Also, I am lazy.
But today is Father's Day and I guess I had better post something, so here goes:
First off Leia is still doing well. (Hey, I may be doing the writing but I know that Leia and Blueberry are the reason you are reading.) Her blood sugar readings have been really good and I continue to be very proud of how well she has stuck to her diet. It is no fun to count carbs at every meal and to have to stay away from cookies, cake, ice cream and basically all kinds of good tasting stuff. But my wife has shown a great deal of discipline in this and it has paid off.
Of course, she is past 37 weeks now, which means she is uncomfortable, but that is to be expected considering the size of the baby. Sleeping at night is a real challenge and I'm glad that she is finished with going to work. I hope she will get some rest and take it easy this week at the house. It would also be nice if the baby would get here soon and give her some relief. Half the time that I ask Leia if there is something I can do to help her out she says "I just need to have this baby". Fair enough.
Here is Leia's baby bump picture from today.
We both agree that the baby seems to have dropped since the last picture. Check out the previous week's photo to compare for yourself and see if you agree.
Leia told me to get something nice for myself for Father's Day, so I took her up on her offer. On Monday of this past week there was a great deal on netbook computers on a website that I frequent. An incredible deal really. If you don't know what a netbook is, it is really just a very small laptop computer. The prices on these things have been dropping rapidly lately and it got to the point that I could no longer resist. The price was so good that I actually bought 2 of them: a black one for me and a white one for Leia. To put this in some perspective, the computer that I bought when I went to college cost 12 times more than one of these netbooks.
The computers arrived on Saturday morning and I spent some time getting them set up on our home wireless network. I sat at our desk with both netbooks and our main computer while getting everything working and Leia found the image of me surrounded by computers to be quite funny. She took this picture to commemorate the occasion.
When I first told Leia about the purchase on Monday she wasn't really sure if she would get much use out of her netbook, but once they got here she changed her mind. She can surf the internet from anywhere in the house, stream TV and movies from our Netflix account, and the netbooks have built-in web cameras that will allow us to use video calling services like Skype and video chat in Google. Since I have one and she has one, I can do a video call at lunch to check up on her until the baby arrives. And after the baby is born I can call in to see them both. Very cool and very easy to do with the integrated camera, microphone and software. Sometimes I really love being a nerd.
By the way, I am using my netbook right now to author this blog post. I'm sitting on my reclining sofa and just finished watching today's coverage of the US Open while talking to my dad on the phone. Multitasking is awesome.
Final preparations for the baby's room were completed today with the addition of the painted changing table. I got up at 6 o'clock on Saturday to finish painting it and it took until about 10:30 to finish. It was very warm, but I worked on my covered porch with a fan on me and it was bearable. I left the parts to dry for 24 hours and then assembled the changing table this morning. I'm not at all happy with the paint job when viewed up close, but Leia says it looks good to her and that is all that matters. Besides, you can't see half of it once the organizer, various plastic buckets, the changing pad and the clothes hamper were put on it. It really was a pain to paint with all those tiny spindles, but it was free and it goes well with the rest of the room, so I suppose it was worth it.
Finally, I have been enjoying my new cell phone which has a built-in camera. I want to make sure that I have a camera of some kind with me at all times to capture those special Blueberry moments, so Leia and I upgraded our phones last week. It was practically free to do and we both like the new phones much better than the old ones. Call quality is much improved, not to mention all the cool geeky features like MP3 playback, video and image capture, and expandable memory.
I tested out my camera last week by taking this picture of my workspace. I have two computer monitors and I set the desktop backgrounds to show images of my niece and nephews. (My sister Carrie took these pictures.) Soon one of these monitors will have pictures of my daughter on it. I can't wait.
And finally, a picture for my own father on Father's day. Dad and I hate plastic blister packaging with a passion (so do most sane people). It is nearly impossible to break into. Yesterday I took this picture of a product called "Open It" which is designed to make it easy to open plastic packages.
Notice anything about how it is packaged? That's right, the "Open It", which is a product designed to open blister packages, is PACKAGED IN A PLASTIC BLISTER PACK!!! That is just ridiculous.
Happy Father's Day everyone!
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