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Today was Mom’s first day back at work. Fortunately, as a professor, she has a pretty flexible schedule and is due home within the hour. Still, Sam and I were largely on our own. We’ve made it so far, though it was touch-and-go for a little while there. One of the things that we did today before our early-afternoon nap was to go for a walk. It was a beautiful day (for January) here, and I’ve been noticing the lack of exercise brought about by the combination of having an infant at home and crappy weather outside.

Dear Sam, Once again, I find myself writing your monthly newsletter well past the end of your month. I have a little bit better excuse this month — we were traveling back from Mom-mom and Granddaddy’s on the day you turned 3 months old. This trip was interestingly exhausting and recharging for me. You didn’t seem to care much one way or the other, except you seemed to like some of the music you heard while you were there.

I forgot to mention, that I uploaded new Sam pictures in the gallery. Almost everything is in Month 3. Cheers, AC

We were actually willing to entertain folks a little while before we left for the holidays, but I never got around to blogging it. Afternoons are best. Please email (or call) to schedule a visit, and give us a call a little before you come over to make sure we’ve not accidentally just set the house on fire. If you’re sick, or think you might be, please postpone your visit. She’ll still be an infant next week too, and we’ll all be a much happier family if she’s a well infant next week.

Just a quick note to say “Happy New Year.” The samtrak info that was just posted will be incomplete until we’re back in Altoona and I have my daughter, wife, cat, food, and high-speed internet access all on the same level of the same house. I can then more easily update the SamTrak data, and I’ll catch back up on all of the logged I/O. I expect posting activity will pick back up a little then too.

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After YEARS of absolutely HATING when my fine dining experience was RUINED by the piercing, spine-crawling wailing of someone else’s infant, we braved being the culprits tonight. For the first time since Sam was born, we went out to eat. Not only that, we went out with the in-laws. We went to “Yang Ming” in Bryn Mawr — one of the finer Chinese restaurants in the Philadelphia area. In the past, we’ve had a good experience there.

More accurately, what days! It all started with the ill-fated early morning upgrade. I don’t even remember what all went wrong any more. I burned my finger (not badly, just enough to sting for a bit). I was using the sink in the basement of the in-laws office when it pulled away from the wall. I called for help (sure lucky I had my cell phone on me!). Carolyn and John both came to help.

I tend to think of the server that my in-laws use for their business: http://www.fayrealestate.com/ as falling in the same category as my other “personal” machines — like the one that hosts this blog, and http://www.santaal.com/ and so forth. I need to start thinking of them as clients instead. Yesterday, they were having some trouble. I did some investigation and found that a awstats vulnerability had been exploited. I was sure I’d password-protected the awstats pages, but when I looked through the apache configs, I found no such thing.

We were thinking of taking our daughter to the new children’s dentist in town: Plaque-n-pay.