now We Wait, Day 9

30-Jan-07

The baby is officially late. Lisa is officially miserable, but she’s being a good sport. — The picture of the car never made it because I couldn’t be bothered to unpack my laptop. Worse still, xD picture cards are a weird proprietary format, so to upload them in windows I have to find the driver [...]

Now We Wait, Day 5

26-Jan-07

We went to get some Indian food, which last time gave Lisa contractions (yeah, that’s something you want to advertise, right?). In any event, we’ll see, we’ll see. In other news, to completely mess with your heads, we changed our phone numbers right before the baby is due. How awesome are we? Lisa opted for [...]

Now We Wait, Day 4

25-Jan-07

I hope for Lisa’s sake the number of days stays in the single digits. I do recognize that I more or less started the count arbitrarily – but there was nothing preventing the baby from coming out last week or this week, so it’s fair (I think). — Since Kubuntu went kaput a few weeks [...]

Now We Wait, Day 3

24-Jan-07

There are a lot of fears when you have a baby – will you be a good parent, will he/she grow up to be a good person, what about job security? Will I raise her right? Then there are the trite ones – the ones that you fear talking to people about, because it makes [...]

Now We Wait, Day 2

23-Jan-07

No contractions, no labor, at least as of 2.30pm. I imagine Lisa will call me if she starts feeling them with some regularity. Last night was day #infinity plus 6 (so it seems) of waiting for the baby, and preparing for the baby. Specifically, we went grocery shopping. Let me tell you, it took almost [...]

And Now We Wait

22-Jan-07

Strictly as an observation, I was quite surprised by the front loading of baby birth picks. It’s our first child, and historically, babies come late. The unofficial due date is the 26th, the official due date is the 29th – but if I wanted movie tickets, I would’ve aimed for between the 28th and 31st, [...]

Possibly the Last Friday

19-Jan-07

…before the baby! — For $4 and some change, you can head down over the J&N’s Pizza to get just that, or some amazing lo mein or rice combo. It’ll leave you stuffed, sweating from the spice, and throughly satisfied. Today was the extra spicy chicken and broccoli – heaven. Their wings are out of [...]

Notes from all over

18-Jan-07

As per my whim, after ripping up the carpet upstairs I celebrated by trashing my Linux installation. It was perfect, indeed, but I decided to install something that only a few days ago I knew would be a bad idea. Turns out it caused a ‘kernel panic’ and that was the end of that. So, [...]

12-Jan-07

We live in fascinating, strange times. First, Lisa is my hero, let me say for starters. Lisa, prior to last night, had only gotten three hours of sleep because of contractions. Not enough to be labor, but enough to keep her awake at night. This on top of other nights of having no sleep. Yet! [...]