minorthird

so…just when I had started to make an effort to get a post up every day I go silent. Much going on and very little time to talk about it.

let’s see…

– I got a new job. After being unemployed and trying to live a stay-at-home dad’s life I’m now a 9-to-5er.
Well, an 8-to-6er as I only work Tuesdays through Friday. It’s a contractor position with a strong possibilty of a full-time gig — I turned down the full-time offer because I didn’t want to change health insurances before Samson’s next surgery. I’m doing a few .NET projects — it’s nice to have some variety in my job — including at least one Windows applications, which is a first for me. Being out of the house all day sucks!! It’s such an abrupt change from how things have been since we brought Sammy home from the hospital — not to be cliche, but when I came home on the first day I think I asked if he had grown (I mean, it was only 12 hours, but it felt like a week).

The IT department at the new job is very strict about internet usages. No webmail — no gmail — no personal web usage. It’s a huge change from my last company. So, no blogging from work. I can’t even take a moment out of my day to check out my flickr to look at pictures of Samson — Erika has to send me pictures to my phone just so I can get through the day!

– Samson spent a few days this week at Children’s Hospital. Our cardiology appointment last Tuesday revealed a small narrowing in his aorta where there was some scar tissue after they tried to fix his coarcation. We went in on Monday for a heart catherization and a balloon dilation. It was very weird being back there — there was no need to figure out how things worked, so it was comforting and sickening at the same time. Everything went well *knocks on wood*. His cardiologist was very happy with the results, and they managed to get a good look at his heart so we’re going to avoid another pre-op cath and his sedated echo next month! The downside to all of this is that Sammy seems to have picked up a stomach virus — he’s very happy and hungry, it just comes out in a foul way on the other end! We’re home now and looking forward to a nice, quiet, long weekend.

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