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Kid hired a lawyer…

…and is contesting the eviction. No significant progress to report, despite the application of some Science. Kirsten is asleep now, and we’re waiting another couple of hours to see what happens next. But no, I will not be live blogging. Vital signs on mom and baby all fine. Also, Tara: “Gender.” There you go.

More cute cards

View from my office

We recently got some magnetic poetry pieces for the office fridge. My coworkers are a little dark.

Scandihoovian

Just for Meg, a photo of the finished (semi-custom) crib with mattress pad and navy sheets. Which I sewed on the famous Bernina.

More nursery

We received the crib last weekend, and I finally got enough stuff moved out of the back room that it’s starting to look more like a nursery. Here’s the crib — a Stokke Sleepi — set up as a rolling bassinet. It’s just small enough to fit through the doorways and roll (really nice wheels) […]

View from my office

At 37,000 feet in 5F. Won’t be seeing this view for a while now. Grounded until things are well established after Graglo arrives.

View from my office

In a suite at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, with a view out the window of the pool and Snackus Maximus (I am not making this up), my colleagues and I all pull out our laptops and resume working.

View from my office

Nice view departing DCA today on the northbound departure. “Avoid P-56” indeed, but a very pretty climb over the Potomac with views of the river, monuments and National Mall. Heading to Las Vegas for Black Hat, last scheduled work trip before the baby.

Nursery, better late than never

T minus four weeks: no time like the present to start working on having somewhere for Graglo to sleep. This weekend my folks visited from New Jersey, bringing fruit and cake and able hands to help set things up for the new baby. Mom spent much of a humid Sunday afternoon putting polyurethane on the […]

View from my office

The nice thing about the Acela between (you guessed it) Washington and New York is that it has pretty reliable power, phone and Internet coverage, and it’s about as fast as air travel to get to Manhattan. The not nice thing is, it’s still Amtrak. Even the Italians do high speed trains better than this, […]