Genji’s Butler

One of the interesting things about expecting a child is watching the random ways in which Candice’s belly moves when Butterfly kicks her. It’s sort of cool to all of a sudden see it move to the left or right because someone has decided that particular side is offensive and really needs to be kicked, punched, headbutted, or whatever. It also leads to a lot of “Ow!” being heard around the house as Butterfly decides to pummel her surroundings. I’m sure that all of the mothers (and moms to be) in the audience feel Candice’s pain. From my side though- the best I can do is be understanding and try not to shoot diet pepsi out my nose when Candice makes a particularly funny facial expression due to these prenatal antics. Also, I’ve noticed that Butterfly likes to change where she sits regularly. Sometimes Candice won’t look as pregnant as she is, but 20 minutes later when Butterfly has moved it looks like she’s MUCH further along; it can disturbing to see happen.

Expectant Fathers! Another fun game is to take a depth gauge and measure the depth of her belly button as the pregnancy progresses. She’ll love it!

First a great big thanks to my parents, who had a portable air conditioner sent to us this week, right before the heatwave hit here in SoCal. It arrived just in time and has been able to keep our living room about 12 degrees cooler than the ambient temperature during the heat of the day. This has made things immeasurably more bearable. Even the cats, who’d rather be outside unless it’s time to sleep, stay around the air conditioner. I’ve only lived here for 8 years or so and this is the most humid I’ve ever felt it– it’s made it really sticky and unpleasant… not so bad that I feel like I’m breathing water, but still bad.

Candice’s begun writing about being pregnant over on her blog: Good And Fine. If you want to keep up with her feelings and experiences I encourage you to head over there and take a gander. As the due date approaches my feelings and worries about parenthood will start to get more concrete so this blog will start to get a little less random- I’ll try to tag appropriately so those who aren’t interested can skip it.

It’s now the beginning of the third trimester- I don’t know where the second went it flew by so quickly! From the outside it seems like things are a little rougher; the heat was really starting to take its toll and she’s more uncomfortable by the day. From what I hear this is to be expected but still it sucks. I am starting to really feel the pressure to make progress faster in getting the baby’s room ready- but it’s so hot that I can’t really work on it except at night. I did get some stuff put up into the attic, though, and that was a real accomplishment. Our friend Rose has been down helping us get ready; I’ve really appreciated her help and am sure that I’m going to need more of it.

At work we finished off the latest sprint prior – we’re now about halfway through the current release and my major feature has been completed. I’m going to be rolling over to some simpler data acquisition tasks and minor feature tweaks- it should be a nice break from really spending all day in the profiler trying to get a 2% reduction in the amount of time spent on a method – I don’t mind that but it’s nice to have a change. Maybe I can get away from seeing lock sequencing problems in my dreams.

We had dinner with my old boss and his girlfriend tonight. They drove down from LA to say hi and chat with me about things that they need to do to her (his GF’s) website to allow it to get better search results. I was able to give a few pointers but nothing really earth shattering. I guess it was better than nothing for them, though.