There are some things that are the same when having a second child as a first, like having to get up in the middle of the night, the inevitable snarliness that accompanies the lack of sleep. There are a lot of differences too… with Caitlin we seemed to be very tentative about everything. When we changed her diaper, we slowly lifted the diaper off her, gently raised her whole bottom and placed the diaper positionally under her, pull it snugly over the legs, carefully tape the diaper down perfectly. With Christian it’s pop the diaper off, heel-kick it into the pail. Grab the legs like a turkey and slap the diaper under, pull the tape up and over, and you’re in and out in 12 seconds. I’m back to work tomorrow and not looking forward to it at all. Kelly’s mom is here for a couple weeks to help, and it’s awesome, she came when Caitlin was born too and it’s a big, big help. Later…

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Well, Kelly came home from the hospital yesterday afternoon, and Christian did as well, and we’re through the first night. I got a couple hours of sleep, scattered in patches, but this will be a long weekend, I’m sure. I also got into a mild spat with my dad, who thinks that “Christian” is not a masculine enough name. I basically told him two things: 1) – You named your kids what you wanted, I’ll do the same. and 2) I’m glad that you think that ‘Christ-like’ reflects ‘wuss’ to you. Maybe you should go see The Passion Of The Christ. I love my Dad a lot, but sometimes.. *shakes head*. Well, I have a lot on my plate today… cat naps, taking Caitlin to the park, making lunch, working on my Comic Collection Manager Software, mailing out some Mix CD’s to my sisters. I do more before 8am than most people do before 8:30!

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has been spawned. here are pics. Of my son, Christian Peter Byrne. :)

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Last night I went to the Sharks game with Kelly and Caitlin, and during the 2nd period Caitie started to get really tired, and whiny, and talking to Kelly, we decided to leave. What? Leave before the 3rd period starts? Yes. Would I have liked to stay? Of course. I didn’t buy tickets to only watch 2/3 of the game. But Caitlin was tired, she had to get up early, didn’t have a long nap, and it wasn’t fair to her. So I made the ‘responsible’ choice, to take her home before she melted down. Then, as I arrived home and carried her sleeping into her bedroom and laid her down, I realized that I felt really good about it. I felt good for making the right decision. I did the responsible thing, and didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything. Weird eh?

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I’m a programmer, a code monkey, and most of my day is spent scrambling up and down the code tree. Today though I had a really good day. I found a bug yesterday before I left and didn’t think much of it, even though it was crashing the application that I was using *and* the IDE. I transistioned to using my Mac laptop for development last week because my wife is due any day now, and I need to be able to do real development from my house for the next month or so. Anyways, I upgraded to the newest version of the IDE that we use in house, it’s called IntelliJ and it’s quite good, as far as IDE’s go, and to the latest JDK from Apple. Then I tried to perform some basic functions with our application and.. Boom. it crashed. Then I tried to trace it a bit, and the debugger not only couldn’t catch the exception, but my whole IDE application crashed. So I went back and tried to attack it from a different way. Slowly I worked around it until I could find where the problem was. It appeared to be coming from inside some of the java files provided by Apple. This makes it very difficult because while Sun provides the source for it’s java files, Apple does not. So I had to take the files one at a time, move them over to my old windows machine, de-compile them, reverse engineer their code to find out what it was doing. One file, track it. Make a change. Run. Crash. Decompile another file. Look for problems. 5 hours of this. Finally I found the problem, cleverly concealed. Then I reproduced it, made a little test program that illustrated it and sent it off to a friend at apple. Hopefully they’ll fix it. but I feel.. invincible.

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