There is one thing that is most difficult about being a stay-at-home dad. It’s not giving up the $100k/year salary; not the isolation; not suppressing my career goals; not dealing with stereotypes; not spending endless hours crouched over a play blanket. No, the single hardest thing is not having boobs. When Ruby cries, chances are [...]
Archive for June, 2006
My Kindgom for A…
June 27, 2006
When does discipline start?
June 23, 2006
Kate and I have taken Ruby out to restaurants since she was a week or two old, and she’s generally been pretty happy just to hang out in her sling and watch the forks go by. But this isn’t really true any more — if we have wanted to take her to a restaurant lately, [...]
Time to Convert Another One?
June 21, 2006
Kate and I did the server shuffle a few weeks ago. Kate’s desktop computer became our mail/web server, and our web/mail server became a file server, and Kate got a new Mac Mini to use as her desktop computer. We started setting up the file server yesterday — formatting the old computer and installing Windows XP [...]
Unity Provides Strength
June 21, 2006
I’ve been watching a lot of the World Cup this year. I usually watch one or two matches every day while I’m feeding Ruby. My favorite team so far is, believe it or not, Angola. Since I don’t know anything about Angola, here’s some choice tidbits extracted out of wikipedia: Angola, like many sub-Saharan nations, [...]
Diaper Service, 1 week later
June 13, 2006
The first two days of diaper service were horrible. We suddenly had to pay attention to this whole other thing that could make Ruby upset. Instead of food & boredeom, we now had food & boredom & wet diaper, and it took us a while to remember to check that last item. The new diapers [...]
Sociable
June 8, 2006
I’m not much of a social person. I like to work alone, I’m not much good at parties, and small talk leaves me at a complete loss. Now that I’ve got Ruby attached to my person most of the time that I’m out in public, I’m having to interact with strangers more often. They want to come up and remark [...]
Defend us from what?
June 7, 2006
I would like to officially state that my marriage to Kate is in no way threatened by the marriage of one person to another person of the same sex. If your marriage is threatened by two men you’ll never meet saying “I do”, then you and your spouse should probably visit a marriage counsellor.
Review: Sony babyCall Rechargeable
June 6, 2006
The Sony babyCall Rechargeable is a baby monitor. We bought it because it has a rechargeable battery-operated mode, meaning I can wander out in the garden while Ruby sleeps inside. It has a voice-activation mode, several channels to choose from, and an alarm if the receiver gets out of range of the transmitter. It also [...]
Review: Bob Revolution 2006
June 5, 2006
As a “Welcome-to-the-world” gift, my parents bought Ruby (and Kate and I) a Bob Revolution 2006 jogging stroller. In “Mesa Orange”, thank you very much. I use this stroller almost exclusively for jogging. I run about 5 miles with it, several times per week. I run on city sidewalks, a paved jogging path, and gravel [...]
Landfill vs Clean Water
June 5, 2006
Today our first deployment of cotton diapers arrived. We’ve signed up with a diaper service that will drop off fresh diapers twice each week and take away the soiled ones, never to be seen again. Or so I like to think. I’ve actually been fairly happy with disposal diapers, but being the conscientious earth lovers that [...]