We’d been cruising south toward Tacoma. Sophie was awake in her car seat but was strangely quiet. I turned around and—-whoa! “Pull over! Pull over!” We stopped. Luna got to Sophie first. I grabbed the camera. Cars hurtled behind my back at highway speed.
Sophie’s one today. We regaled her this morning with “Happy Birthday!” as she sat up in bed and smiled like a scamp. She was amiable at breakfast, too, a big surprise to me because she gets fussy at the sight of solids these days (to get her to eat, Luna and I have resorted to singing and cavorting; believe me, neither of us can hold a tune).
Only a certain kind of geek will delight in the following post.
I favor Vim for most of my text editing. I wanted to compose my WordPress entries with Vim, especially after finding a Vim syntax file for Markdown. Great! But how to post those entries into WordPress?
I found a way last night. A Berkeley student with the same itch, Kesava Yerra, wrote a Python Vim script that posts to WordPress. Supposing you’ve installed the Ultimate Tag Warrior plug-in for WordPress, his script even lets you tag your post. (An earlier version didn’t have tagging.)
Tags:blog markdown python tagging vim wordpressI’m sick again. I’m weak, congested and sneezy; a Theraflu cocktail sounds delicious right about now. This upper-respiratory crap has hit me twice already. This third time had better be the last. What a terrible winter it’s been.
Sophie’s just getting over a week-long bout of diarrhea (her first); truly adorable runny nostrils; and one feverish, bawling, sleepless night. I dispensed 80mg of liquid Tylenol through an oral syringe, bringing Sophie’s temperature down. Sophie looked cute licking the cherry-flavored stuff off her lips. We’ve burned through her diapers. My hands feel like alligator skin for all the hand-washing that I do. Her doctor saw her Monday; her advice matching what I had gleaned already from baby books. At least I know that Sophie now weighs 15 pounds, 8 ounces.
Tags:sick sophieI love extensions in Firefox. They add power and elegance. I’ve tried a bunch of them. These are the ones that’ve proven their worth.
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So, on a whim, I poked my index finger into the little one’s maw. I felt a mineral hardness on her lower mandible. Teeth! Or, a tooth! It was the bite of an erupting incisor. When I told Luna, she stopped just short of jumping for joy. For Luna the tooth explained everything: Sophie’s recently attenuated appetite, her bout of diarrhea (and yes, Luna had me consult the “Diarrhea” entry in the baby manual).
In a few years we may have to pull that tooth (bound perhaps by a thread of floss to a doorknob). Yes, I will be sad.
Tags:luna sophie teethI met Luna yesterday after work. She suggested we check out the happy hour at Palamino. She had a single drink, a blended margarita. It was her first drink since the beginning of her pregnancy, oh, 15 or 16 months ago. She was dizzy before it was half done. We got home and a few minutes later, I found her puking it all out.
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On family, tools, and art 
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life\\\’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard
