Stu's Rusty Bucket

Monday, December 03, 2007

Alexander vs FOOD

We’ve started Alexander on a food regime. We bought a huge butternut squash which I baked and pureed up and froze in icecube trays, we also pureed and froze peas. He seems to like eating the squash more than the peas but he likes to try and wear as much of it as we can get into him. The increase in food and going to real food (he still gets all his formula) has seen an increase in dirty diapers and the smell has gone up a notch :(

We’ve also instituted a sleeping through the night routine, aka we ignore his cries and he eventually goes back to sleep and sleeps through the night. We’ve had some good nights and some bad nights but it seems to be working well, and we think we are over the hump of his 3am feedings. He just manages to pee out his diaper now because he goes for 9 or so hours sleep without a change.

He is also very very close to becoming mobile, I predict we’ll be crawling in under two weeks. That means we need to be more vigilant in vacuuming the house and watching gwyn more closely when he starts to make a beeline to his 100lb puppy dog.

Friday, July 06, 2007

Colic

So we went to the doctors yesterday and he pronounced Alexander as having colic! AAAAARrgh. That means he cries a lot for no reason, he isnt sick or anything he just.. cries…

sleeping is unbearable. feeding is unbearable.

hopefully he will grow out of it very quickly, its quite upsetting to see his frowny face and little tears and his little ‘dad-make-it-all-better’ cry.

The bets are coming in that he will have red hair, tho I am very for blonde and against ginger but we will see…

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Alexander Kai George

Alexander Kai George, 8lbs 3oz and 22 inches long! Mum and Son both doing just fine. She popped him out naturally with no tearing or stitches like a real trooper (well a trooper who has a epidural!), she did great.

The elderly ladies of the county knit little caps for all the babies that come into the hospital

Thats all of us!

Joy wanted to show off her toenails, they are hand painted not a sticker…

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Baby is kicking

Ist been funny to see how much the baby is kicking, turning over etc. This big mysterious lump will just bulge out of Joys stomach like an alien and go from one side to the other.

Joy things she has dropped some and I suppose she has, but I cant really tell since Alexander is just getting bigger and bigger. Next week is the final ultrasound which may determine if its going to be a C-section or not, depending if he has dropped and is facing the wrong way or not.

His room is all ready to be moved in and looks awesome. All his little clothes have been washed in dreft or something. Massive piles of teeny tiny wee socks and onesies. We picked out the simple onesy outfit to bring him home in, washed up the blanket my mum brought me home in, which was used to bring my mum home in, etc, so its quite old we didnt want to be rough with it so we hand washed it instead of machined it (our washer is an agitator drum, which can be quite rough on fragile things).

Called the police who came out last night and fitted the baby seat base, they have a service they do where someone comes out, checks through the list of recalled products, installs it for you, shakes the heck out of the carseat to see how much it moves, says looks good, fills out a safety form for us and is done. Apparently a lot of people dont install it correctly. Insurance Companies like this kind of thing too so.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Its a NearlyBoy

Its nearly a boy. Yes we caved and found out we are having a boy, we are expecting Alexander Kai George to be born on June 22nd 2007.

It was kinda not hard to tell it was a boy, since he was not very shy, and just spread eagled on the ultrasound..  Mum was thrilled, so now she can buy boys things instead of unisex things.

His room is ready to move into more or less, all we need to do is repaint the trim/skirting boards and we are done and he can move in.

We are still not quite sure how Gwyn is going to handle a baby in the house, and it would break joys heart if she had to send her up to her parents house to live, but once the baby arrives, the dog, as much as she is family, gets the second tier.

We have a CD somewhere about getting your dog ready for a baby, all it does is play baby sounds so the dog doesnt go mental when the baby cries.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Kit Furniture

On the weekend we put together the babies changing table/dresser thing and installed two bifold doors on the wardrobe that the previous owners had ripped off the track.

We got the dresser online, and it was one of those kit things.. only this little dresser weighed over 100lbs! the wood was super solid and thick. We had to carry it upstairs piece by piece.

As with all kit stuff online there was a couple of damaged pieces… none of which we can figure out where they go so we assume they are just packing materiel, their shape and size is very odd as they dont fit the dresser anywhere…

Oh and we are missing two sides of a draw, so we have the front, back and base of the drawer just not the two sides… lol!

Need to ring the company this week and they will supposedly ship out the pieces we need.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Babies, roguelikes and dogs

Christmas come and gone. New Years come and gone. Worked my xmas holiday, we are now on the back end of our project that went live Jan 1st… So hopefully I will get my weekends back now.

Christmas was nice and not so nice. Sister in law had an ectopic pregnancy and they took her fallopian tube which was sad but good thing they caught the ectopic pregnancy before it became fatal.

We got some disposable nappies for xmas, since its never too early to start. I still like cloth nappies but we dont really have a washing line to string them out on. (electric dryers dont run cheap!). So I guess its disposable we are going :/

We also got a pack-n-play. All we need now is the baby to put in it. Not quite sure how the dog will react to the wee one when she/he arrives.

Speaking of he/she. We have a docs appointment this friday. Not sure if its a belly ultrasound or not but I think it is. 15 weeks? I dont think they can tell the babies sex yet but we are holding out till its born if we can to find out.....

The dog has not been feeling the best lately. She is all mopey and sad and off her food a bit. We are at the end of her shedding so thats good. She was quite interested when we got our bbq gas grill delivered by my in-laws and paid for by my parental units. She probably knows juicy steaks, hamburgers and chicken get grilled on it. Took her for a nice walk yesterday and she perked up a little, I think the rich xmas food scraps from the table didnt agree with her… she is nothing but a food thief…

The grill is nice, its a 3 burner, cast iron grill, side burner. 44000 btu. We are going to test it tonight with some london broil I have been marinading for 24hours. We seasoned it up to 700F for a while on the weekend, so should have burnt off all its factory oils.

One of my xmas presents this year was an awesome gardening book, its all about creating your own varieties of herbs + vegs, cross pollination etc, dehybridisation. Growing for particular colour, taste, shape etc and how to cull just for a specific trait. (eg: Hot Chilli Peppers and Bell Peppers/Capsicums are of the same plant.) (Imaging crossing a hot pepper with tomato and getting a spicy type tomato… that would be cool).

For the first time in a long time I spent some quality coding on my roguelike, sdlrl/cracks and crevices… It progressed very nicely.

I migrated I think all game saving structures into my own memory management system. This way I can save the entire state of the game by just dumping the memory manager. It abstracts out memory pointers so need to worry about any of that crap when saving/loading.

Fixed some issues with attributes (one of the corner stones of my game) and now it plays sweet. Since attributes are only add/sub and not ‘set’, you can turn on 5 lanterns to increase your FOV by a huge margin. I dont see ‘stacking’ like this as a bug, just like turning your car headlights to high-beam..  Stacking is one of the other cornerstones besides time/speed. There are no levels for advancement, the idea is to stack items that increase your life etc or find rare items that can do it for you. Same goes for magic points. To concentrate on magic you need to stack items that increase your magic point accrual rate for the big spells.

Got three skill levels working now, easy (you get 3 seconds per move), medium (you get 1.5 seconds per move), hard (.5 seconds per move)....

Monday, December 11, 2006

Heartbeats

On friday we went for another baby appointment. This one was to listen to the heartbeat.
Joy wasn’t feeling the greatest and her stomach sounded like a geiger counter, but the obgynist found the pulse, which was running at 150 BPM!! Joys was only 60 BPM.

Its funny to think something the size of a grain of rice or lentil was running at 150BPM.