Thanksgiving in Missouri

We’re all just back from Republic, Missouri, where we spent Jacob’s first Thanksgiving at the home of his great-grandparents and great-aunt. Highlights of the trip: a visit to the original Bass Pro Shop in Springfield, a tour of the home in Mansfield where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote all of the Little House books, [...]

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San Francisco

This week I’ve been working from San Francisco, and Leann and Jacob made the trip out with me. This was a wonderful surprise trip for us, and we’ve had the opportunity to visit with family and a number of friends we probably won’t get to see when we’re here again for Christmas. I [...]

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Baptism

On August 10, Jacob was baptized at our church here in Cambridge. Our pastor, Rick, remarked that at only three weeks of age Jacob was one of the youngest children he had baptized in some time (we did it then to coincide with Leann’s parents’ visit). But of course, we could have waited [...]

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A few changes, and grandparent pictures

As promised, the gallery of photos of Jacob is now a sidebar.  Right over there.  To the right.  No, a little down, under my pic – yes, there.  Seriously, people, if it were a snake it’d bite you.*
I’ve also added another sidebar with shared items from Google.  Frequently – very frequently, in fact – I [...]

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Gallery

Don’t worry; you’ll see plenty more pictures of Jacob here, but for those who can’t wait for me to get my act together and post them, I’ve set up a web gallery of pictures. Currently it doesn’t contain much more than what I’ve already put online; note, however, the ’subscribe’ option, which you can [...]

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Still haven’t seen WALL-E

The planned to-do list for last Friday was as follows:
1. Work
2. Go buy video camera to capture birth and assorted first life moments of child.
3. Get out of the heat and enjoy one last trip to a movie theater with my wife (for a while, anyway) by watching WALL-E.
Of course, as you’re by now aware, [...]

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Working From Home

I was fortunate:  work slowed down enough just before Jacob was born that I’ve gotten to spend this week working from home.  Hard to imagine a better way to work than this:

(Of course, I do get distracted… oh well – back to work.)

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Nothing to Worry About

When I was in high school, my favorite TV show was Mad About You (note:  comment section below available for scorn and ridicule).  As was common practice in the mid-90s, its star, Paul Reiser, wrote a book (see also:  Seinlanguage).  Two books, in fact – Couplehood (funny stuff about dating and marriage) and then Babyhood [...]

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