Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
1. I am utterly and completely exhausted. Well, not quite. It’s not like some of those long multi-day or multi-week grinds during the Army, but I’m definitely fatigued. It’s okay. Totally worth it. In every regard. When my wife smiles while she’s holding him, or he gives me one of those happy little sighs while [...]
Playing with LEGO®. He’s a few years away yet, but man I cannot tell you how cool it will be. I have a couple of huge bins of the stuff in storage in the basement for him, and you know, as an adult, I should have an excuse for buying the newer stuff. “It’s for [...]
Dear Son, Well, you gave us a good scare. I want to document this as much as possible before the details get too jumbled in my head. By now, you know you were born eight weeks early, but the story does a great job of illustrating the moments of humor and joy even when things [...]
Items accomplished in Janaury: 1 Total items accomplished: 27/101 Percentage complete: 26.7% Items Completed in January: 2. Have a kid with Kate. Holy crap, something on this list got done ahead of schedule! Edwin decided to join the world eight weeks early. So far, so good. He’s healthy and growing, and while he’s a lot [...]
So for those of you that don’t keep up with me on Facebook or Twitter, I’m happy (and nervous) to announce that Edwin Cooper Bailey joined the world 8 weeks early — at 4:19 a.m. on Friday, January 13th. He tipped the scales at 4 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 18″ long. His Apgars score [...]
Non-Fiction: The Four-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss Ferriss left me thinking a lot about hacking in 2011. Not just one’s body, but everything. I didn’t put much of this into practice in 2011, but for 2012, I’ll be trying more of it. Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk Left me saying “fuck yeah!” and inspired me [...]
You’ll notice that there was no update from October through December. October was a crazy-assed month and I didn’t really accomplish much, and it only got worse. Here’s how it went: Items accomplished in October-December: 1 Total items accomplished: 27/101 Percentage complete: 26.7% Items Completed in October-December: 61. Have at least three months’ of salary [...]
Kate Bailey. She of the wifey-ness! Her take-charge attitude of 2011 was amazing, especially considering that she spent half the year pregnant. We bought a house, moved across town, and began preparing for the arrival of Edwin Cooper Bailey (ship date in Q1 of 2012), and throughout it all, she was on her A-game. Very [...]
I admit it: I’m way behind the curve on my recaps of 2011. Thus far, all I’ve managed to post is the video games recap. Things have been a bit busy. Expect posts on the following topics: People Who Inspired Me in 2011 My 2011: Books An Update on the 101 Things Project A Plan [...]
