The Afters, Future of Forestry
December 21, 2008
My dear sister Hannah gave me an iTunes gift certificate for my birthday and so it has been a good excuse to look for some music. Every now and again I stumble across a fantastic band that I've never heard of before, and here are a couple examples:
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Boot-up VS HibernateDecember 21, 2008
Something that has been driving me up the wall this year is how long it takes my computer to boot up. Perhaps the reason I've been noticing it even more is that in trying to be more energy conscious I've been turning my computer off. When booting up, my desktop takes roughly 10 minutes before the computer's hard drive stop whirling, and trying to use the computer before that point is an exercise in frustration.
Well duh, why have I never been using the
Hibernate feature. I use it all the time for our laptop: Close the lid and when you want to use it the next time, open the lid and you're up and running in under a minute. I tried hibernate on my desktop for the first time today and it works pretty well. Way better than booting up, anyway. Woo hoo!
100 daysDecember 18, 2008
Well, it's about 100 more days until a little person we have yet to meet joins our family. What a wild thought! At times Meredith and I get impatient and don't want to have to wait any longer to meet them!
Here are some things we've done recently:
  | The ultrasound: What an amazing thing. Somehow I had pictured in my mind a fuzzy black and white picture, but ultrasounds are more akin to a video. As I stood there in the dark room bent over Meredith, we watched this little person's arms, legs, and head moving about. It's hard to comprehend, but a baby lives its own little life inside of its mother's womb. For those few minutes we were in another world, fixated on the screen. |
| It's amazing how easy it is to "forget" that there is a little person inside of Meredith even though we talk about this pregnancy every day... it's just so "unreal"! |
| Going the midwifery route: We were lucky to get in to the St. Jacob's midwifery clinic and are we every thankful for that. We've really enjoyed our experience there so far. Last night we watched The Business of Being Born, which was a very interesting film. It's amazing how common C-sections have become and I tend to agree that it's kind of crazy. |
| We spent a couple of hours in Baby's 'R Us. It's a whole new world! I've never paid much attention to the hundreds of baby products out there. |
| Considerations of taking some parental time off of work... we'll see if that works out. The dream is to be able to rent or borrow a small camper/RV and have a cross-Canada trip in the summer. Uncle Tim had some wise advice: If I take some time off of work, it doesn't shorten the amount of time Meredith can take off of work, just how long we get EI. |
| Figuring out where this little one will be cared for once Meredith goes back to work. We're fortunate to have a Christian lady close by that does day care in her home, and people we know have said very nice things about her, so we're hoping that works out. So many things to think about! |
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