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Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, it’s windy!

December 23

Went out for a little while today. It is the first time in memory the wind/cold actually took my breath away. In the 100 feet from the car to the store entrance, we were literally out of breath!
Wind chill wise, it must be -10F or worse out there.
But, it all turned out ok. The mall was very busy, but it really didn’t bother us. The more people, the more Glenn is distracted. All of our Christmas shopping has been done for a while. Glenn was a pretty good boy. We discovered he likes lemonade! Tiff gave him some in Panera and he seemed to like it.
While Tiff was looking at some jewelery, I was looking at some watches. Very few Automatics out there now. All quartz. It’s a shame, really. Quartz watches have close to zero collectors’ value. Saw a bass ackwards Automatic ‘divers’ watch today. It was a Rado, 300m, but it did not have a rotating bezel, had a small, hard to read face, yet had a helium release valve. Just to let you know, helium release valves are only used for truly hard core diving, where you breath a helium/oxygen mix. The watch was $1150 and ugly as sin.  I think it was this model:

Being a first time Dad, I am surprised how much I really love the little guy. It is hard to describe how you feel about Glenn. Lately, has has been wanting hugs while on his changing table. He hugs me close and whispers cute baby sweet nothings in my ear. Make me want to hug him for hours.

 

Posted by on December 23, 2007 in Uncategorized

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Ahh, the Orange Bullet is on my wrist.

December 23

Went to the Mother In Law’s today and got my Christmas gift from her, a Seiko “Orange Bullet” Diver’s watch.
It’s a real beauty. Even though it is 42mm in diameter, the lug to lug
distance is about 43mm, so no annoying overhang on my dainty wrists.

You can see it changing the date in this photo.  It changes between
10:30 and midnight.  I did take it out of the box a few weeks ago to
resize the band, but now I can really wear it. I did miss wearing it. I
did get the perfect accessory from Tiffany, a valet with a watch drawer
to hold my slowly growing collection. I’ll take a photo of it when I
get a chance.

 

Posted by on December 23, 2007 in Uncategorized

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Vacation Started

December 21

Finally on vacation.  Not too busy at work.  After the Christmas luncheon, no one really works all that much.  The food was a bit disappointing.  Last year a local restaurant catered the food, which was much better.  This year was pretty common catering fare.  Fried chicken that was about 2 days old by the taste of it and really fatty Italian beef.  We did interview a person after lunch to wire up a crapload of new testers I designed for work.  Nothing too difficult, just something like 1,500 solder joints to solder before they are all done.  Poor bastard.

I had been using SeaMonkey for my internet needs, but I really miss some of the features in Firefox.  My favorite is ScribeFire, which allows easy blogging.  So, I am back to Firefox/Thunderbird.   The latest versions seem to be less memory leaky. 

Tomorrow, we are heading off to the mother in law’s place for a few hours and early x-mas gifts.  I am looking forward to my new watch, a Seiko diver’s watch.  It will be my first real diver’s watch.  Seiko has been making diver’s watches for over 40 years now.  It will have a bright orange face and solid stainless steel bracelet.  I picked it out, she paid for it. 

Glenn has been ok.  He is really trying to find Mommy’s limits.  He does throw some temper tantrums and he really is developing a personality.  I wonder how he will turn out?  Though, I find that I miss Tiff and Glenn more during the day than I used to.  I am glad I am taking a vacation to be with my family a little more. 

 

Posted by on December 21, 2007 in Family, Watches, Work

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Glenn Updates

December 19

Glenn has been pretty interesting lately.  He was a very good little boy at Arianna’s Baptism.  He sat like a little gentleman the whole time.
At Old Country, he was a little terror a while until we gave him his coffee (cup).  Then he was very cute.
He did do something very bad today, he bit mommy so hard on the leg it left a bruise!  Later Tiff showed him the bruise and said “OW” and he started crying.  I think he remembered he did a bad thing by biting.
I was taking care of him tonight, and I swear I heard him say “where momma?”  I have never heard him string two words together.  He is slow to talk, but fast in just about everything else.  His hand/eye coordination is excellent.  His memory is like a steel trap as well.  He notices if anything is out of the ordinary.

In other news, I am taking a few vacation days next week, so I will have 11 days off in a row.  It has been ages since I have had that many days off in a row (when Glenn was born almost 18 months ago.)  It will be nice to see Tiff and Glenn without worrying about work. 

 

Posted by on December 19, 2007 in Family

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Fhaaaaaaaack

December 16

Wow, that’s a lot so snow out there. Just finished blowing and shoveling and salting. Must be about 10″ to a foot by the look of it.

 

Posted by on December 16, 2007 in General Comments

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