Author: Doris

So the shutter delay on my little Sony 2.0 megapickle camera is driving me to pull out my hair. Do I have to spend $1000 to get rid of that stoopid delay? I don’t demand much from my cameras, just take the picture when I push the gosh-darn button.

So Vince didn’t go to school today because he puked up his breakfast. Otherwise he seems fine, full of energy, no fever, no runny poop. Sigh. Oh well, maybe I’ll order pizza for us at home. Umm, Edda is still pretty fussy. Last night at about midnight, she made the hugest, smelliest poop there ever was. Luckily it wasn’t as runny as the poops that she’s had in the past 2 days. I think she is improving. What else? Hmmm…. Vince likes Legos and to cross-dress.

Vince with his Duplo house. Look carefully and you can see the two guys in the house sitting on Duplo potties.

Vince wearing Edda’s Easter dress.

So on Monday, Edda started to have a little bit of puking and diarrhea but on Tuesday, she seemed happy and eating a little bit better, but the watery poop continued as well as a low grade fever. She stayed up most of Tuesday night fussing, so on Wed, we went to the doctor. Actually, we all see Dr. Sullivan at the Red Hook Family Practice near Bard and just by coincidence, I had scheduled Vince, Jeremy and me for phyisical exams on Wed., so I just added Edda to the schedule. And to make it a full afternoon, Ruby had her annual check-up on Wed also. Five appointments in one afternoon. Pretty efficient.

Anyways, the highlights…

Edda is fine, I was worried about dehydration, but Jeremy figured out a way to get her to drink Pedialyte from a bottle. She’s not very skilled about using a bottle because I mainly breast feed her. And the doctor said that it’ll take another 2 days or so to run its course. She seems better hydrated today and less fussy and she did sleep much, much better last night, although it seemed as if she nursed every 30 minutes, so less sleep for me.

Ruby got a microchip put in her back for identification. We are getting ready to move her to Germany and Singapore and one of the requirements is to have an electronic tag placed in her. It’s a chip enclosed in glass and is about the size of a grain of rice. It comes loaded into a syringe and then the needle is placed between her shoulder blades. And voila, she is scannable!

Had dinner with Bob last night, BBQ chicken and rice. Yum.

Now Vince is running a low fever, but he seems to be in a good mood. We’ll see if the runny poop makes the rounds.

For the LCD panel. I just got it today. I’m been wrestling with it for a couple hours trying to reinstall Windows XP, but it kept on giving me an error about how my hard drive was corrupted. I’ve figured out the (possible) solution but I need to get my USB floppy drive back from Choon. I don’t think I’m going to ever buy another laptop without a CD-ROM again. It’s a real pain to get the operating system on it.

Folks, I will be in DC Sunday Night & Monday. Mom moved to her new office which is a little bit further than the old one’s.

Played bridge and Soul Caliber on the Sega Dreamcast tonight. It was Shwe’s 30th birthday, and we surprised him at dinner. I should say his girlfriend surprised him by playing coy and even making Shwe suggest the restuarant that we were all meeting up in. Clever.

On the other note, Jack and Lynn are finally engaged. Lynn had her rock on her tonight. They had shopped together for the ring awhile ago and Jack was just making her wait for the ring to torture her. The proposal came in their living room after watching “The Notebook”. She was wearing her pajamas and he had just come out of the bathroom.

Turbotax is great. It cost me a little bit to file, but I found some deductions that I probably would have missed otherwise. Plus I get to keep my tax history online. Great stuff.

Hope she is getting better!