It's been a little quiet around here lately at My Name is Rob. In real life things have been anything but quiet. Nearly all my time at home has been occupied by our little bundle of joy, Will (now six weeks old).
On top of that I've been busier at work than I've ever been before. I am in the middle of seven projects at the moment (up from the usual two or three), one of which has completely monopolized my time for a month or so. The other six haven't gone away, they'll still be waiting for me when I finish this one. Needless to say, things have been pretty tense lately. It's no wonder Will has been able to post way more to his blog than I have to mine.
As I write, I am putting off packing for my weekend trip to Chicago for a software development conference. I really should get back to that.
We were lucky enough not to be the first of our generation of friends and family to have a child. As a result, we've been fortunate enough to receive many hand-me-downs. Will loves his little hand-me-down bouncer.
Melissa's sister was nice enough to give us (among other things) a nifty swing. There was a slight hiccup with the swing though, when I started to assemble it I realized the entire assembly was there except for the seat... which I could not find anywhere. I searched the house high and low. Finally, Melissa asked her sister if she happened to sill have the seat. Her sister couldn't find the seat.
Melissa started looking on Craigslist for swings. After a few days she noticed someone selling the exact same swing for a reasonable price, with the caveat that it didn't run on AC power (battery only). Well, since it was exactly the same swing this limitation didn't really matter because we could just take the seat off this one and attach it to the one we already had. We got the swing, swapped the seat, and Fig was good to go.
A day or two later we got a call from Melissa's sister... she found the seat. Oh well, now there's an extra. A day or two after that, a brand new swing (the exact same model) arrived at our house via UPS. My mom (who was well aware of our earlier dilemma) was kind enough to get the swing for us. In less than a week we went from zero functioning swings to three!
Well, I returned the new one, we're using the pieced together swing, and we have still enough spare parts to build an entire new swing, should the need arise. We are fortunate enough to have many wonderful people who care about us enough to help us out in these stressful times, and for that we are truly grateful.
The big news, of course, was Fig's arrival on the 12th.
In case you're interested, you can follow William's blog here, or his Twitter updates here.
Photo of the day
Running
The second best news of the month is that my knee injury is finally all better and I'm running and cycling again.
Month
Distance
# Workouts
Avg per Workout
January
109.34 Mile
10
10.934 Mile
February
55.83 Mile
7
7.97571 Mile
March
108.792 Mile
10
10.8792 Mile
April
74.85 Mile
8
9.35625 Mile
May
64.5669 Mile
9
7.1741 Mile
June
7. Mile
1
7. Mile
July
0
0
0
August
16.3 Mile
5
3.26 Mile
Total
436.678 Mile
50
8.73357 Mile
Sure, those five short runs aren't helping my yearly average (which was was hovering around 9 miles per run), but I've long since stopped caring. I'm just glad to be at it again.
