And Baby Make 3...

Well, yep, the Blancos are pregnant. Specifically, Michele. :-) We're still very early, so hopefully all goes well.

Wow, I'm gonna be a dad. Freaky! I look forward to it, but it's definitely something that took a little while to settle in. Soon, just a few months from now, I'm going to be trading in my computer books for daddy books. Trading in my chess books for baby sign language books. :-)

Craziness! :-)

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Not entirely coincidentially, I'm at a cross-roads in my professional career. I have interviewed and am about to start a part-time contracting job to work with a company that operates in the Internet ether -- 100% telecommuting.

The skills involved are all ones I have been familiar with...but I've decided to reinvent myself in many of these areas.

For example, I am rebuilding my entire framework of HTML knowledge by studying it from the beginning. This was actually a really good idea! A lot of my HTML pre-conceptions were HTML 3-era. I missed the CSS revolution -- even though I know CSS. It's quite complicated, but sufice to say that I now have a lot more clarity on how XHTML 1.x relates to HTML 4.01/CSS which relates to the old browser-war era of HTML 3.

Interesting.

I'll be doing the same for DHTML and PHP. Like I said, I know these technologies already, but I think it's healthy to relearn a technology from the ground up after a few iterations have past just to understand the new semantics.

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Also, in the last few days, we've seen our sophett repaired (Lowes' deliveryman ran into it with his tractor) and my brother-in-law has been cleaning up our yard by removing our dead tree, pruning our dogwood tree, and prepping our window area for a retaining wall which will look so good!

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And now, gonna watch some Daily Show. I'll see y'all. :-)