For any of you who've wondered why I have a blog at all...



This is a great geek-comic, too.  Check it out at www.userfriendly.org.

R.

And believe me, today I'm looking everywhere for it.  My happiness for today comes from finally finding the User Friendly comic strip syndicated feed and getting it on my Friends page.  You can tell that User Friendly is a good comic because Illiad (the author) really kinda sucks at drawing.  That means that it has to be the content that carries it!  And it's great--it totally suits my latent techno-geek life.  Right now it's in a story arch, so if you want to read them I'd suggest going back 5 or 6 to see what's going on.  Short form:  Pitr the programmer, intent on taking over the world again, has taken his year+ paid leave from his regular job at Columbia Internet ("You can't have a whole year of leave built up!  But the computer does say you do..." "Da, computer say so, must be so.") and has "arranged" a job at Google, that being one of the most efficient means of pushing his plans forward.  Good stuff.

My life sucked all over the place last night.  Both kids are sick, and sick in different ways--one is feverish with a terrible cough, and one is stuffed up beyond belief.  So one of them would wake up whiny and miserable, crying, which of course wouldn't even change B's breathing pattern.  I'd get up, deal with child A, then child B would kick in.  Deal with child B, lay down, B starts snoring.  Time passes.  B stops snoring, child A wakes up crying, begin again.  This happened FOUR TIMES between 10:30pm and 1am.  It was like there was some sort of evil choreographer sitting on our roof pulling marionette strings on my family to exact misery.  I finally fled to the first floor to try and sleep on the futon, which meant that I was away from the snoring, but I had to go up & down the stairs every time child A or B would wake up.  ARGH!  I probably could've kicked B to the futon so that I'd've been on the same floor as the kids, but he can't sleep on the futon and this would've just resulted in both of us being sleep deprived rather than just one of us, and he had an important meeting to attend this morning (wonder how that went?).  Also, since the kids have two different sicknesses, I have TWICE the chance of getting sick, and a non-trivial chance of getting BOTH kinds of sickness!  Ain't life grand?

Since both kids are sick, I did not go to my friend/clients house this morning to drop of the birthing ball and chat.  It is not a good idea for the doula to make her client sick during the 36th week of pregnancy, when labor seems imminent.  She, too, is beginning to descend into prodormal labor.  Drat.  This one is most likely because her baby is still posterior.  She's very frustrated, which is understandable, but she knows that her body is just trying to move the baby into a good position.  If she forces herself into labor now (using some kind of induction technique or anything), she'll just be in for posterior labor hell, and an incredibly high chance of having a c-section (only about 7% of posterior babies are successfully born vaginally in hospitals; funny, homebirths have almost no c/s's for posterior babies.  Odd, eh? *snort*).  I gave her some exercises to try and help her baby move around, as well as the wine-bath-wine-bed suggestion for getting the contrax to stop and get some sleep.

R.