I think I’ve heard or used that word so much over the past two weeks that I am starting to introduce it in every conversation.

How are you doing, Pink?
I’m fine, have you pooped lately? My son hasn’t.

Seems that our son has been constipated since the weaning. I saw his wonderful personality evaporate while he whimpered quite a bit. We tried all kinds of things, the doctor saying try less milk, more milk, apple juice, cherry juice, prune juice. It was pretty mild until Friday night. After that, it was misery all around. The doctor said he’d be fine until his Monday appointment.

The good news is that he is now doing very well. Him and I played by ourselves and he was engaged in toys and crawling and sitting up and talking.

BTW he went to his study at Boys Town today. He is making very clear and distinct sounds in his babbling, something that doesn’t tend to happen in similar infants with a hearing loss. The researchers said that he was a star today. Compared to one month ago, he’s added an entire class of sounds. YAY.

Well, my wife and I are looking forward to getting sleep. He is falling asleep earlier than usual, I imagine he is exhausted like us. I hope tomorrow will find a more rested family.

Other Poop
Outside of his digestive issues, I had a monitor burst into smoke and flames at work a week ago. The image skewed a bit and the next thing I knew, the sound of frying bacon and a loud pop. White smoke spewed out the top of the monitor (on and off). Little flames leaked out the vent holes in the back of the monitor.

High drama.

Of course, the replacement monitor came the next day and it didn’t work. The replacement for the replacement monitor does work, but it is the exact model and age of the one that exploded.

At least it doesn’t have a Sony battery.

To make the week complete, the Sony monitor at home died. No smoke or fire, just a lack of an image. On the plus side, I have a 15″ flat panel sitting on my desk. On the down side, it is not supported by Linux very well, so I have 800×600 resolution in ‘thousands of colors’. This is Fedora’s way of saying that graphics just isn’t your thing on this computer.

Sycarion
Turns out that my friend, mrtool, has created game pieces for the L’Attaque variant I created on the game site. They are these neat little disks with numbers stamped on them. They look sweet. I hope Friday to have a board done and take pictures. Sweet.

Also turns out that I created YASD (yet another subdomain). This one uses a dictonary program called Glossword. It exists to mark the progress of the creation of the Lenga language. The grammar is outlined and I’ve created the numbers and a few special words. None of this is on the site, however. I’ll link to it when it actually contains content.

Misc
Our son’s birthday party was a success. There was some friction with the family, but our son had a good time considering that he was feeling awful. We have three pianos for him. My wife and I both play, so it was a natural gift. Yes, he plays with all three and loves them, no joke.

My work is trying to come up with ways to give away computers. I hope that I can convince them to try a modified Edubuntu installed on our surplus computers. No internet, but it will have a bunch of other things. I’ll let you know if that happens. I secretly hope that I can transition to running this program, but that’s just me.

Otherwise, not much else. I’ve been stretched and pulled in all kinds of directions. I think I even went crazy for a brief moment – considering that I’ve actually had a nervous breakdown before, I know what I’m talking about. But God is faithful and I am joyful.

Not happy, but joyful.

See you when I am more coherent. For now, a large polystyrene object is calling me.