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It’s hard to believe that Claire is now 256 days old, or just over 0.701 years! It has an oddly familiar way of feeling simultaneously like both an eternity and an eyeblink. We’re getting more sleep than in the zombie days of October and January/February, which is a definite plus, although we seem […]

As the Christmas Day festivities wound down and we settled into a quiet afternoon together, Liz asked me a question:
“Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?”
My thoughts flickered quickly across the warm and happy morning spent with my beautiful wife and daughter, singing songs, opening presents, cooking breakfast together, playing with the cats. […]

I haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve either been too busy to write anything or too not-busy to have anything worth writing about. So here’s a quick recap of what I’ve been up to, in more or less random order.
I’m thinking of moving our blogs to private hosting on WebFaction, partly because I […]

Yes people you read that correct! Once in a while customer service CAN do something right.
Last week I ordered a case of diapers for the first time online from drugstore.com. They were cheaper than getting them at the store and we know we’ll go through that many, so why not. When the […]

Yeah!!! Steve made it through the first challenge!!!
Now is there a formula for how much the value of the dress goes up by for every eposide he’s on?

Mood: bouncy

Phew! It’s been crazy busy the past couple of weeks. I can’t believe I haven’t had time to come up for (blog) air since before Halloween.
First of all, I’m happy to announce that after a lot of extra work on the weekends and evenings to get things wrapped up, AG’s new custom photo […]

Between work and Claire, life has been too busy to blog lately. In the office, it’s crunch time again, which means weird hours and sometimes some weekend heroics; at home, we’ve had some rough going with the whole getting-Claire-to-sleep thing.
So we’re giving up on the “let the baby figure out when to be asleep […]

Monday was 28 days, tonight is 30 days; according to the calendar, that makes Claire a full calendar month old. My inner optimist tells me that every day where the three of us are all still here together is a victory, but my inner everyone else persistently beats the crud out of that optimist […]

For those of you who haven’t heard, this is why I haven’t posted much in the last month.
Now that the visitors are all gone, and it’s just the 5 of us, I now am attempting to find a routine. Or really, find out if a routine is even possible.
It’s been an interesting month and […]

So this link got tossed around our developer chat at work the other day, mostly to make fun of the idea and put down its author, but I find myself intrigued to the point that I can’t stop thinking about it. Why not have a set of personal unit tests?
Let’s be blunt; I pretty […]