Happy Birthday to boyo! One week old today. Very tiring. 24 hour labour, narrowly avoided Ceasarian, suctioned lungs, and five days in the hospital because of his dropped weight. Avg. sleep while in hospital: 2-3 hours/night. I have a newfound loathing of nurses. We probably had 2 awesome ones, 1 competent one, and a whole host of lousy incompetent ( Read more... )

In reply to a recently-posted question from Shara_F, baby is still chilling in the most comfortable lounge on earth. He gets excited and kicky when wife eats. I jab her belly when and where I see him kick. She punches my head when I jab her belly. It has all the makings of a wonderfully entertaining dysfunctional family sitcom. I told her today ( Read more... )

Busted my hump like an overdosed-on-ecstasy kangaroo [or imagine whatever energetic animal abusing whatever stimulant that suits yer preference] to get a last-body-chapter draft to the boss by last Thursday in hopes of he using Friday to request a diss. defense, the last possible day to do so for yerstruly to squeak in a defense this term. Learned ( Read more... )

Cor, blimey! This compyuta is brilliant! Oi, luv, hand me the Peek Frean bikkies and a drop of tay, will ya luv ( Read more... )

I have a testosterone-rich student who, when he has a question, bellows out, "Sir!". After the 8th or 9th "Sir!" today, he got thoughtful. He bellowed, "Have you ever been called 'Sir' before, Sir? Does anyone else call you 'Sir'?". I said, "Outside of here? Who else *would* call me 'Sir'?". "Well," he contemplatively bellowed, "You look too young ( Read more... )

Have just witnessed a 2-cruiser, 2-SUV Hammer 5-0 takedown of swf on U.James. Acknowledged the white trash implications of turning it into a spectator event, decided not to sing out the theme song to "Cops," narrowly decided against standing on a toppled mailbox for a better view, and went back inside the house. Shamed to admit that first eager ( Read more... )

Having just chatted with Ms. Wife about one of _Fares's posted topics over some tasty afternoon soup, I arrive with the following sagely information. Ms. Wife had recently taken a course for work and said that the only thing she learned for her $800+ tuition was that one must be careful about what one says about one's co-workers when said co- ( Read more... )

You Hamilton ex-pats missed a rock-solid shindig last night for Mt._M's transAtlantic send-off. The unwavering flow of guests was a shining testament to the fact that she is deeply adored by the masses. The music was righteous, the snacks were tasty, and the company was delectable (if I do say so myself). Though I was pulled away early by my gentle ( Read more... )

Dragged my raggedy-ass, semi-lifeless bag of bones through an aikido test on Tuesday night and won the right to sport the dashing and elusive brown belt. It goes ever so nicely with my eyes. Somebody spring a surprise attack on me tonight and we'll see how I do. (I prefer front strike, side strike, behind-the-back-both-wrists-grasp #1 or #2, and ( Read more... )

Incontrovertible evidence that I am stressed: burning need for candy. One would think that the mutiple demands on my brain these days would drive me to drink, but that usually only happens when stress is combined with hard-boiled detective fiction, and I'm currently abstaining from those books these days. So last night made an 8:30 run to the ( Read more... )