Madeleine on her elephant

One of the things that I've noticed on babies (meaning Madeleine, as you never really notice these things except with your very own) after noticing everything else, is that they have perfectly clear eyes where the whites have no veins, no redness, no imperfections of any...

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Look, we have teeth!

If you've read my last blurb on Madeleine's eyes, you can imagine what I could say about teeth. I'll just leave it at that she's getting lots of them now. After only having two lower teeth for a while, a seemingly whole mouthful are sprouting. (I'll just add, when...

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Triangle Man

That's the title of a TMBG song that Ann hates and that I love for some reason. I think they were the second band (after the Beetles) that I thought, "wow, you can sing about something other than sappy syrupy dribble?"). Anyway, rather than distract myself and everyone from the focus of this blog, which is our little girl and our family, I decided...

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Random updates

Nuptuals : Mike and Soo are engaged. Allen and Vivian are engaged. Andrew and Cindy are engaged. My brother and Mami have set a date. And I'm so looking forward to checking out the food at Matt and Rebecca's wedding so I hope we get invited. Employment : Uh, um, uh, I'm switching jobs (again). This is my last week at Barclays. Starting at BofA next...

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Book o' the month : A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson is really funny to listen to... I have the audio book now and given my nature loving tendencies, his blurbs on bear attacks is tempering my love of the wild a little, but with lots of laughs....

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When do you have enough computers?

Let me do an inventory:1) 1998/1998 powermac g4 500 mhz --> main server, always on2) 2004 powerbook 12" g4 1.33 mhz --> only laptop, living room computer3) 2002(?) imac g4 833 mhz --> kitchen computer4) 2005 mac mini --> iTunes server and dvd ripper5) 2004 amd pc --> dual book windows/linux (corp remote access)Is there room for more? ...

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Sleeping with the Devil

Interesting story about the house of Saud and our country's ties to it. Listening to the audio book version. Only 1 hour into it and it's very disturbing. International politics and world affairs eye opener... kinda like Fast Food Nation did for my notion of McDonalds....

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