December 1999

A tough day today for the new mother and son. Are the baby blues setting in already? Or are we as new parents just unsure of ourselves? Is nursing really supposed to be such a struggle?

It took me a couple of days before I was ready to write a story about Birthing Christopher. Participating in [...]

At 3:00am, Mama felt her first labor pains. She’s already written an announcement in Maus Newsletter! Today might be a good day to be born!

2:30pm Here we go! Contractions are 12 minutes apart, water is broken, and we’re on our way to the hospital….

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

And of course it rained yesterday, so no white Christmas here. All the snow from last weekend was washed away.

Our plans for the day are:

Visit our neighbors across the road and next door

Church service at 3:00pm in Jesteburg to watch the neighbor girl in the [...]

Dave Winer wants us to classify ourselves by geography. “Where is Lüllau?”

Here’s the first step:

That nice looking snow from yesterday is going to be gone by Christmas Eve, say the weather folks.

T minus 12 days and counting. Mama has been taking acupuncture, drinking raspberry-leaf tea, breathing rose oil, going in for lymph drainage, swallowing tiny homeopathic sugar balls. Her doctor says the baby will be at least 4 kilos. (The cat, Karl-Heinz, is over 7 kilos, by the way.) I wanted to take a picture of [...]

Mama is looking at me instead of out the window at the neighbor’s horse shed in back.

At my urging, my parents in Minnesota got a computer a couple of weeks ago and are now nearly in the Internet… they can browse web pages, but can’t yet send and receive mail. That reminds me how hard [...]

For once we are preparing our Christmas cards early… here’s Mama hard at work! (And, yes, that’s a Tux Linux mascot behind her, even though she’s strictly a Windows woman.)

It seems I’ve caught the attention of “Scripting News”. Sorry, Dave, but when I put Curly in my template, Mama just had to play the wav [...]

VA Linux opened NASDAQ trading today with a bang… but I don’t know if I made it on the train or not.

As a “Debian” developer, I received ‘the letter’, returned the paperwork, and received confirmation that my paperwork was received. However, German applicants this week received notice that due to problems with German securities regulations, [...]

Maybe in three weeks we’ll have more to show here…. for now we’ll just have to settle for this nice young lady “;->”

“curly”