I’ve been pretty quiet on this site for the last few weeks – primarily because the demands on my time by my day job have been through the roof. I’ve been working 7 days a week, and evenings for a while now, on the order of 80 hours a week or so. Its the curse of software development – when the product is about to release, everyone is on deck, all the time. I was emailing our team in Japan at 11:30PM on a Friday night, when I would normally have been half passed out watching the end of an episode of Alton Brown. At any rate, I can see the light – we release soon, so hopefully I’ll be able to take a little bit of a break in the near future.
In the meantime, things like seeing this little daughter of mine each day keep me moving forward (photo taken this morning).
I just thought I’d send out a few random thoughts on what’s happening here – In a nutshell:
- Kids are well (The doctor successfully removed the surgical tube from little miss R.’s tear duct – good news)
- We are well
- Dogs are pretty well (Sparticus has hayfever, I kid you not)
- Weather has been awesome to variable. Seasonal depression is in a land far away this year. So far.
Quotable Jonah
Jonah has been increasingly quotable in the last few weeks – I’ve been trying to capture a few of the interchanges here and there, so here are the highlights.
On entering Starbucks, Jonah stopped at the door, looked through the glass, and said:
“This is where Aunt KC lives! Is she here?”
Me: “No, she’s not here. Not today.”
“Oh. She must be sleeping.”
On trying to explain that Great Grandma has passed away, and that no, she won’t be coming to visit, Jonah’s questions were:
“Did she die?”
“Yes, she died.”
“Was she squished?”
On one of his cousins that he speaks of often:
“Mom, remember Molly?”
“Yes, what about her?”
“Yeah. She’s a Great girl.”
On explaining the topology of a cranium:
“Jonah, do you have a forehead?”
J:”No…I have a sixhead. Six heads. One six head.”
On the theory of why my head hurts:
“Mom, my head hurts.”
“Why?”
“Because I have yucky stuff in it.”
[This last one could very easily have been me. Can't remember right now - things are a bit on the blurry side.]
More soon. Stay tuned. In the mean time, check out AlmostFit — I’ve got a few new posts over there. Trying to keep the fires burning, and get some of them put out.