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Quoth one of my co-workers at a meeting this morning with some product reps: "Yeah, I ran miso on a .4 poisson and got some really high stress razors." Ummm...ok, what? I guess I should learn some more of the lingo surrounding the engineering work we do around here, as I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about having a painful nervous system reaction to 4/10 of a fish bathed in a fermented soy product. |
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Dec. 5th, 2007 @ 05:02 pm
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Ok, I suppose I'm due for an update...it's been, what, 7 months? My lurkin' shoes are wore out.
It's been an eventful half-year. Riley's now a 17-pound chunk, eating solid food and pulling himself up to stand. Still arguably the best-looking baby on the planet. Note to self: post new pictures on Flickr. We've ventured out across the country twice this fall, first up to Alfred, Maine for our annual Boston couples group reunion, and then to Minnesota to visit grandparents and various other relatives for Thanksgiving (and Riley's first snow!). Discovered that Riley's a pretty good flier, cranking out considerably less noise while on board than his co-passenger peers. We also bought a house! Closed on it just before the Thanksgiving trip and moved in over the week following. It's nothing overly extravagant, though much more space than we've had before; it's a 2100 sq. ft., 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch on the north side of town.
And that's really about it! Life with a small child can get rather inwardly-focused, especially for me as I lean that direction anyway, but I think we're gradually reversing that trend. The holiday season should help, given the sheer volume of social events in the upcoming weeks. |
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May. 9th, 2007 @ 07:54 pm
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Ah, I knew I was forgetting something...sorry for leaving any of you folks who still read this hanging. Riley James arrived at 7:27 a.m., weighing in at 7lbs 10oz and measuring 20 inches long. He and Brooke are both doing great.
Now for the important part...the pictures!
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May. 8th, 2007 @ 11:00 pm
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Riley arrival countdown: T-minus 8 hours, 30 minutes.
Crazy. |
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Apr. 4th, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
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Wow, Google is a little scary sometimes...I was starting up Firefox this morning, my first intention being to get some details on WiMax to see if it would potentially be usable for this project we've got going on in West Africa, so up pops Gmail (amongst the barrage of the 40-odd tabs in my perpetually saved session), and the random web clip headline is "WiMAX to Go Live in Warwick". Definitely a little disconcerting. Note to self: remember your tinfoil hat tomorrow. |
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Ok, time for my more-or-less monthly update, before March slips away from me. We've been crazy busy, but despite that, everything's been going pretty well. Brooke's in good health and spirits, and Riley's growing like crazy; it looks like he's about a week ahead of the curve, size-wise.
For my part, I'm having a rather grown-up-feeling time of things lately, due in large part to the reality of impending parenthood, as driven home by the childbirth class we've been attending. Augmenting that entirely sufficient factor, the past week's events have added to the prevailing sense of responsibility and age. I kicked off the week with an event that has been almost a decade in the making; that's right, I'm finally a fully licensed driver. Having finally gone through with it, I'm definitely feeling a bit idiotic for not getting it over with earlier. Though honestly, the real issue has been the combination of my being very much not a morning person and the Texas DPS's obnoxious road test scheduling policy (which requires, for the uninformed, showing up at "the crack of a sparrow's fart," as my colorful British colleague so delicately put it). Factor 2 came yesterday, when my boss and I finally found some time to get sit down and hash out the current situation, which resulted in my being promoted out of contract status to full-time employee. It's really mostly an on-paper sort of change, though it actually amounts to a significant raise in that we don't have to pay that dang self-employment tax next year! And factor 3 is the fact that tomorrow morning, we're becoming godparents to the daughter of one of our friends here.
Despite all this, I find myself not infrequently up 'til 2am hunting the fiends of Ivalice and trying to snag just a few more points in my career as a tennis pro. How the heck did I get to be an adult?
Mar. 24th, 2007 @ 08:03 pm
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Man, this post is way overdue. What has it been, a month or so? Crazy. As I mentioned before, we have a name...Riley James Nyberg should be arriving sometime in mid-May. It's funny how the naming thing seems to work; we had pretty much been set on deciding between two other names for months before we ran across Riley in a book from some friends. He's already got a nickname from his grandfather...Riley Fuzzle (evidently there's a Riley Fuzzle Rd. on the way out to the hunting lease). Probably fairly apt, if he has his dad's Sting-esque fluff of hair at birth.
Feb. 1st, 2007 @ 10:14 am
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So, I've been feeling the need to post for awhile now, it's just been so crazy lately. Pretty much all good stuff, but not much exciting or out of the ordinary, just seasonal programming. Brooke, or should I say, Her Exalted Highness Duchess Brooke the Undefeated of Lower Slaughter, is still doing well, and is definitely showing now. She's psyched about having blown past the point of just looking kinda fat to looking definitively pregnant...her words, not mine, I should most definitely note. Oh, and on that front...the ultrasound results are in, and it's a boy! I, of course, fell prey to the stereotypical ultrasound misreading blunder...you know, "Holy crap, look at the size of his...oh wait, that's his leg." Any way, crazy stuff. I'm...not quite sure what to do with a little boy. I think I need more power tools or something. But not to worry! I'm rapidly amassing a pile of guides and manuals that claim to be able to get both myself and my child through the trials of early childhood alive, if not entirely sane.
We've actually already got a name picked out, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) strider_corinth, if you're reading this, it's not that one...nope, not that one either. I promise to let you all know as soon as my family does, just doesn't feel right otherwise.
Dec. 22nd, 2006 @ 10:09 pm
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So, while I've been enjoying the endless diversions of the Wii, I've been relishing even more this bit of news that I've been hoarding away...ok, I'm going to stop erasing cheesy euphemisms and come right out and tell you that Brooke is pregnant!
( Click to see the ultrasound... )
We're a couple of weeks out of the first trimester, so we're feeling pretty confident about this one. The estimated due date is May 23rd. We might even find out the gender next week! Anyway, too excited and hungry to go on. More later, perhaps.
Nov. 30th, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
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Inspired by vinelander's tale, I shall now regale you with a Wii tale of my own!
I should preface by saying that the haul from my recent birthday consisted mainly of cash earmarked for a Wii purchase, so I had significant hopes for a successful transaction. Never having braved a console launch before, I spent an inordinate amount of time comparing theoretical stock numbers, checking message boards to gauge the prospective plans of others, and generally just obsessing about the whole thing. I found quickly that we had one of the midnight lauch Toys R Us stores not far from us, so strider_corinth and I decided to swing by mid-afternoon on Saturday to check on the line. Looked like about 30-ish folks. A quick word with one of the employees revealed that they had 100 units for launch night, so we decided to forego the safe bet in favor of not sitting in line for 8 to 10 hours.
We returned around 9:30 to find a significantly longer line, and estimated we were in the mid-80s somewhere. Felt pretty good until a manager came by and counted off around 10:15 - we were number 112. Oops. Thankfully, some employees came back around shortly and let us know they actually 168 units in stock, so we were well in the clear. The line moved along pretty well once the hour arrived, and we were in possession and on our way home by 1:30. Got back around 2:00, rabidly re-wired the entertainment center, and dug in. Crashed around 4:30, after the third utterly humiliating round of golf finally broke us.
My impressions thus far:
Wii Sports: Far more than I hoped for from a bundled launch title. Tennis and boxing are gold, and bowling's pretty good, with golf slightly less so and the incomplete-feeling baseball a distant fifth.
Twilight Princess: Haven't spent too much time with it, so no real conclusions yet, but it's definitely pretty! Oh, and beating chickens has never been more fun.
A final note before crashing: strider_corinth's Mii avatar bears an uncanny resemblance to his actual appearance. It kinda creeped me out at first, but it's sort of warm and fuzzy knowing there's a little strider_corinth running around in my console.
Nov. 21st, 2006 @ 03:12 am
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