Heading to the company meeting in Dallas, I was able to swing into Gainsville, TX for a couple of days to visit Bob And Doris (my Uncle and Aunt on my Dad’s side).
Doris is pretty much confined to a bed or wheelchair, but amazingly she seems to be in good spirits and would be her same old self if only her body would cooperate.
Bob is ok aside from a month long lung infection of some sort and continual problems with his coumadin.
After a very short time at the company, I’m (currently) at the company meeting in Dallas, TX. It’s been fantastic, and for me to say that about a company meeting – you had better recognize the significance. The people are spread out over the country and all work in their own areas, so most I havn’t met. The purpose of these meetings is to get together and basically say what we’ve each done and what we’re going to be doing.
Everyone seems to be gearing up for the baby-shower. I’m sure its going to be rife with “ooohh” and “awww” and “isn’t that
cute”. Typically I’m pretty easygoing about such things, but in this
case, I’m glad it’s a woman-only-affair. That said, Anita is surprising herself with how into the whole affair she is becoming. Those hormones are potent, it seems.
To all friends who were not invited… guess what… no friends were.
Here are some fun pictures of Anita and Penelope. She’s now 7 months pregnant and starting to get a bit un-comfortably pregnant. Parts of her fall asleep without reasonable cause. Getting up is more of a challenge than it’s ever been before. Penelope is kicking most of the time, sometime flipping around and keeping things interesting… occasionally kicking down – apparently very painful, that.
Checkout these photos of a spider “taking care of” a recently caught moth. The color leaves a bit to be desired, but the subject matter afforded an opportunity to play with manual focus on the camera from a close distance… also it’s neat to see something like this, zoomed in.
[Checkout these photos of a spider “taking care of” a recently caught moth. The color leaves a bit to be desired, but the subject matter afforded an opportunity to play with manual focus on the camera from a close distance… also it’s neat to see something like this, zoomed in.
Clusters are inherently cool anyway… there are much cheaper ways of doing it… but how sexy is that? Take one of the clustered PS3’s out of the mix, play some games… put it back in to crunching.
Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster
A few people have asked me for photos of Anita… I’ve been lax in uploading and in fact I have more on a camera still… but I might as well provide easy links for the ones I’ve uploaded so far…
https://zeroasterisk.com/photos/v/friends/2007/ (slideshow)
Here are some samples:
If you’re tired of propaganda; tired of conspiracy theorists telling you that your media is mostly brainwashing you into the party line of big brother… Wake up.
There is a lot of conspiracy theory which must be wrong. It’s nuts… so you choose not to belive it. You don’t accept things at face value. You look for evidence to refute crazy stories.
Good.
Do so. But do so, also, to the “official story”.
Thanks to Anita doing research (and generally being excited in all things baby’ish) we have a more solid conviction to cloth diapers.
http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/diapers/joy-of-cloth.html – good article on pros and cons http://www.greenmountaindiapers.com/newmom.htm – good pictures and helpful info on how to use and chose which type And in case you haven’t heard or picked up on it… we have pretty much decided on the name “Penelope” after finding out that it was going to be a girl at yesterday’s ultrasound.