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Earning my GeekDad cred
Here, for posterity’s sake, is how I liveblogged my wife’s labour and baby girl’s delivery using Facebook status updates:
September 28
John is timing contractions! 9:36pm
John is finding the iPod perfect for timing contractions. 9:56pm
John is watching his wife updating a Calc spreadsheet during labour. Amazing. 10:28pm
John is realizing that using an iPod to time contractions officially qualifies him as a GeekDad. 10:50pm
John is boiling water (for tea) and resisting the urge to tear up old sheets. 11:08pm
John is off to bed. Maybe Ella will come overnight. 11:14pm
September 29
John is having breakfast and then it’s off to the hospital. Updates from my cellphone when I can. 10:06am
John is at the hospital. We have our room. Everything going well. 12:56pm
John is having lunch. Ella’s birthday could be today or tomorrow. 3:06pm
John is glad Laurie is getting some pain relief and some sleep. Epidurals are great. 8:41pm
September 30
John is a daddy to Ella Faith Bowman, 8 lbs. 3 oz., born at 10:31 last night. 7:46am
John is home with Ella and Laurie and is going to bed. 2:31pm
Bike 1994-2007
So, I’m riding my bike to work today, and it broke.
Not “it broke down.” Not “the chain broke” or “the tire broke.” The bike broke.
The frame cracked right through the bracket that holds the rear wheel in place.
I was surprised. Don’t get me wrong. The bike was a piece of crap. But I was sure the derailleurs or the chain or something would go before the frame broke.
So, I used my house key as a screwdriver and removed all the useful bits. And then I abandoned my bike on Queen St. E, just east of the Don Valley bridge, and caught a streetcar to work.
I was thinking of taking the same streetcar home to see if it was still there.
Import…
I’ve imported (what I think is) the last back-up I made of my blog. There’s about a year missing, which, at the rate I’ve been blogging, could mean as many as a half a dozen posts.
I’ll see if I can retreive some of the missing posts from Google cache or archive.org or something.
Fark this shite
My thoughts exactly.
Gah!
Maybe migrating to Movable Type wasn’t such a great idea after all. My blog is swarming with spambots leaving links to online pharmacy sites and degree mills in my comments.
I’m spending most of my time on this blog just deleting the comment spam.
I should install that Blacklist thingy. Or just take it all down and stick to Livejournal.