- Memory Harker sent me this with a note that said, “If there were more things like this, there still wouldn’t be enough things like this.” I am inclined to agree.
- Laurenn sent this link for lovers of Trinny and Suzannah. In real life, I’m a sort of shrunken pear. Post-baby? Maybe a skittle…? (I’ve only seen one ep of the Tim Gunn show, but I didn’t like it nearly as much as I do T&S. It didn’t seem as… practical. I am fascinated by that software they’re using, though.)
- The only thing that bums me out about the new iPhone thus far? No way to record video. So often I think I’d like to record something HL’s doing and upload it to Vimeo for posting on HenryLeo.com. Alas. I suppose I could go grab the digital video camera from Fraction‘s office, but I’m not in the habit of carrying that around with me. Hm. That camera doesn’t get enough use for what it cost. I need to ask Fraction to show me how to use it. Oh… it occurs to me that my Lumix might do video too…
- In the migration over to the fancy new computer* I lost a couple of programs, including NetNewsWire. I don’t feel like re-buying it, so I’m trying out GoogleReader. Is has this “share” feature, if anyone’s interested. Basically, I can flag anything in my reader that I want to share and it feeds onto that page w/o comment.
- Also on the new machine? Twitterrific, TextExpander, MailTags (yes; trying that one again) and the beta test of OmniFocus.
- Speaking of the latter — back to work with me.
*Named “New Baby” btw — oh, and the iPhone is “Motherbox.” Thanks for that suggestion.
The current issue of COMPLEX MAGAZINE (available at all your finer magazine-vending establishments, including, um, Borders and Barnes & Noble) features “[o]ffbeat interviews with David Cronenberg, Judah Friedlander, Heather Graham and Matt Fraction.”
Aw, yeah. See p. 51.
Oh, also: Chamillionaire apparently claims Ultimate Victory.
I’m coming to terms with the fact that the cold weather is going to be here before I’m back in my size 2s. Now, I’m too cheap smart to spring for a “quality” transition wardrobe (I’d much rather save that money and buy some nice items when I’m back to feeling like myself again), but I’m going to need some warm clothes in the coming months. Courtney sent some — I’ve got jeans now, hallelujah! — and some of my sweaters will still fit. I’m thinking I’m going to need some warm tights, a couple of warm nursing tops (do such things exist?), a pair of trousers and a coat that will accommodate boobs.
Coat-wise, I’d like something warm — but not bulky — in a red, green or blue, probably. Black if I have to, but I try to keep my black-wearing to a minimum. Red or green plaid would make me very happy. Of course, I don’t want to pay much for it at all. Thoughts?
(I’m adjusting back to the darker hair color too, which is throwing me off. I loved wearing chocolate brown with the red hair. Not as sure about it now…)
I’m thinking I’ll start looking at Old Navy, La Redoute and maybe TJ Maxx. Any suggestions?
It’s really hard to track Henry’s sleeping and nursing at night. He sleeps with me and tends to nurse on and off when he wakes up, which he does often. So often, in fact, that I can’t see myself getting up and writing it down every time. I wonder if it’s time to put the telemetry on hold until we get to the point where we’re ready to put him on a regular sleep schedule?
Also, now that we’re satisfied that he’s getting enough to eat, is it necessary to track his nursing…? It seems like half-assed record keeping might be worse than none at all.
Also? I’m tired.
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Han helped me get Henry’s blog up.
Yeah… my baby has a blog. So what?
Just a quick check in as I have a bazillion things to do and HL requires nursing something like 22 hours a day:
- Casanova is the featured comic on MySpace/ComicBooks! Even better? They’ve posted issue #8 FOR FREE and Fraction has written a little intro. Go check it out here. (I can’t figure out how to do the kudos thing. Isn’t it sad that I’m out-smarted by software intended for 14 year olds?)
- Also? Fraction won BEST AUTHOR (MO) in the local alternative weekly’s BEST OF KANSAS CITY issue. How cool is that?! (Thanks to Travis Fox for passing along the news!) Congratulations, baby.
- As long as this is the Fraction Update, I might as well mention that he’s on Twitter and MySpace now.
- When I was a little girl, my two favorite records were Johnny Cash, Live at San Quentin and The Muppets, The Frog Prince. I find myself wanting to sing the Sweetums song to Henry, but I can’t quite remember more than a line or two. Looks like the album’s out of print. Any ideas?
- Lots of deja vu lately. Not quite sure what to make of that. I always assume it means I’m on the right path and now would be a good time to pay attention.
- My old machine (RIP Lady Snowblood) started the death rattle this weekend, so I’ve got a new machine. A desktop this time. It is unnamed, as of yet. As long as we’re hemorrhaging money, Fraction and I decided to get iPhones, too. I blame you, Dan Curtis Johnson.
- OPERA is Fraction’s browser of choice, so I gave it a go for a few days. I’m not diggin’ it, so I’m back on Firefox for the time being. I left Opera installed though. I might have another go at it in a month or two.
- Still haven’t finished thank you notes or ordered birth announcements.
- Uncle Han is going to help me put up a page for HL. It’ll go here.
- Okay, back to work… Two manga adaptations and one sample that has to be written. Argh.
- ETA: $@%$#@%!! Remember the Great Address Book Crash of August 2007? Got Plaxo and all that? Wasn’t supposed to happen again. Well. In the migration to the new machine something went kablooie and now I have double entries for a good 50% of my address book. That would be simple enough EXCEPT that in a good 50% of those cases (read: one quarter of my contact list) I don’t know which address/card is current.
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Happy Birthday, Nana.