Rough Night

My baby girl had a very rough night last night. She is in the small percentage of newborns who are affected by colic.

Infant colic is a condition in which an otherwise healthy baby cries or screams frequently and for extended periods without any discernible reason.

But then they explain,

Traditionally, colic was ascribed to abdominal pain resulting from trapped gas in the digestive tract.

Which is what I believe to be the case. So it's for no apparent reason that they cry, but because they are actually feeling pain. You see, I don't care about sleepless nights, cold dinners, endless crying, as long as my baby girl doesn't feel pain. It's fucking gut wrenching seeing your baby cry out in pain.

Julianne started showing signs of colic around 5 in the evening and it didn't get any better, just worse. We gave her some pain medicine our pediatrician recommended but it didn't seem to help this time. She couldn't get even 10 minutes of sleep without twisting and turning showing signs of discomfort. I usually sleep in the master bedroom and my wife with the baby in her room, but last night I couldn't bear to be apart seeing her the way she was. So I practically stayed up all night looking after her and trying to soothe her the best way possible, but nothing helped. She finally fell asleep around 3 in the morning after she made "doodi". It kinda eased her back down.

Supposedly colic only lasts during the first three or five months of a newborn's first year, but then you have the teething to look forward to.

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Over 10 years ago

Me and my wife

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Work Area

I mostly don't spend enough time at my desk just when I have to complete my monthly production reports, which I'm currently behind on. I do get flooded with paper work; memos, equipment spec sheets, CAD drawings, quotation forms, and equipment maintenance sheets. It's very hard for me to get organized, I usually have to take some time about every three months to throw out old paper work and just keep the digital copies which was a big mistake.

About three months back I reported a worm in the network to the IT guy, to see if he could locate it and terminate it. The first PC to go was mine. I lost everything. I had Kapersky and was pretty confident I was ok, so hadn't back up my files in a long time. The second PC to go was my CAD artist's PC. We had to spend over $2,000 to send the hard drive to see what we could salvage. The good news is he got most of his files back. I didn't. Then the third victim was my Inventory guy's PC. He also lost everything but had a good back up.

From this point on I said fuck PC's. I bought a 20" Imac. Couldn't be happier. My boss has a  Macbook and contacts me everyday when he is away through Ichat. I have Turbo Cad, E-Drawings, Slingplayer, Windows Office for Mac installed on my Imac. I don't use Entourage, I just prefer Mail. The only thing I haven't figured out is how to make a Table inside the email.

Beside my desk I have an Espresso machine. I'm a big coffee nut. I get great blends of coffee down here in Honduras. I usually mix Espresso beans and Arab beans together to make one awesome blend. I usually come into work about 45 minutes early s I can read the newspapers and drink my espresso. This was I avoid almost all the traffic. I estimate in ten years that it will take me roughly 45 minutes to get to work from inside the city. That is why I'm seriously considering living on the beach, the nly set back is there are no good schools close by.



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I would like you to meet

Julianne Marie



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Beach Life

I live about 30 minutes away from the beach. Every weekend me and my wife head off to the beach to unwind. If I'm lucky enough a friend of mine will loan us his wakeboard boat. But still we just love being so close to the ocean.

"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, our sweat, and in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came." --Pres. John F. Kennedy, Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14, 1962, Newport, R.I.

Let me share some pics. This is our beach home. My father in-law was gracious enough to give us a home here.


This is the pool area.


This is the marina were se set off on the boat. You have to go through a small lagoon first. [


This is the boat with my dog onboard.


And this is our backyard.


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