When you are going to have a baby every person always says the same thing, you will no longer get any sleep. Perhaps that is true for most people, but I’m getting my normal amount of sleep. When I say that I don’t mean that I am ignoring the baby or making my wife handle all of the baby’s crying and fussing. I say that because I already average 5 or 6 hours of sleep anyway. Thanks to college and my well, ingrained gaming habits.
I might go to bed about 9:30 or 10 but I’m usually awake reading or watching tv until nearly midnight because I have never been able to fall asleep when I want to. Usually she needs one of her nightly feedings during that window. Since I’m up, no problem.
When I have finally fallen asleep, I rarely actually stay asleep. In fact I rarely even dream (or if I do, I rarely remember what it was I dream about). So when she wakes up at 2:30 or 3am, its not really a big deal. Now I get up and do something instead of rolling over and trying to go back to sleep.
Then she wakes up between 5:30 and 6:30 … yea, that’s when I get up for work anyway (and on the weekends, that’s usually one of those times that I randomly wake up – similar to the 3am window). So when people tell me that I won’t be getting sleep anymore, it’s mildly humorous because I’m somewhat of a freaking insomniac.
We are entering our second week with the kid and I still do not feel any more exhausted then I have every morning going all the way back before college.
If you have been following along at home then you know that we are expecting. She (it’s a girl) was due April 3rd and here it is April 9th and she still doesn’t seem like she’s ready to come out. We are starting to look at the possibility to induce labor.
I had to do the Cable Company dance again. I had to cancel one and switch to the other again in order to receive the better deal. I will, most likely, have to do this again in two years because our “deal” will have expired and the bill will spike up another $30-40. It’s ridiculous that I have to do this dance every other year. I don’t understand why cable companies can’t be more like cell phone companies, every two years renew your contract at a discounted rate.
Issue 98: March 14th is the almighty Pi Day (3.14), I have acknowledged this day since high school trigonometry (Thanks Mr. Urban). How did you celebrate Pi Day? Sadly I had to work today, but I think a Cheesecake (I know, it says cake, but it looks like a pie) this evening. Be that as it may, check out these awesome headlines in the MMO world lately.
Back in the day, around 1997 – 1998, I picked up a book called “Teach Yourself HTML4 in 24 Hours”. It was my first glimpse into the world of web development. Thanks to SamsNet Publishing, I read that book cover to cover and referenced is so much the cover literally came off. CSS was still in its early stages and JavaScript was hated by everyone. Creating dynamic content was a test in perseverance and willpower. If I wanted a cool menu system, and I didn’t want to write it myself, I had to find something I liked on places like http://www.dynamicdrive.com or research how to do it using DHTML (which I don’t think even exists anymore).