Eriko and I witnessed Jerry take several steps on his own today. I came home early from work and caught Eriko and Jerry in time before they headed to the QA community center for some time in the playroom. I joined them and it was a lot of fun. Jerry is loads of fun to be around. He is demanding - if I don’t pay attention to him he’ll come up and bite my leg!

Jerry said his first word - kinda. Almost. Eriko says it doesn’t count if he doesn’t know what he’s saying. In addition, it probably doesn’t count if it one can only recognize it as a word because they heard what I said first. Even then, “da” “su” sounds a lot like “dishes” if “dishes” is what you want to hear. =) We have this picture book of zoo animals that Jerry likes.

I just rebooted spike and belle for the first time in 435 days. I upgraded the kernel and operating system. Here’s hoping for another 435 day run…

This is the classic tale of a totalitarian regime, taken to the utmost extreme. At times it was hard to get through, but strangely fascinating.

Today, Jerry turned 11 months old. Check out his exciting eleventh month!

I let someone down yesterday. He asked me to keep something to myself and I didn’t. There was a problem associated with the topic and he credited my leak with the cause - then he called me on leaking the information. I am fascinated to watch myself go through the 5 stages of grief, both because my emotions seem to map so well to this theory and because I am able to observe my own behavior so clearly.