November 24, 2008: Completely Disgusted with Hudson Valley Hospital Center

Dominica is now 40 weeks and 3 days pregnant… I got to sleep in again.  This is five days of continuous eight hours or more of sleep every day.  This is unprecedented!  I can’t remember the last time that I was so rested. The federal governments backstop plan for Citi went through during the night …

November 23, 2008: A Relaxing Sunday, But No Baby

Dominica is now 40 weeks and 2 days pregnant… I woke up around seven thirty this morning but, since this is probably my only chance to really relax for quite some time, I decided to just stay in bed and escape for a while.  Oreo got himself up and went looking for his grandpa long …

Installing ruby-sqlite3 on Red Hat or CentOS Linux

For my development environment, I like to SQLite3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS.)  When working with the gem installer for the sqlite-ruby package I kept getting an error on my newest machine.  I searched online and found no answers anywhere while finding many people having this save problem.  I have found a …

November 21, 2008: It’s Baby Due Day

Nine months.  Forty weeks.  Well, we’ve made it to this point.  The baby is now officially “due”. Dominica and I slept in until nine this morning.  I really needed that after working so hard yesterday.  I sat starring at the computer screens for almost every moment of the day yesterday.  It was rather brutal. Dominica …