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Contact Info- E-mail: dave at oledave.com
- AIM: oledaveo
- Home Phone: 314.863.4002
- Home Address: 7104 Pershing Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63130
WorkHobbies & Interests- Metropolis St. Louis- Helping to revitalize St. Louis
- Outdoors- Canoeing, Kayaking, Rafting, Hiking, Climbing, and Biking
- Swing, Cajun, and Contra Dancing- Haven't been doing this much lately but have fun when I do
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We're six month into this pregnancy and boy do my feet hurt... As you can see from the accompanying pic, there's no doubt Jen's pregnant. If she's this big at 6 months... could be a long 3rd trimester.
Near as we can tell, everything is progressing swimmingly... the baby is in the 70% of size for his "age", so much so that they moved our due date up to March 14th (from the 24th). All indications are that we'll have a fabulous little boy in a few months... Jen's having a harder time finding a comfortable position to sleep, her feet swell if she's on them for too long, getting up from a chair is getting more challenging, and shoe-tying will soon be a thing of the past (give's me a chance to practise up on tying shoes on others before the big day arrives).
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Brian and Christina (my brother and sister-in-law) were kind enough to bear a playmate for our soon to be little one... Jen and I have made sure to get in plenty of quality time with their adorable little one, Zoe... BCZ only live a mile away just north of us in U-City which should be awesome as we can tag team on babysitting and get the cousins together for play groups with minimal hassle.
Zoe had a bit of a bout of Pneumonia starting at the end of the 3rd week but after living in the hospital for a week and a half, she's settling in happily to her new home.
Brian created a nice little website for Zoe... we hope to add more to the site soon but it's a heck of a start...
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It seems I've given into darn near every electronic craving I've had lately and now I am awash in so many new toyz... Just bought a brand new Toshiba laptop, the old (3 years) desktop computer was beginning to slow my productivity and so it was time... Courtesy of Verizon's "new in two" program I scored myself a new Razr for only $100 and it's built in 1.3 Meg camera will allow me to share the latest pics of the soon to be new one with y'all... Jen got me a Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 player which combined with my Yahoo Music Unlimited subscription means I now own all music... or darn near. My parents were kind enough to get me a new wireless keyboard and mouse and I got myself a new external harddrive enclosure so I'll never run out of space on my laptop...
And finally, and probably my favorite, I'm actually saving money and getting a free DVR out of the deal by ditching Charter and going with Dish Network... in addition to the free DVR which is amazing, I also get all the movie channels free for 3 months so my DVR is chocked full of stuff Jen and I have been meaning to rent for a long time... now we just need time to watch it...
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I'm still undecided on whether it was wise to invade Iraq. What I am certain of, is that how it was done was one of the most bungled attempts ever by the United States.
Even assuming it is possible to create democracy in Iraq
by force, the Bush administration blew its chance through a long string
of miserable decisions: It rejected voluminous advance planning done by
the State Department for a post-Saddam Iraq, disregarded military
projections of force levels needed to maintain order, dismissed
accurate CIA analyses of likely post-war ethnic and tribal conflicts,
disbanded the Iraqi army, under-equipped U.S. troops and installed a
hapless-to-corrupt provisional governing authority. And then there's the whole torture fiasco... It just doesn't seem the Bush administration is capable of planning for more than one possible outcome.
Tuesday's Los Angeles Times, for example, beefed up months of
scattered news reports with a detailed account of the operations of
Shiite paramilitary death squads within the Iraqi police force and
Interior Ministry, including the use of torture in secret prisons and
summary executions of Sunni opponents.
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But the world doesn't need to judge the U.S. solely on words. Other
nations can hardly be expected to forget Muslim prisoners abused and
humiliated at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq and Afghanistan, the web
of internationally scattered CIA secret jails, the arbitrary
imprisonment of prisoners without trial or even charges at Guantanamo,
the administration's opposition to a statutory ban on inhumane
treatment, the secret transport of prisoners to foreign countries for
interrogation and, almost certainly, torture.
Do Bush, Cheney et al. believe these things have no effect on the credibility of the United States of America?
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When I first graduated college, I remember having a conversation with friends about the term, "Man" and when does it apply. While in news reports you may here reporters refer to a 16 year old "man", it just never seemed valid to me. No, a "Man" to me was always someone older to me, people my fathers age and up. In fact given the choice between referring to myself as "Man" or "Boy", I chose boy. ("Guy" was my choice of preference though.)
But today, I turn 35. I'm married. I've owned a house for 10 years. My last roommate moved out Saturday. I run my own company. And I've got a child on the way.
And so, it seems I'm becoming more comfortable with the term. I still don't know that I'm there yet... perhaps some occurrences as I raise my child and get used to be being referred to as Mr. O'Leary will finally make it seem to fit.
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Had the second ultrasound yesterday (19 weeks). This was the one where we got to find out the sex of the baby.
It's an interesting process that you go through... First the nurse sprays goo on Jen's stomach and then fires up the machine and uses it to take a variety of measurements and look at the organs and stuff. So you're kinda flying around the baby like your viewing the 360 pics of a car online but in black and white and fuzzy. You catch glimpses of stuff here and there and try to figure out what it is you might be looking at...
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It's interesting that ultimately, everyone's primary mission in life (or lives, for those that belief in afterlife) is happiness. People who are happy are healthier, more successful, harder-working, caring and more socially engaged. Misery makes people self-obsessed and inactive.
Yet very few people spend much time on defining what actually makes them happy. Instead they thoughtlessly focus on a variety of things that may or may not lead towards happiness such as money, security, fun, ...
The times has an interesting article on scientific studies of happiness. It's a good chance to step back and ask yourself if your priorities are properly ordered.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush's shortsighted actions have come back to haunt him. It'd be nice if this were an aberation but to me, this is just one small piece of a larger pattern...
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Yup, that's right, the little 4.5 cm blob in this pic is a lovely combo of me and the misses genetic material. We're so excited! Just got the ultrasound done yesterday. We're about 10 weeks in at this point. Everything seems to be progressing perfectly so far... babies' heartbeat is 169/minute. Size is right on target. And Jen is finally not feeling nauseous all of the time. I'm so ready to be a dad!
In the pic, the head is the left oval... the babies hands are on its cheeks... can't see the legs in that pic.
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Jen and I are in the midst of a week long trip to Colorado... neither of us has been to Colorado in the summer since we were kids and we both had fond memories of our trip back then...
The pic you see here is taken from the Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park... Jen and I hiked around 11 miles and 3500 vertical feet to bring you this pic so you better appreciate it... it was truly one of the coolest things I've ever done and seen. Pictures.
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