October 15, 2008: New Parking at Eleven80

37 Days to Baby Day! (34 Weeks and Five Days Pregnant) 12 Work Days Left for Dominica; House closing scheduled in 6 days. Everything is getting so close.  We are really starting to feel the pressure as we need to have everything done very, very soon.  Dominica brought home the boxes last night and the …

October 14, 2008: Day Two of Swimming

38 Days to Baby Day! (34 Weeks and Four Days Pregnant) 13 Work Days Left for Dominica; House closing scheduled in 7 days. Joel Spolsky had a great article in Inc. recently on the dangers of paying commissions.  This is an extension of the greater concepts that surround the flowed ideas of organizational measurability.  Often …

October 13, 2008: Swimming Again

39 Days to Baby Day! (34 Weeks and Three Days Pregnant) 14 Work Days Left for Dominica; House closing scheduled in 8 days. First thing this morning we looked at Oreo and determined that he needed to go to the doggy hospital right away this morning.  His allergies are out of control and they need …

October 12, 2008: Final Drive from Peoria to Newark

40 Days to Baby Day! (34 Weeks and Two Days Pregnant) 15 Work Days Left for Dominica; House closing scheduled in 9 days. As you can imagine I was pretty tired this morning when I got paged from the office!  I was not expecting there to be any work going on this morning and so …

October 11, 2008: Baby Shower

41 Days to Baby Day! (34 Weeks and One Day Pregnant) 15 Work Days Left for Dominica; House closing scheduled in 10 days. I was awoken this morning by my father yelling that there was someone on the phone who needed me whom he was unable to comprehend.  I had thought that my work this …