So, Craig's birthday was Wednesday, and I took the day off to spend with him. Scott's birthday was Thursday, and he took the day to spend with Craig, and then Friday as well to have a long weekend at home with his parents ( Read more... )

Cleared the 29 week appointment today, and the only thing that I think is outside expected norms is slightly higher fundal height measurements wrt to charts. I'm not freaking out (really! :) ), but I was curious to see how this measurement has gone with anyone willing to share. It sounds like a pretty vague sort of tracking to me, so things ( Read more... )

Has anyone reading this blog read House of Leaves? There seems to be a large group of people who would highly recommend it and yet a not insignificant number of people who think it's rough to read and not worth the effort ( Read more... )

( Introspective thoughts on my father )

( This one is an interesting idea, since he's almost a ghost socially. :) )

AMD is selling the DTV division to Broadcom, a company whose main products are in DTV space. This seems like a good thing for our business unit, and I hope that it's a good fit for us going forward - better than AMD was for DTV ( Read more... )

So, I got called this morning to let me know that I passed the glucose screening (yay!), but that my iron is low (boo!). She recommended that I eat more iron-rich foods and eat a bowl of Total cereal every day. (I didn't get numbers for how low or anything, but I may have Craig call back to find out a little more. I'm not beat all the time or ( Read more... )

OK, this is cute and funny in a geek kind of way. It's a rap by the folks at CERN about what the Hadron Collider does, since it's scheduled to begin functioning on September 10th. :) Check it out, y'all!

Large Nerd Collider

Last year, my church began working with a group I hadn't heard of called "Circles of Opportunity". They work with the above mentioned BCOC to try to help determined people below the poverty line get above it through community support. It sounded like a neat organization, but they meet on Tuesday nights at 6:30, which means I both have to leave ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, Berta! :) I look for many happy returns, right down the road from us.

I'll try to have some orange juice and chocolate today in your honor. ;)