This past Friday we experienced a reorganization and I find myself now reporting to two bosses. Management, of course, maintains her position with her span of control expanding slightly while I find myself reporting to a slightly more demanding superior.
Gabriella Ann Elwood was born Friday, December 29th, weighing in at 8 lbs 15 oz and stretching herself out to a lanky 21 inches. My former employers, Mom and Pop LLC, are hedging her entry into the basketball marketplace. Management remains convinced that competitive shopping is in her future. Myself, I’m hoping she rolls her own Linux kernel by three. Anyway you look at it, she is well loved.
With my Best of 2006 post I tried to be slick and create an unordered list all fancied up with some CSS, well, that didn’t work out so well. Back to table layout. *sigh*
My review frequency over at Candied Pop has been spotty at best what with the baby on my mind and subsequent inability to focus on anything long enough to form coherent sentences. Though I still have a stack of new releases to listen to, with three really standing out as candidates for this list, here are my top twelve in no particular order…
…and there you have it.
Tonight I was fairly bored, especially while we watched the season finale of Dexter–the ending felt too rushed–so I was looking around for a little something to keep me occupied and maybe trick out my desktop. Enter Conky, a nifty lightweight system monitor application. After scanning this thread and this one for inspiration I ended up with the following setup.
Here’s my .conkyrc.
…is for Gabriella to come.
Still. Waiting.
Before the Internet the local reference librarian is where I would often turn for help but somethings are too awkward to ask.
Could you help me locate some information on the External Os?
External?
Os.
Ox?
Os, Oscar-Sam, Os.
Hmmm. Sam, Oscar. Have you tried Biographies?
Possibly, I should have taken more science classes in my youth rather than loading up on Art and Music while backfilling my schedule with Comparative Literature. However, I am getting a crash course in female reproductive anatomy that goes beyond the highlights offered in the pages of Stuff and Maxim. In this case I learned that they cervix is not really an opening but rather a tube with two separate openings referred to as the Internal and External Os. News to me.
Moving right along to the section filed under TMI; Management is progressing along with contractions becoming more regular and frequent The external is at 2 cm but the doctor could not gauge the internal because, as another doctor earlier in the pregnancy so eloquently put it, “Your cervix is like the Holland Tunnel. No matter how much you might wish otherwise it is still a long way to the other end.” Now that I know how the cervix is constructed that comment makes much more sense.
Anyways, long story short: we continue to wait.
