Yesterday I was home, sick. Today we had the annual Halloween lunch. End result, no posts for either day.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Homer, I’ve coughed up scarier stuff than that!” - Grandpa Simpson

My Great-Grandmother’s funeral was Monday, and there was quite a turnout. At 99 years of age, she left behind a family that takes away the wonder about population growth - 30 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren - 6 surviving children too. Quite a few people managed to make it to the funeral, which is a testament to how much she meant to everyone in the family. Buttertarts and knitted mitts, among other things, were always available for the asking.

The funeral was a family reunion of sorts, on a scale that won’t likely happen again any time soon. Sadly, we had to leave earlier than we’d have liked, because of the long drive back home. It was good to see a lot of family that we haven’t seen in a couple of years - I just wish it didn’t take a funeral to get us all together. (Well, weddings work too, I suppose.)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Remember son, not all lynch mobs are this friendly.” - Homer

My Great-Grandma passed away. I don’t know when the funeral is or anything like that, but depending on when the funeral is, I might not post Monday or Tuesday. I realize that I was lucky to have a Great-Grandma, and I am lucky to have known her. Her health wasn’t very good of late, though the last time I saw her, she was busy crocheting baby blankets for those great-grandkids who are/were expecting. We didn’t tell her about Erin being pregnant, since she seemed pretty stressed out over the half dozen baby blankets that she was already making, and whether or not she’d get them done. She was one sharp lady. Rest in peace.

About an hour into the day today, someone came here to ask me why something on the intranet wasn’t working. It turns out that the server was upgraded to Win2K last night without mentioning it to me. The stuff that was broken was pretty minor, and didn’t take long to fix, once I had access to the new machine, but still…Some people knew about it, some people didn’t (including my boss, who’s got his fingers in almost every IT pie here.) The really amusing thing is that the person who is in charge of the intranet, and who was responsible for the upgrade, is on vacation today, so I can’t even go bug her for not telling me about the upgrade. I guess I should be happy, since she doesn’t bring me many change requests anymore. I don’t think anyone can update the site right now, but that’s ok, since nobody else has seemed to notice. I suspect that’ll get ironed out on Monday.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I heard your dad went into a restaurant and ate everything in the restaurant and then they had to close down the restaurant.” - Ralph

I can’t believe how long Erin and I spent shopping last night. Neither of us likes shopping much - well, not in the traditional sense of the word. We were looking at infant car seats, and finally decided on one, but we haven’t bought it just yet. We did buy a stroller though, so the first piece of baby gear entered the house last night. It being the end of October, and Erin being done work Christmas Eve, things are really sneaking up on us.

Gee. I wrote the above paragraph, then pretty much forgot to finish my post for today… I don’t know what else I had to say. I guess nothing then. Just like every other day :)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Hot damn! No more sitting in the dirt at the drive-in.” - Cletus

The baby was kicking last night, and I could feel it. Erin was glad to finally have me confirm that she’s not crazy…It was kinda cool, and kinda strange. An interesting experience to say the least.

I mean, I’ve felt babies kick before, so it wasn’t just that. It was the fact that this is our baby kicking that made it feel different. I eventually had to take my hand off of Erin’s belly so that I could get some sleep - otherwise I’d have stayed up all night waiting for the next kick.

On a non-baby related note…I got that US Robotics wireless/wired router from NCIX - because I heard about it via Red Flag Deals it was $199, so when the $100 mail in rebate arrives it will work out to around $120 total (taxes and shipping) Not too bad, considering I paid more than twice that for the old WAP that I got back in February. Anyway, hooking it up and setting it up was pretty simple - I eliminated the need for the Linux router, the hub (which I think is malfunctioning) and the SMC 2655W. My current plan is to use the SMC unit as a wireless connection for the PS2 - I should be able to just hook it up to the network adapter and be off to the races. It’ll be fun to try anyway - the next thing is to try and track down a PS2 network adapter… Then I can pick up that Qcast thing I keep talking about, and Erin can have her music in the livingroom :P

The only problem now is - where do I put the webserver and assorted other computers? We’re planning on turning that room into the baby’s room (better do it soon, I guess) so they’re going to have to get moved somewhere. Likely to the spare room in the basement.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I hope you enjoyed my one-man pie fight, kids!” - Krusty

Went out for lunch to Crawdaddys today - great food for a cold day. So that’s why I’m posting so late today (had to wait until coffee break time to stop what I was working on :)

Erin and I watched the first episode from the Stargate SG-1 season 2 DVD box set that we got from Amazon.ca. Now we finally know how they managed to survive the season ending cliff-hanger from season 1. Well, technically we had seen that episode before, but it’s not quite the same as watching it off of the DVD. I kept reaching for the remote to skip the commercials whenever it would fade to black, but obviously there were no commercials to skip.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Don’t take it so hard lad. I was wrestling wolves when you were at your mother’s teat.” - Groundskeeper Willy

That snow from last Thursday is still hanging around. It kind of looks like it’s here to stay, which sucks. Who knows though, we could end up with a heatwave in a week that melts it all away. I don’t mind snow usually, but I’m not ready for winter just yet (for whatever reason.) It’s not like it’s that early in the year even anymore - I remember a couple of years back when we got over a foot of snow on Thanksgiving weekend while we were out in Russell.

I spent a pretty lazy weekend watching sports - football, hockey and baseball (yep - the world series sucked me in.) Baseball is a pretty good sport to watch on the PVR, since you can speed things up to 4x during the dull parts.

It sounds like they may have caught that sniper in Virginia…Good news, since there was talk of me getting sent out to Baltimore in the near future. The closest the sniper came to the warehouse I’d be working at was 15 miles - just a little too close for my comfort personally. Of course maybe they didn’t catch the real sniper. Either way, I’m pretty sure it’ll be a couple of months until I’d get sent out there anyway.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I’m a Murdiddly-urdeler!” - Flanders