an update.

A few interesting things have happened at this point. I'm taking a week off to experience the birth of Max--my first baby. The baby is actually a little late and I'm disappointed. But I'll describe my disappointment elsewhere as I don't want to dwell on it.

Everyone is still in place at work. I've moved cubes though. I moved to Don Tynan's old cube as he's now retired. He has a distinct laugh and I actually miss hearing it. I guess I'll also miss hearing biju's loud international conversations in the office next to mine. It's cool, Biju is applications engineer for customer services and I hear him talking to people in India, Brazil, Europe and the US. My favorite conversation to listen in on was one where he was talking to someone about staying longer in Rio de Janeiro to go clubbing in some of Brazil's clubs. They're fun conversations to listen in on.

Donna has shown me interesting ways to pray. I know that she's telling me something that's special to her because her voice loses some of its volume and looks right at you. She's involved in reconnecting with an old friend who she thought was MIA in Viet Nam. It turns out that he's not and now needs to talk to him. I'm anxious to hear the results of this endeavor.

I showed Blake how to Google hack music sites. I think it's funny to show him this stuff because the expression on his resembles someone who just figured out the keys to the universe--it's funny and I know that he appreciates it. Besides, they're called Google hacks but it's really not hacking as all this stuff is well documented by Google.

Brent has shown a mellow and calm side that I have never noticed before. Evidently something in his life has changed but he appears to be a very quiet, reserved and private person with pictures of his family in office. He appears to be a man who's focus in life is family as he's authorized a week of for me to make sure that my baby makes it into the world safely.

All in all, I'm in a really great place. I'm a little late with one project--two actually. But I'm so busy with the regular job that I just don't have time to work on extra-curricular projects. Maybe I'll do a little bit of it this week while I'm on maternity vacation and see how it goes. They also announced our bonuses and they're scheduled to be nice this year--13% if all goes well and the way business is going there's no reason why that should change.