The Occasional Solipsist

Yup. That's a car parked in the middle of an intersection.

It's my Mom, if you're curious, just on her way home after coming to visit us for her birthday. Why do anything normal like pull out of a parking spot when you can back her up 15 feet and hang out in a busy intersection for about 5 minutes, right?

The rest of the visit wasn't quite as perplexing. Close, but not quite. It was good until the praying over the cake started. Personally I would've gone with the more traditional 'making a wish' over the cake, if anything, but who am I to judge? Besides, a little holy-rolling is usually good for some comic relief.

What else?

Well, the quest to keep Enterprise on tv continues. A group of three anonymous donors stating they work in the 'commercial space flight industry', have pledged $3 million towards the budget of a season 5. Now I know I'm a fan, but holy fuck that's a lotta dough. I think the list of people that are crazier about Star Trek than I am just got a little longer by three. Although that being said, one of the people rumoured to be involved is Richard Branson, head of Virgin Everything and money spender extraordinaire. So I guess it'd be like grocery money for him.

Some really cool news: Superwife and I have finished the nursery. Well, let's be honest, it was mostly me because I have been fanatical about keeping her away from the paint fumes. But she and I had a really good time hanging the Winnie-the-pooh border around the room, and it finally looks like a 'real' nursery. I think the baby is going to love it (when he/she gets old enough to appreciate it of course). I totally get that the baby couldn't give a rat's ass what colour the valences are. But Superwife and I are happy with it, so that's what matters.

Some other baby updates: Yeah get used to 'em, babybrown is coming in a few months.

We have been reading to the baby a fair bit. In fact, we just went to the library yesterday and laid in a supply of Seuss' Horton books. And we have been playing music to the baby as well. I've been loading up my mp3 player with a nice selection of quieter tunes from some of my favourites. All the literature I've read suggests classical. So baby has been listening to Zeppelin, Floyd, pretty much as 'classical' as I get. I think 24 minutes of Echoes is going on the menu tonight. Gotta acquaint baby with the stuff he/she's going to grow up thinking is so uncool, right?

And the job hunt continues. I am still getting work from the few contract gigs that I maintain and 8i apparently has a bunch of work in the wings from our sales guy. But I can't eat unsigned contracts. So I am still looking for something a little more permanent and a lot more regular with the paycheques. I have been expanding my job hunt to include any kind of technical position, be it hardware servicing, network admin, help desk, all of which I am totally capable and expensively educated to do. But so far, no bites good enough to reel into the boat.

So hi-ho, hi-ho, it's back to the job boards I go.

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