Yeah,  I’ve gotten pretty bad at updating this little site.  One must wonder why I continue to run it.

I suppose it would be the ego.  Yes.  Definitely the ego.

So what’s been happening lately?  Work.  Lots and lots of work.  So much so that as soon as the day is done I pretty much don’t really want to see a keyboard.  Mice are ok.  Mice just point at things.  They don’t involve trying to put together a cohesive sentence, much less spell.

Outside of work?   Well, after a prolonged struggle that started with the end of my relationship with the Home Depot and ended with two stripped bolts we’ve installed an over-the-range microwave, which marks the first major upgrade in our microwaving capabilities in over six years.

It’s actually pretty sweet.

And the munchkin?  Every day she babbles a way, throwing in a word or two here and there.  She’s on the verge of walking on her own.  Every once in a while we convince her to take a few steps holding onto only one hand.

Oh.  And we got a bike seat for her.  It’s awesome.  It actually sits in front of you.  Today we biked all the way down the street.  Micah’s comment?  “Whee!”

So that’s life.  Tomorrow’s another day.

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Now the scale of the flooding in Janesville is no where near the scale of what has happened in Iowa, but the images and movies are still pretty compelling:

Flooding

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No, we’re not floating away.  Our home is located up the hill, so unless you see a guy constructing an Ark in the Midwest and gathering animals two-by-two, I don’t think we have a lot to worry about.

Janesville as a town, however, is experiencing what professionals call a Freaking Deluge.  This video was taken at the bridge downtown.  It’s hard to see, but there’s about two feet of free space between the surface of the water and the bridge itself.

As a further clarification, it’s not normally that close.

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Today we have some new videos.  All of these were taken during our recent trip down South.

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I haven’t posted anything of a political nature at all recently.   Mostly it’s a lack of time and a sense of ennui that prevented me from doing so.

But last night the nominating process for the Democrats finally wrapped up with Obama surpassing the (new) magic number of delegates needed. 

Of course, Hillary hasn’t actually conceded yet.   Or really suspended her campaign.  Granted, her powerful surrogates are making noise about VP slots on the ticket (bad idea) and talking reconciliation, but no final definitive word that she wouldn’t try something on the floor of the convention.

Hurrah. 

Sadly, I wouldn’t put it past her to come up with some sort of reason not to really officially say that the race is over up until the convention. 

Got to love it.

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It’s been a small eternity since I’ve written anything new on this blog.  And of course, as I normally do when I’ve let the blog run fallow for a while, I decide that the first post will be all about how I need to maintain this that or the other on my website.

This ensures that casual readers never really become devoted to the blog.  Saves me the effort of coming up with interesting things to talk about, or (more realistically) being interesting in general.

So I’ve been having problems with the site for a while now.  I think it’s time for me to do a fresh installation.  I’ve found that eventually with most pieces of software or operating systems, eventually you just need to reinstall in order to work out the bugs.  So that will probably occupy my time for the next few evenings.

The things I do to have fun.

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Micah Lynn: Th…

The First Year

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This past Thursday AM’s mother came by the house as she customarily does to spend her day baby-sitting her granddaughter.

Sometime midmorning I took a break from my work to wander out to the living room where she and Micah were playing.  She looked up at me from where she and Micah had been playing on the floor and said, “So how do you like Micah’s first tooth?”

“Her what?”

“She’s got a tooth.”

Totally blew me away.  Even AM hadn’t noticed.  We spent the next two days trying to sneek our fingers into our daughter’s mouth to get a glimpse or a feel for it.   My daughter was spectacularly uncooperative.

In the end we determined that AM’s mother was right:  Micah does have her first tooth.  Mostly.  I don’t think it’s quite errupted all the way just yet, but you can definitely feel it if Micah’s cooperating.

I have to tell you that this new development comes as a great relief to me.  My coworker’s child (who was born a week prior to Micah) has three teeth I think.  And we’ve kept meeting people who have children around Micah’s age whose teeth started coming in at like eight months.  Or nine.  Or whatever.

It’s silly, I know.  Teeth come in when they come in.  I’ve met people whose children hadn’t popped out their first tooth until sixteen months or later.

But still…I find myself becoming slightly competitive when I evaluate other people’s children.

After all, when you have perfection personified living under your roof eating cheerios every day, you’ve got to make sure that she stays ultimately perfect.

Ok, I’ll stop being ridiculous.

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