Well I guess having the second baby was the rough equivalent of a blog blackout for the past month or two. I have been playing with slices of time to try to fit everything into the week and it hasn't been working out great to have that extra slice to take a record of what is going on. But with that said there have been a lot of updates in the home and nesting front that may have been all about burning off extra nesting hormones as a result of the birth of Zachary.

We went and bought a new rocking chair and Ottoman the day after Zachary was born. That finally came about a week ago. I also ordered some things online including a 32" flat screen Aquos TV and a system for making seltzer at home. Yuval's eye-fi card came in the mail a few weeks ago but I didn't have time to look into it for a while. I bought a blue-ray DVD player since it was too frustrating to watch the 1080P tv tell me my DVDs were playing at 480p. I also bought a 2 terabyte Lacie drive to hold the growing mountain of photographic documentation on our lives. We also bought a hot tub for the yard. That prompted us to need to acquire a patio since we couldn't figure out how to get to the hot tub without creating mud and when faced with the idea of having to build my own hard structure underneath it I realized I was better off hiring professionals. So the yard that I spent many an hour last year cultivating to grow grass is now a combination of pavers for the patio and torn-up from the construction. But the hot tub (a Sundance Marin) is now in the yard and Madeline's favorite thing to ask about before or after dinner.

Last weekend as Sarah's father was helping to rig the wiring behind the new television I was hunting for which panel on the circuit breaker ran the TV and I reset the computer in the office to the point where it wouldn't boot. Luckily I had already moved the photos off of it onto the Lacie 2TB drive so rather than worry about it I switched to my old Windows XP box that sounds like a jet engine but works fine. The benefit was that the computer that died was the Windows 2000 machine and the Eye-Fi card from Yuval requires XP to run. The unfortunate event lately is that I can't find the charger for the Canon Powershot camera so I am not sure what I will do when traveling or in situations where it is more convenient to have a smaller camera. I am tempted to deconstruct the whole house looking for it but don't have the time and I haven't taken a picture outside in a long time.

So I set-up the Eye-fi card and have been quite excited to see my photos saving both directly to the hard drive and output to Google/Picasa web albums. So I am considering revamping my photo publishing mechanisms to just point to Picasa Web albums given that I am already a few months behind on any publishing photos due to baby and start-up busyness.

But today is a quiet day for some reason with little plans and just some clean-up from the snow. Madeline and I began the day at 8:30 and took an hour long time in the hot tub with palm sized snow flakes falling on us. She enjoyed throwing the rubber ducks out of the tub and asking me to go fetch them... which I periodically did.

Zachary has been a lot of fun but I haven't had all the time I would hope to with him. He likes the swing which generally puts him to sleep. Lately he has had some unexplained acne that we are hoping isn't a long term thing.