Isabells first Halloween is here. She decided to be a treat this year.  Meaning that she was sweet and nice today.

Some people in Jamies family are in awe of Isabells brown hair. Apparently its pretty rare for someone related to Jamies family to have anything other than blonde hair and blue eyes.  Isabell has been wonderful today. She’s been pretty quiet and hungry all the time, but not much fussing.

We brought her home Sunday night about 8pm.   Waiting for us when we pulled into our neighborhood was:

Decorated House!

Now, without further ado, here are the pictures you’ve all been waiting for:

Here’s her pictures:

6 lbs 15 oz

19.5″ long

Well, at 1am Jamies water broke. So now its 6pm and we’re settled into a room at our hospital.   It was slow go until an hour ago, then everything seemed to really start moving forward.  So, hopefully in the next couple hours we’ll have a baby girl to show off.

10 things your IT guy wants you to know

Note: This article was not penned by me. I found it here. But, that blog has been deleted by the author. So I am recreating the post here. If anyone know the name of the actual author, please do let me know. I would be happy to give credits to him/her.

1. If you ask me technical questions please don’t argue with me because you don’t like my answer. If you think you know more about the topic, why ask? And if I’m arguing with you…it’s because I am positive that I am correct, otherwise I’d just say “I don’t know” or give you some tips on where to look it up, I don’t have the time to just argue for the sake of it.
2. Starting a conversation by insulting yourself (i.e. “I’m such an idiot”) will not make me laugh, or feel sorry for you; all it will do is remind me that yes, you are an idiot and that I am going to hate having to talk to you. Trust me; you don’t want to start a call that way.
3. I am ok with you making mistakes, fixing them is my job. I am not ok with you lying to me about a mistake you made. It makes it much harder to resolve and thus makes my job more difficult. Be honest and we can get the problem resolved and continue on with our business.
4. There is no magic “Fix it” button. Everything takes some amount of work to fix, and not everything is worth fixing or even possible to fix. If I say that you just need to re-do a document that you accidentally deleted 2 months ago, please don’t get mad at me. I’m not ignoring your problem, and it’s not that I don’t like you, I just cant always fix everything.
5. Not everything you ask me to do is “urgent”. In fact, by marking things as “urgent” every time, you almost ensure that I treat none of it as a priority.
6. You are not the only one who needs help, and you usually don’t have the most urgent issue. Give me some time to get to your problem, it will get fixed.
7. Emailing me several times about the same issue in the same day is not only unnecessary, it’s highly annoying. Emails will stay until I delete them, I won’t delete them until I’m done with them. I will typically respond as soon as I have a useful update. If it is an urgent issue, let me know (see number 5).
8. Yes, I prefer email over telephone calls. It has nothing to do with being friendly, it’s about efficiency. It is much faster and easier for me to list out a set of questions that I need you to answer than it is for me to call and ask you them one by one. You can find the answers at your leisure and while I’m waiting I can work on other problems.
9. Yes, I seem blunt and rude. It’s not that I mean to, I just don’t have the time to sugar coat things for you. I assume we are both adults and can handle the reality of a problem. If you did something wrong, I will tell you. I don’t care that it was a mistake, because it really makes no difference to me. Don’t take it personal, I just don’t want it to happen again.
10. And finally, yes, I can read your email, I can see what web pages you look at while you are at work, yes, I can access every file on your work computer, and I can tell if you are chatting with people on an instant messenger or chat room (and can also read what you are typing). But no, I don’t do it. It’s unethical, I’m busy, and in all reality you aren’t all that interesting. So unless I am instructed to specifically monitor or investigate your actions, I don’t. There really are much more interesting things on the internet than you.

We went to the Doc yesterday.  She told a very sad Jamie that it looks like our daughter is in there for the long haul.  The bright spot was that if the 6th of November came around, our doctor would be willing to induce.  I believe Jamie stops every hour or so, looks at her stomach and demands “COME OUT TODAY!”.   I fully blame the non-early birth on Jamie’s parents.  The told her when she was younger that they hope she has a kid “Just like you!”.  This means our daughter is going to be difficult and its already showing.

Jamie’s current refrain when asked how she’s feeling is “All done. Just done”.  Something wonderful for me though, is now Jamie wants to be in bed at 8:30.  I love my sleep and now all I need is for her to quit going to the bathroom every 30 minutes in the night.  Maybe she’ll sleep on the couch so I can get a full nights sleep?  Is that asking too much?

We’re 7 days from full term and 4 weeks from the bump’s due date of Oct. 30th.

So close to done.