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11:49 PM. From down the hall, an ominous THUMP…. THUMP…. THUMP… The sound of Claire kicking her legs against the mattress like some kind of imprisoned mermaid.

Me: Drums… Drums in the deep…
Liz: You know, that’s what I think every time she does that.
Me: Damn, I love you.

I spent the better part of a week in bed with a nasty case of influenza–chills, aches, sweats, nausea, digestive “issues”, 102.9 degree fever–the works. And once again, everyone in my family had the great taste to all get sick at the exact same time, so you can imagine the fun that Liz and […]

I couldn’t leave well enough alone. Besides making a great photo subject and an excellent supply of desktop backgrounds, it turns out that Claire secretly yearns to be a Livejournal userpic diva:

Yes, there is a full-size version of that last one, in case you feel like reading the entire caption.

Mood:dorky

Tonight something new happened. Tonight, I had to define a word for Mike. And, it was a non-wine related word!
The word was jamcracker. I learned the meaning of this word about 6 years ago back when I was in the venture capital world. And not because of my extensive logging knowledge.
A […]

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My mother-in-law dropped off this “calming vibrations” baby chair in anticipation of our eventual new arrival, but Julia seems to have already staked her own claim to it.
(And there are more cute cat photos if you need them.)
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Oh, and my computer is still alive–turns […]

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I thoroughly expect that the cats will murder us in our sleep for this, but we couldn’t resist having Julia model one of the baby hats that Liz’s mom knitted.
Yes, I think it’s safe to say that someone is definitely plotting some revenge…

Thanks to my wife for spotting this particularly amusing reminder of why I love Google News:

Mood:amused
Music:The KLF - “Last Train to Trancentral (808base Version)”

Good: Got first big chunk of big project delivered on time and more or less working as desired. Business folks are generally happy with what our team produced in the limited time available.
Bad: Had to miss the holiday party at German class in order to get there, so no Sekt and no […]

Having (finally) had some success with Twisted and Jabber, I am taking a moment to celebrate with a bottle of Harp. The NerdBooks.com party was pretty cool, though mellow. They have an insane selection of books — everything from animation to signal processing. As it turns out, they have insanely great prices […]

Some part of today managed to melt what’s left of my brain, so I settled for skimming rather than chiseling away at my reading, and that has degenerated into a need to close browser tabs and assault you all with another installment of…

My cool flickr-based link du jour is Spell with flickr, which lets you […]