What you WON”T do for your kid…

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=no_such_reality]Oh honestly soda is the evil I wish I could give up. Soda IS the gateway drug.

Congratulations!

If you’re a month out, hopefully all your prep is finished. Arrival could be any day. You say him, so if you’re having a boy, have you are you wife already agreed on yes or no on circumcision? The hospital will ask you when you’re at your most tired.

Along the lines of surfing, daddy and me swim lesson start as young as 3 months. Lots of dads in the pool![/quote]

UCSD will not do circumcision after birth anymore. My wife wants it done. I am circumcised but I am torn between the idea that its genital mutatlation and what is fashionable. Before you tear into me about it I asked my wife if she would mind him not circumcised. She asked “What does that look like?” I was surprise “you have never seen an uncircumcised penis before?” “No!” was the reply. I said go google it… For God’s sake there are more of those on the internet than sand on the beach. She did. The look of disgust on her face was memorable! She wants him to look like daddy… Daddy doesn’t care what he looks like but daddy does care about messing with his kids future for the enjoyment of sex. Its a tough call but either way its an outpatient procedure at UCSD… They won’t do it.

As for the swim lesson I have seen those too… Its called Drown Proofing. And there is an old 8 mm film of me being flung, like garbage, into a pool when I was about 4 months old. It was horrifying to watch and incredible to see that there is an instinctive mechanism that will allow babies swim, surface, and roll over and float on their back… which I did… It really is the wildest thing…

So yes, in general, I am almost ready… sdr helped me buy a home and I am still unpacking so it is going to be a stressful summer but one I am looking forward too.

As for UCGal… YOU GO GIRL! Or don’t! You’re retired now! 😛

Congrats! As for me I will be working until they won’t hire me again!

CE

P.S. During my move I picked up my UVerse PVR and noticed it was a Motorola box… I thought… I wonder if there is a little piece of UCGal in this thing… Well… There won’t be anymore if there ever was! Kind of sad…

[UCGal]

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P.S. During my move I picked up my UVerse PVR and noticed it was a Motorola box… I thought… I wonder if there is a little piece of UCGal in this thing… Well… There won’t be anymore if there ever was! Kind of sad…[/quote]

I didn’t work on the uverse – but the group that ran that project is based in San Diego – so I know a lot of folks who did work on it.

San Diego’s time warner doesn’t use much in the way of Mot/Arris products… Tend to deploy Cisco and Pace boxes. But I was working on a product for TW until I quit. It’s actually a cool product if they can work out the kinks of the various parts of the system (servers, gateways, clients, etc.) It’s in field trial now – but not in this market.

Comcast uses a LOT of settops I’ve worked on. I can go into various in-laws homes and say “Hey – I wrote code that runs in your cable box!”. But that’s in Philly and Lexington. If it’s a MOT box and the model number starts with DCT or DCX chances are I wrote code for that box – or at least fixed bugs for it.

[carlsbadworker]

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[joec]

I don’t think all dads aren’t disciplinarians…

My kid has told me multiple times that I’m not nice and mommy is nice…

I notice I also rarely swear so I have nothing to give up. My wife swears tons more than me and the other day, the kid asked what f*ck was.

[sdsurfer]

I wanted to chime in with something an older wiser person shared with me about a year into having my son.

Maybe I looked tired that day or something, but he told me that is was necessary to allow the grandparents or someone you trust to take care of the kid(s) for one weekend each year so that Mom and Dad can be a couple again for a couple days.

At first it felt like a selfish thing to do, but after the first year was over and he was off the boob the grandparents offered to help make it happen we did it and I must say I think it’s a good thing to do. Having children is the most full time awesome thing that you can do, but that does not mean that you should not set aside just a couple days to spend with the one you fell in love with that led to it. The grandparents loved the opportunity to spend some extra time with the little guy too.

[CA renter]

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Funny, and true!

[CA renter]

[quote=sdsurfer]I wanted to chime in with something an older wiser person shared with me about a year into having my son.

Maybe I looked tired that day or something, but he told me that is was necessary to allow the grandparents or someone you trust to take care of the kid(s) for one weekend each year so that Mom and Dad can be a couple again for a couple days.

At first it felt like a selfish thing to do, but after the first year was over and he was off the boob the grandparents offered to help make it happen we did it and I must say I think it’s a good thing to do. Having children is the most full time awesome thing that you can do, but that does not mean that you should not set aside just a couple days to spend with the one you fell in love with that led to it. The grandparents loved the opportunity to spend some extra time with the little guy too.[/quote]

Totally agree with this.

Of course, we’ve only done it once in over 12 years. 🙁

[CA renter]

[quote=joec]I don’t think all dads aren’t disciplinarians…

My kid has told me multiple times that I’m not nice and mommy is nice…

I notice I also rarely swear so I have nothing to give up. My wife swears tons more than me and the other day, the kid asked what f*ck was.

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Ouch!

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Yes, some dads are disciplinarians, but the ones who are all “awesomeness and fun” tend not to be those dads.

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