Saturday, June 6, 2009

KS: Ryland, 2.7
EA: Shamus, 2.19
KO: Tyler, 2.26
AR: Gavin, 3.26
NJT: Timothy, 4.1
HL: Lana, 4.14
RJ: Patrick, 4.22
AL: William, 5.6
NW: Cody, 5.26
WG: Isaac, 6.2
JS: Aiden, 6.5 (actual due date!!)

KP: girl, 6.?
SH: girl, 7.16
LC: boy, 7.27

So far only 1 out of 11 was a girl! Crazy stats. Wonder what the p-value is :-p

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

KS: Ryland, 2.7
EA: Shamus, 2.19
KO: Tyler, 2.26
AR: Gavin, 3.26
NJT: Timothy, 4.1
HL: Lana, 4.14
RJ: Patrick, 4.22

AL: boy, 5.7
WG: ?, 6.1
JS: boy, 6.5
NW: girl, 6.18
KP: girl, 6.?
SH: girl, 7.16
LC: boy, 7.27

Halfway through babyfest!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

One more down!

Gavin was born 3.26!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Add another baby to Babyfest...

KP, girl, June.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Ahhh...

Went to the massage therapist to get my rhomboid sorted out. You know it's bad when the therapist says "Well, I've spent 25 minutes on your rhomboid, and there's lots of circulation to the area"
Me: Yup, it's nice and warm
Therapist: It's really pink and I don't want to overwork it, but you'll have some soreness there tomorrow.

You know that the knots got attacked when you realize he's using his ELBOW. I made an appt to go back in 3 weeks. :-D

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Oook....3 down, 10 to go.

KS: Ryland, 2.7
EA: Shamus, 2.19
KO: Tyler, 2.26

AR: boy, 3.22
NJT: boy, 3.28
HL: girl, 4.?
RJ: boy, 5.5
AL: boy, 5.7
WG: ?, 6.1
JS: boy, 6.5
NW: girl, 6.18
SH: girl, 7.16

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Holy crap.

Add another to babyfest, due end of July.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Yay!

Ryland James arrived early! 8:55 pm, 7lb 7 oz. Uncle John says he has long fingers and is perfect! :)

Babyfest Updated

So, there were a few missing items/errors on the Babyfest list...
KS: boy, 2.14
EA: boy, 2.20
AR: boy, 3.22
NJT: boy, 3.28
HL: girl, 4.?
RJ: boy, 5.5
AL: boy, 5.7
WG: ?, 6.1
JS: boy, 6.5
NW: girl, 6.18
SH: ?, summer sometime....
KO: boy, soon...

Ackness.

Also, one chapter of my thesis is finalized :) Only 8 to go...

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Babyfest

OK, this is more for my own recordkeeping, so I can stop making lists when trying to figure out when babies are due, who knows what their baby is, etc...

KS: boy, 2.14
EA: boy, 2.20
AR: boy, 3.22
RJ: boy, 5.5
AL: boy, 5.7
JS: boy, 6.5
NW: 6.18
And a few I'm not sure of specifics:
HL: girl, ?
WG: ?, 6.1
NW: ?, 6.18
SH: ?, summer sometime....
KO: ?, ?

Yup. in case you counted, that's 12 babies in ~4 months. I don't blame Kat for passing up on my water. The crazy thing is, most of them don't know each other...two know each other, and another set of 3 know each other, but that's it! And my mom seems to think someone is due 2.5, but I can't recall who.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Thesis Fairy

If anyone locates the Thesis Fairy, please remind her that I need her. Now would be nice.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

J +1

Flexcell contacted me...the drive is functional! Yay :)

Technology +1

I finally set up the Flexcell system. Turned it on, went to install Office....and the cd/dvd drive isn't working. Won't open, not listed in hardware devices. And there's a tag that if you try to open the CPU you void the warranty. Fantastic. I have contacted them re:this.

Trying to install an older version of Ubuntu onto the bricks. They really might just be a lost cause. I've also been advised that I should just replace the printer....le sigh. I really want to figure out what the problem is though - I guess that's the engineer in me.

Technology: 4. Colleen: 1.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

J vs. Technology...

Right now, technology is winning.

I've been trying to set up our new Flexcell system. I just have to attach the reservoir to the vacuum pump. And try to remember how Jack unplugged the incubator to get the tubing in, but plugging it up such that it's still closed from the room's atmosphere.

I was asked to update software on three bricks (very outdated laptops). Originally, I was going to install XP on them, but our dept can't find their XP cds (like the lab's printer, they apparently walked away). So, I decided I'd go the Linux route. However, with the newest brick, I get to a certain point in the Ubuntu installation and I get the following error: -bash: /dev/null:Permission denied. The other two don't even have DVD drives, so I was going to try Puppy Linux, but that's not being cooperative either. Damn Small Linux looks like it might be the way to go. Any thoughts?

Lastly, I have an HP photosmart all in one (C3180). It was 'free' when I got laptoppy (nearly 2 yrs ago). Since then, it sat under Mom's desk acting as a tennis ball blocker. However, it's not turning on. It's not the power brick, because I tried that with Mom's and it worked. The light on the power button turns on and the buttons' backlighting turns on, but that's it. HP will charge $40 to dx the problem, nevermind fix it. Suggestions?

Back to fighting the tubing of the Flexcell system.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

7 Things you may not know...

1. I was my school spelling bee champ 3 yrs in a row.
I think my last year I was 15th or so in the regional bee. I don't remember what word knocked me out the first time - the second and third were merganser and hostel.

2. Not only can I touch my toes, I can usually lay my palms flat on the ground.
I'm weirdly flexible. I can't do splits (box or side), but my hammies for some reason are sorta slack. It's puzzled more than one md, pt, and massage therapist!

3. Even if I get married, I'll keep J as my last initial.
It's the name that will be on my diploma and any papers that get published with my grad work (unless anything happens between now and May). I kinda like it anyway :)

4. I've been featured in a comic strip.
Really - it was PhD Comics! I got to eat dinner with Jorge too, as a reward for postering campus about his talk. Hey, it worked!

5. I don't have a middle name.
Really, it's so I could take my maiden name as a middle name upon marrying. See#3 for how this has backfired. Mom doesn't have a middle name either, and she didn't take her maiden name as a middle name...that'd be a mouthful!

6. I screwed up the 'order' in my family.
Mom, Dad, Michael and I all graduated from Lowell High. Mom, Dad, and Michael all graduated from MCC...with Michael and Dad in the same program. Thus, I have screwed up royally by going to UML and RPI! I joke that maybe I'll go back for a fun degree, but to keep the 'order' I'd have to go for radiologic technology like Ma! Hmm...

7. I have closet 'girly' traits.
I have a large collection of bath/shower goodies, fair share of makeup considering I don't wear it on a daily basis, and a decent nailpolish collection. Ironically, that's about the extent of it.