Ramblings of a Programmer

It has been quite a while since I posted anything to my blog.  Between work and taking care of the baby in the evenings, I haven’t had much time for anything else.My wife and I took the baby to the pediatrician today.  He is growing like a weed.  At 9 weeks, he is now 12 pounds and 24.5 inches long. 

We had a trial run for the delivery last night.  My wife’s contractions got pretty regular with some other pain.  Upon hearing of this, her doctor told her to head into the hospital.  So, right around 11:00 pm last night, we took off on the 50 minute journey to the hospital.  After 5 hours of up and down contractions, her doctor came in early this morning to check her and ended up sending us home. 

It was a bit frustrating for my wife.  She had contractions all evening with some of them “knocking her socks off” so to speak, yet the baby is still not here.  He will come when it is time, of course.

We are both really anxious at this point.

We had a couple of false alarms earlier in the weekend.  My wife has had, as she puts it, “a lot of tightness” in her tummy and pain in her back.  I guess I am a bit anxious and ready for the little rug rat to get here. 

My wife is just over 2 weeks from giving birth to our second son.  Tonight while in the kitchen, she stopped cold in her tracks.  I asked her what the problem was and she said she had a contraction that about brought her to her knees.  She mentioned later this evening that the contractions were constant while she is up and moving around.

Maybe we will be heading to the hospital this weekend.

My son and I went with my wife for her sonogram today.  Everything looks great with the baby.  Her pregnancy is going very well with no complications.  The baby looks very healthy.  After a lot of coaxing by the technician, the baby finally revealed that it will be a boy. 

Our 9 year old really smiled big when he saw the heart pumping on the screen.  He said that he got his wish.  I think he is taking to the idea of being a big brother.  I just hope he doesn’t charge the little guy for protection at school or something later on.   hahaha

Thursday, March 6th, is the big day for us. We go to my wife’s doctor to have a sonogram that tells us the sex of our baby that is due in July. We are taking Matthew, our 9 year old with us in hopes that he will get excited about being a big brother in the next few months.

So many people feel like the government owes them something.  We pay so much in taxes; the government should provide services for us like health care.  Yes, we do pay too much in taxes, but the government does not owe us anything, especially government sponsored health care.  I do not want a president who wants to tax us even more so that they can pay for health care for all Americans.  There would be way too much red tape and bureaucracy.  Where would you turn if something happened?  Think you will sue the government?  No, they are providing you with that “free” service.

Everyone should watch this particular video, especially those who  feel like the government owes them something.

http://www.freemarketcure.com/brainsurgery.php

It was announced today that Sun is purchasing MySQL for around $1 Billion (USD).  This equates to $800 million for privately held stock and acquisition of another $200 million in remaining stock.  I guess we will have to wait and see if this is a good deal for MySQL or if this will be the end of one of the best open source companies since 1995.

What a twit! I just don’t understand some people. Why would you post your bank account information in a public editorial about your denial of identity theft? How absurd is that? It would serve the person right if he got cleaned out.

Well, that is exactly what happened to Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear. His bank account was promptly debited for about £500 after his editorial was published. It really serves him right.

However, the thing that bothers me about this is the statement in the article about his mishap where Clarkson is quoted as saying, “The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again“.

What kind of security is this? Are you telling me that England has some kind of law that prevents authorities from capturing electronic thieves because it would break their Data Protection Act? Now that is the absurd part of this entire story!

Someone at work just mentioned that a co-worker emailed and said she had to return to the courthouse today for voir dire. From the dictionary, this term refers to the process by which lawyers selectively weed out prospective jurors to come up with the selected jurors for a trial. The term comes from Middle French.