Why doesn’t he write any more?

Sorry about the lack of updating. It’s been a pretty busy couple of weeks. I had forgotten how much time having a newborn takes up, even if you’re just providing ancillary support.

I’ve also been kind of busy with work. I’ve lost exact count, but between the day job and my side projects, I’ve got like 10 or 11 site redesigns/overhauls going on or pending at the moment. And then there’s the whole eating/bathing/sleeping thing. As if I’ve got time for that.

I have managed to squeeze in some time for normalcy, or at least what passes for normalcy around here. The Boy had I have begun practicing for tee-ball, although we still haven’t received any sort of acknowledgement that our registration has been processed. I predict there will be some small crisis about this when the season starts.

The Girl is continuing to be as cute as can be. Although she’s started to mix a little more awake time in to her daily routine, the vast majority of her time is still spent happily zonked out.

She’s started to sleep through the night on a fairly consistent basis, something that her mother and I are extremely excited about. We had a lot of trouble with The Boy sleeping at night early on, and so far things have gone much more smoothly this time around.

The Wife has adapted to the stay-at-home life quite nicely. In fact, she’s pretty much just going with the “just rolled out of bed” look 24 hours a day now. I can’t blame her though. If I were going to be hanging around the house all day, I probably wouldn’t bother to do my hair or make-up either.

Arguments for proof-reading

• In Texas, new cars are given temporary paper plates and somebody at the dealership pencils in the expiration date. The other day, The Wife and I saw a Mazda that some genius had given an expiration date of “2/30”. (Sadly, no pic though.)
• The Boy went to a birthday party at an inflatable fun zone place, and the invitation seemed to contain some contradictory statements.
• The sanitation department switched our recycling day to Wednesdays and left this notice on the door. Apparently, “city” is one of those words you must capitalize at all times.
• I recently rediscovered an old picture of a grammatically challenged breaking news notice from when we lived in Denver.
• I’m not even going to comment on this one.

Fries at the bottom of the bag

• The Boy made something at school that they’re calling a “bear cave”. I’ll let you decide if that’s a fair interpretation or not. 
• In news that should shock no one, the fourth and fifth Death Wish movies weren’t any better than the first three in the series.
• Since you people seem to get all worked up about conferences and such, I’m went to a day-thing in Houston last week. It wasn’t crazy exciting, but I got to hear some interesting speakers and get exposed to some different opinions on stuff.
• I’ve finally gotten into the full swing of campaign season now that some of the chaff has been separated from the wheat. It was just hard to watch debates when we had to pretend that people like Duncan Hunter and Dennis Kucinich were viable presidential candidates.
• As detailed in the comments section here, I may have purchased black market Girl Scout Cookies. Hopefully my purchase of Tagalongs isn’t funding terrorist activities.
• For those of you with nothing better to do, the January 2008 photo gallery is now complete.