Friday, September 30, 2005
Today
We have Sadie’s one year checkup and shots at 9:45. Then we’ll probably duck into the office and see if there are any problems in need of attention. Then home, lunch, and I’ll take the truck to go clear out the remaining crap from the cellar and apartment at the old place. The landlord can’t meet me and look at it until tomorrow, maybe tomorrow night, so taking until the last minute worked fine. They’re kind of sad to see us go. Also surprised we’re leaving the ceiling fan light fixture behind, but that was the arrangement. The fixture needed replacing, we wanted the fan, so we sprung for that and they paid the electrician to install it. I haven’t arranged for the van to be hauled away yet, which is fine as long as I can have it out within a couple weeks.
Meanwhile, Slacker Dude is on eviction watch. They just found out his gas got shut off months ago. If he can’t come up with the money to pay up and get it turned back on pronto, he’s out of there. That means on top of his known disgustingness, he’s not had hot water or a stove for months. Yuck. The problem is now he’s coming up on the time when heat won’t be optional, and they can’t have pipes freezing.
Anyway, gotta run…
Happy Birthday
To my nephew Daniel, who turns 17 today. Just over a year ago, we were giving Sadie pep talks about not waiting until the 30th to come out, so she wouldn’t have to share his birthday.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Happy Birthday
To blogger spouse Mrs. Smash, whose birthday I have in my calendar as today, same as Sadie’s, but whose birthday was observed by her husband yesterday. Either way, happy birthday and congratulations on the clean bill of health!
Happy Birthday
To Sadie! Our amazing daughter has been with us now for a year that has passed like nothing. She surprises and delights us daily.
Here’s her introduction from a year ago, or simply look at last September, of which that’s the top post, preceded by others from the hospital leading up to the eviction.
I haven’t been keeping up on milestones lately. On Monday she was babysat for the first time. While we had the ultrasound, she stayed with her grandmother and great-grandmother, where she had a blast and was not bothered at all by our leaving. We finally got around to having her brush her teeth. She seemed to wonder what took us so long, and knew exactly what the brush was for, holding still and opening wide for her mother to brush, and doing a surprisingly good job once she took over. I don’t know if I mentioned she learned how to climb stairs. She’s also managed to get down some successfully, thought it’s still rough. She climbs onto and off of the couch herself, and is good enough that we don’t even get that alarmed seeing her do it. I forget what else is new.
Well, besides that she took to sleeping in her own room as if we were long overdue. She’s not so sure about the big tub, though initially she thought it was cool. She’s funny when she has little temper tantrums and issues forth a string of syllables nothing like anything she would normally say. She loves Burger King chicken fries, which are surprisingly spicy. She loves sweet & sour sauce even more, but where it got on her face, her skin turned red temporarily. Deb says she’s my daughter, with the sauce and ketchup thing. She even loves yellow mustard.
Here’s a series of pictures as she has grown:
I’ll try to get and post some newer pictures soon, maybe some birthday ones. What a year!
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Here and not here, back but not back.
I’m on Jay’s computer, for just long enough to look around the blogs a bit and write this. Sadie’s napping so I’m indulging in a bit of online speedreading. Makes a nice break from trying to find places to put all of our various belongings.
Nothing much new here, really, from where I sit. The pregnancy is going swimmingly so far, with baby pronounced “fabulous,” my bp so normal that she took it twice because she didn’t believe it, and a weight gain so far of nothing. My energy level is back up a bit just in time to put the new place together, and with my computer still without a home it’s been really easy to stay offline even with the DSL back.
And you know what? It’ll probably stay that way.
I’ll set the computer back up, sure. But I have no intention of going back to blogging more than very occasionally, if at all, once that happens.
I discovered something really wild and strange in this period of disconnection: I like my offline life. Better than my online life. And I have a sneaking suspicion that my sudden and glorious blood pressure control owes more than a little to playing with Sadie instead of reading yet another bloggy argument based on [insert insane premise of your choice]. An hour of browsing, I’ve found, makes me pissy and mean all day. It reminds me, actually, of the way I felt when I’d worked retail too long.
Blogging has been very, very good to me. I just don’t want to do it anymore. So I’m not going to.
If I change my mind, you’ll be the first to know.
DeLay Indicted
Deb just caught a breaking news notice on TV saying that DeLay had been indicted.
Update:
Seven minutes later, he’s been removed as majority leader. Heh.
Your Daily Sadie
One year ago today, Sadie put on her last ultrasound show for us. It was a doozy. She’d been beating the crap out of the placenta, was getting low on fluid, and so Lori the ultrasound tech sent us for monitoring upstairs. Then they sent us to the hospital with the fateful command not to eat lunch on the way. The hospital did some monitoring and admitted us to a delivery room.
Sadie proceeded to be stubborn. It was fun.
On the 29th, she was clearly not coming out the traditional way, but had trashed the place enough to get herself evicted. This was the first picture I took. She was getting her temperature taken after we moved from the operating room to the initial recovery room.
Yep, it’ll be a year tomorrow. Time flies! And we’ve certainly been having fun. I think that’s one part nobody tells you about; how much fun they are, especially at certain ages.
The “daily Sadie” thing has to end sometime. A year seems logical. No doubt there will still be regular pictures posted, since I am mad about taking them, though we’ve slacked lately. And Deb’s computer remains not setup, making it hard to download them off the camera.
I have no idea what I’ll do with the next one, but I’ll try to avoid the typical “second one gets far fewer pictures taken” syndrome. Daily Valerie just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Plus she’ll have the distinction that Sadie will probably worm her way into half the pictures of her sister, so it’ll pictures of them more than her. We’ll see.
At least this time we shouldn’t end up spending an extra day in the hospital, as the eviction will be planned ahead. The peri says she looks “fabulous” based on the first ultrasound. No quibbles as with Sadie, who had a measurement that was off that they ended up watching closely. It even looked for a while like she would need to be ultrasounded after she was born, to check on the innards. We also learned from the peri, who had examined the hospital chart, that it was strictly about low fluid, and there was never preeclampsia. Nobody ever told us that definitively.
Anyway… look for plenty of pictures, certainly, but not the predictable, daily pictures after her birthday tomorrow.
Happy Birthday
To blogger Victor of Publius & Co.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Happy Birthday
To blogger Bruce of mASS BACKWARDS, who says it was very happy.
Greetings Gilmore Googlers and Fellow Fans
Rory Gilmore sex boat
Kind of cool to have them mentioning the blogosphere on the show, eh?
While you’re here, feel free to have a look around. Click the top title for the current main page, or click a category on the left. I recommend clicking baby pictures, personally, but your mileage may vary.
About Time
We now have everything moved out of the apartment proper that is going to the new place, and we have the old place fully cleaned. As in cleaned to the point where a tenant could move in and think that the landlord had done a decent job cleaning the place while it was empty.
All that remains in the apartment is stuff going to charity or the office, and I’ll pull that out tomorrow. There’s also plenty of stuff of ours in the cellar; perhaps more than a truckload, even given that the shelf units break down to small parts. Finally, there’s the van. It still needs to be cleaned out and I need to have it hauled away. I’ll try to line that up tomorrow, too.
But essentially we’re done. Yay! I’ll probably see the landlord tomorrow or Thursday to get my deposit back. If I remember it, I’ll bring the camera and get some “after” pictures of the empty apartment.
Your Daily Sadie
Houston, We Have DSL
Woohoo! I am sitting at my computer in my new home office, on DSL. It’s crudely arranged, but it’s a start.
See, there are 3 phone jacks. Initially only one worked. Last night I made the wall jack in the kitchen work by taking the plate off and pressing where the wires each connect. Magic. I still should wire a line into the office, but at least the kitchen is the next room.
There’s a phone line strung so we have to duck under it to get into the bathroom. It hooks to the DSL modem, sitting on a rolling cart beside the office door. A network cable runs into the office, across the floor to the middle of the room, where the computer sits up on a 2 drawer file cabinet, and plugs into a router there. Then the router has a cable to the computer.
The office also turned out to have the least power outlets of any room. One thing about the place is the outlets are ample and reasonably modern. There are some ancient, ungrounded outlets, but those are all unpowered, obsolete, relics. There is no outlet anywhere near my desk, so the office will forever have an extension cord running across the floor.
This will get even more interesting as Deb’s computer will, when it’s eventually set back up, be in a different room.
I’m quite pleased with my predictive powers. This was the first day for which I had not pre-posted a Sadie picture. DSL was activated last night, and I got back on this morning. I knew they wouldn’t take all the way until the 29th and called the actual timing perfectly.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Yay!
Verizon tells me DSL is now active at the new apartment. As expected, well before the target date of the 29th. Woohoo!
Now I just have to cope with the fact the one working phone jack is nowhere near the computers, and the fact that Deb needs a desk because we used hers as a childproof TV stand, and that sort of thing.
My plan is to rig us up for wireless and not have network cables everywhere. I just have to, you know, order the stuff required to do that.
Carnival of Computing
I was remiss in not linking the first edition of Carnival of Computing, after I provided Andrew some advice on founding such a thing. I thought is was a great idea.
This whole being offline thing is no fun. The whole moving thing just makes it worse.
Little Sister
Rest In Peace Don Adams
I’m sad to see the news that Don Adams has died. I loved Get Smart when I was a kid.
Carnival of the Capitalists Delayed
Carnival of the Capitalists will be late this week. It may be at the scheduled host, or may not. The folks who do the blogging weren’t aware that the boss had signed the blog up for hosting six months prior. If it’s not there, I’ll find a replacement and hope to have it published in the next day or so.
Stay tuned…
Your Daily Sadie
Happy Birthday
To blogger Jay Manifold.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Your Daily Sadie
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Sneaking In A Post
I am at the office to drop off a load of stuff from the old apartment, while Deb, “helped” by Sadie, does some cleaning there. I got the “need to eat something” shakes as I arrived here, so I sat down and had a snack. Can’t see why I needed to, but hey. I’ll go back shortly and load up stuff to go home with us, leaving a load or two to go to be utterly done.
The target is to be able to meet the landlord there Tuesday to have them look at it and give me the deposit back. Maybe it’ll be Wednesday; we’re pretty beat and we have the excitement of the big “don’t be shy, show us your genitals” ultrasound Monday morning.
We have my office almost fully unpacked and organized. Ditto the living room and kitchen, though we still have kitchen stuff to lug there from the old place. The bedroom needs to be properly setup. We need more small furniture and sundries, which is going to take a series of shopping trips.
By moving we ditched the low water pressure problem. Indeed, it’s almost too strong. However, the water is the heaviest with chlorine of any tap water I have ever encountered. It also got salty and gross tasting the the night before last and yesterday morning, enough that a sip of it nearly made me barf, and I couldn’t drink coffee made with it. We ended up buying a couple gallons of water.
Anyway, gotta go. More sometime…
Your Daily Sadie
Friday, September 23, 2005
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We’re Alive
And oh, the posts waiting to be written…
We’re essentially moved, and have slept in the new place the past two nights. Yay! I was going to note that the only bad thing about the place so far was the fact that only one of the three phone jacks is live, but I think I’ve discovered a couple other things. With a computer in the office and the one in the living room, DSL will be made… interesting… by the fact that the live jack is in the master bedroom. The one in the kitchen looks like it ought to be fine. The one in the living room looks like it’s old enough to be dead. I’ll have to do some wiring, presumably.
I thought I was going to kill myself moving. I figure we probably have 1500 books. Nuff said. Well, except I crunched myself moving the dryer out of the old place.
Anyway, thought I’d pop in with a little post to update you. Everything else lately has been pre-posted for automatic publication.
Your Daily Sadie
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Your Daily Sadie
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Your Daily Sadie
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Happy Birthday
To blogger and great Munuvian leader Pixy Misa.
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