Apologies for not posting sooner.  Since the last post Marissa is officially one year old and the Wife is now X=X+1 years old, a number not to be disclosed lest I get my fingers broken.  Naturally, this and another writing assignment takes a bit of time away from the blog front.  The week of celebration for Marissa (soon to be a national holiday, if I had my way) finally winds down this upcoming weekend- the New England Grandmother flies in on Friday, the family party is Saturday, and we’ll spend Sunday dealing with the party debris.

One of the several online communities I spend far too much time in has a communal Baby’s first birthday onesie.  Here’s Marissa in it.

Yes, she’s doing better with the sitting.  Of course, the next frame on the camera after this is her toppling over, so it’s not perfect yet.

As a birthday surprise, Marissa was the happy recipient of her one year checkup.  I think “shrimpy” might be the best adjective.  15th percentile height and weight, so at least she’s proportional.  We’re not blessed with epic height on either side of the family, unless you count my Dad’s brother, so not entirely unexpected. We somehow made it a year without any antibiotics for ear infections or whatnot, which the doctor was pretty pleased about, but I think that’s offset somewhat by the neuromeds she’s had, so it’s a bit of a wash there.

More posts this week here and elsewhere, I promise.

Fairfax Update

Fairfax has been a bunny about town!

Fairfax has also spent some time in the Corridors of Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.  Here’s Fairfax on a Microsoft Surface.

I haven’t even seen a Microsoft Surface in real life.  Fairfax got to visit an old friend while he was there.

Fairfax spent time at Microsoft courtesy gamertag: THE DON WAN.  Her blog (and more Fairfax pictures) is here.  If you read the blog, and not just gaze at Fairfax’s magnificence, you’ll see that the bunny spent from the 4th of November to the 7th in the hallowed halls of Bungie.  I’ve known this was happening for about a week now, and I’ve been itchy about it.  Now that the info is out, I can be all giddy about it!  I’ve been a Bungie fan for more than a decade, well before Halo.  Most old-skool Macintosh users are.  I never played Gnop, but I did play Operation: Desert Storm, Minotaur, Pathways into Darkness, various Marathon titles, and Myth.  They all tortured my inadequate hardware for years before Halo. 

Myth came along on a military deployment.  Three of us crammed into too small a space with a laptop, and slogged our Myth detachment up a windy twisty mountain.  No reinforcements to make, no resources to exploit, Myth wasn’t quite that kind of game.  The end of the mission was close, we had been all over the map.  Forces low, we jubilantly clicked into the last of the dark spaces of the map.

Out of the darkness, lurched this huge shape which proceeded to kick our remaining men to death with an appropriate smear of pixelated goo on that snowy mount.  Good times.  Bungie, thanks for breaking the monotony of a slow Atlantic deployment with brutal Trow and Dwarves that couldn’t aim.

I’m just glad Fairfax got to visit.  Yeah, jealous too.

Thanks Hawty McBloggy (could be NSFW, you’ve been warned!) and Louis Wu.  Never would have happened without you.

Oh!  I keep forgetting to post this- thanks “Newguy2445”