I haven’t been inspired lately, as the fact that I haven’t posted in a month. Work has been going pretty well. I’m making a little progress on some projects that have been kinda shifting around on the back of the stove while other people do their thing for them. It’s sometimes frustrating not knowing where my projects sit on other people’s lists of priorities when I’m depending on them for something to get move mine forward. I’ve not had great luck with product tech support lately. One company took about 2 months to provide instructions for migrating their product from the Linux version to Windows. Not that I’m a big fan of moving things to Windows, but when I’ve made it clear to them that the Linux hardware we’re running is on its last legs and requires daily defibrillation, you’d think they could turn something like that around faster.
On the home front, Warren has certainly changed noticeably lately. He’s interacting a lot more with his environment and enjoys grabbing things hanging above him when he’s on his play mat. He’s also much happier (unless of course his drawers are damp/dirty, in which case he gets very grumpy … not that I blame him). Laura is definitely a girl … and a bit of a girly girl at that. Namely, she doesn’t like getting dirty. She’s also taken to putting diapers on her stuffed animals and changing them. I’m sure part of it is imitating what she sees mommy and daddy doing, but I can’t help but think that it’s the whole natural tendency to nurture kicking in as well. Oh yes, and in the past few days she’s started cuddling things because they’re “sad”. Tonight in the bathtub it was the plastic cups that we use to rinse her hair with. Quite amusing to say the least. Liz is doing very well. She’s an awesome wife and mother … I can’t say that enough of course. I do wish she had more friends in the area to get together with so she could relax more. She’s going to coffee with friends from church on a fairly regular basis so that’s helping I think.
This past weekend we went and visited my great aunt Rosie. She was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and isn’t expected to be with us much longer. She’s currently in a nursing home. I forgot how much of a downer those places can be. This one seemed particularly that way as it was very utilitarian/institutional? Not that I’ve been in a lot, because I haven’t. But it definitely doesn’t have a feeling of a “home” … it kinda reminded me of a school or a prison. Definitely not much happiness there (though I imagine it’s very hard to find in a place like that). Anyway, I’m glad we went to visit. She may or may not remember the kids. The kids certainly won’t remember her. But no regrets.
Two weeks ago we visited friends in Appleton in their new house. It was nice to see them again. They seem happy in their new place and finally married. Yay! It was a bit hard to plan things around kids and delivery of appliances (no thanks to delivery guys who didn’t call ahead of time). I think our next visit will be a little easier to deal with now that we have an idea how we can situate the little ones.
Three weeks ago we had a photo session with my aunt Michelle. She enjoys doing professional-grade photography as a hobby, not that she’ll necessarily admit she’s professional grade. The photos turned out really nice. I see some of them printed and framed in our future. 
Well, I best get to bed … I made the mistake of putting Warren in his bed rather than a chair to snooze earlier tonight … and he’s still out. This means a middle-of-the-night feeding on my part is very likely. On the plus side, tomorrow’s the last day of work for me this week (vacation + mandatory furlough day). Hopefully I’ll be a little better about posting again… we shall see I guess.
