Breeders
As I said a while back, Lisa and I had been in the process of finding and buying a new house. A few months ago, we found one, and moved. We left behind a bit of our furniture that we have had since we were in college, and since then have been in a rather involved process of finding furniture that we’re willing to live with for the next few decades or so. It’s been a rather painless process for me, since Lisa’s been doing all of it. I just have to stay alert for when new things show up. I still tend to miss lamps.
We were in the process of selling our townhouse; but after a few months we only had two offers, and both were significantly below our asking price. So we’ve taken it off the market for now, but will list it again in the spring. Fortunately for us it’s paid off, so other than property tax, it isn’t too big of an expense. We considered renting it but have friends who did that and their experience has convinced us that we’ll never rent anything ever.
Also, a couple months ago, after we moved, we found out that Lisa’s pregnant. We’re both really excited about it. We had been married for just less than a year when we found out, which doesn’t seem like a long enough time, but we had been together for seven years prior to that. So it seemed like a good time for us. We have our third ultrasound in a couple weeks when hopefully we’ll find out the baby’s gender. Lisa’s hoping for a girl, but she thinks it’s going to be a boy; I think it’s going to be a girl. Everything seems to be going well so far, and Lisa’s starting to show a little.
We haven’t started doing any of the baby-related things yet, like picking names, or setting up a nursery and buying a ton of crap that will probably end up being mostly unused. We did receive our first baby-related gift from my grandmother though, and Lisa’s grandmother is busy knitting booties and blankets. One of these days we’ll probably head over to Babies R Us and set up a baby registry, but probably not until after the new year.
Update 12/10: Lisa has clarified her position for me. She wants a girl eventually, but doesn’t care if the current one is a boy or girl.
November 29th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Hi Eric and Lisa, congrats to your impending release of a child process
Product inception was the fun part. The developement phase is starting. In the usual time frame, you’ll have the the product launch and learn what configuration options were setup in the build process. Unless you can hardcode some options with the help of a friendly geneticist? Anyway, the planet debian followers like me will look forward to a new photo on the blog when you have rested after the event. Otherwise, good luck with the house hunting and remember that to sell a house it may help to research techniques to improve the saleablity of a house: like new paint, fixing any minor floor and plumbing problem. removing furnature or other clutter in the house, etc. Cheers, Kev