Personal

Well, I couldn’t let February end without posting something…

As the month has progressed, I’ve began to move a lot of the development effort of my AD UserMod Assistant Tool to my blog. I really never created a good home for it. However, since I am the lone developer on it, I think this is where it should be housed. Nothing has really changed on that front. To be honest, I don’t know if anything will. However, I recently tested it in Windows 7 and with the IE 8 rendering engine and everything still works. So, you’ll probably start seeing things showing up in the this space regarding that tool.

On the home front, we are just getting ready for our daughter’s birthday. The crazy thing is, she walked before she was even 10 months and has already begun talking. Those were the milestones I was excited about. It will be nice seeing the family though.

Work has been work: busy. I’ve been working on a lot of Active Directory projects and some web stuff. I still don’t know where my career path will take me. Depending what day you talk to me, its either system administration or development. At least I narrowed it down to the technology sector.

That is about it for the month. It was a good close. Four happy customers for my side business. My family is healthy and happy. I can still put food on the table. Is there really any more to life than those simple things.

So, I am posting this everywhere and I now realize why new parents are so annoying. Last night, at 11:52pm, nearly 15 hours into labor, Rose gave birth to our first baby. She is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Rose had a pretty hard labor. Everything was progressing pretty quickly until baby decided she couldn’t make it down the birth canal. I am being blamed for her big head but I don’t really care now.

The doctors had to do an emergency cesarean section because of mom’s fever and baby’s heart rate. We were all scared but everything went smooth and she came out crying and breathing on her own.

I don’t know how I am going to leave her or her mom in six days. It will probably be the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

So, my sister is going to have another boy. She sent out an e-mail today announcing the great news. I have no doubt he will be just as awesome as my other nephew, Hunter. I really hope I will be home to meet the new addition to my family before I leave for my deployment. Congrats Jess (and Sean, Lotus and Hunter!)!

So, the official word is in. I’m kicking myself for not writing down the ultrasound technician’s name. If she is wrong, she owes me some money for the suffering I have and will have to endure. After the appointment, I came home from work and found pink clothes all over the house. I thought, “It’s starting!”

Truthfully though, I couldn’t be happier. Every day, I think about what she is going to be like. I already know she will be stubborn. And, I have to admit that, she will probably be daddy’s little girl. What can I say, I’m going to be a dad. What girl isn’t daddy’s little girl?

Here is a shot: .

Besides that, nothing much is new. Just enjoying the fact that I am going to be a dad!

Oh yeah, her name… Angelica June. My little angle… I can already hear her saying, “But why daddy, I’m your little angle.”