My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
I’ve been busy. Many of my side projects have come to an end and I’m not actively looking for more at this moment so I can get the graphics book finished. It’s holding up my life a bit and I want it done. The problem is that you can’t force writing, no matter how much you really want to.
I launched http://www.snippetstash.com/ a few weeks ago. It’s just a simple site that lets programmers store bits of code they tend to use over and over again.
So Lisa’s more than four months old already. I can’t believe how much time flies. In the last four months, quite a few things have happened around here.
First, Ana just finished up Second Grade. She’s planning to spend her summer doing lots of reading and learning, and hopefully she’ll get some video game time in with me. I’m pretty proud of her–she really pulled it together this year.
Next, I just gave a presentation at RailsConf 2008 in front of 208 people.
Carissa’s getting in on the internets action. Go check it out here.
I can’t believe it’s been over 8 weeks already! We just finished removing Lisa’s final leg casts in preparation for her new set of shoes. We’re excited, but she didn’t like the cast removal this time It seemed to be quite painful for her which was hard on us.
She’s also finally done with eye surgeries. For those that don’t know, she had to have two additional surgeries (making four total – two on each eye) because some scar tissue was in the way of the pupil so her eyes couldn’t dilate.
One Month
Published February 24, 2008
It’s been a month now since Lisa was born and we’re still balancing everything. The house needs a good cleaning and I’m getting ready to return to work in the middle of the week. Lisa’s already on her fourth set of casts (two more to go) and we’re ordering the shoes with the bar this week when we go in, so we can be sure it will get here in time.
Last week, on the 13th, Lisa had her first eye surgery and it went very well. She’s had a shield on her eye at night for the last week just so she doesn’t accidentally put her hand in her eye. Today she had her second surgery and it went just as well. We’re so glad that’s over. We have to come back to Marshfield soon to get her fitted for contacts sometime in the next few weeks.
I’ll be heading to Portland again this year to go to Railsconf 2008. I’ll be giving a talk there again this year too called “Design For Developers” where I’ll teach developers how to design a pretty-looking web page. Should be a blast.
I’ve been putting off writing an update about Lisa’s eyes and legs for some time so I could deal with everything personally. Now that things are finally settling down a bit I’m going to get back to regular updates to the blog.
Lisa has been doing well with her clubfoot treatments. She’s on her third set of casts and things are looking very good. When we were in the hospital, the doctor who takes care of the casts made a big deal about us making sure we never miss an appointment.
It’s been confirmed that Lisa has cataracts in both eyes. We have an appointment set up for Wednesday in Marshfield to have the pediatric optometrist take a look so we can come up with a plan of attack.
I’m not ashamed to tell you that this was extremely difficult for me to deal with. Even though I knew it would happen, I still hoped that she would be able to dodge this one.
More photos available for viewing and downloading at Flickr.