All I can say is that, parenting is not as easy (or as fun) as it appears.  Nearly eleven months on, the eye bags on both our faces are obvious.  I think we look really tired (but happy nonetheless, pardon the cliche) in this picture.

Title of e-mail recieved at 1646 hours yesterday -

help…. !

And title of e-mail recieved at 1904 hours yesterday -

help…. ! btw, wld be grateful if u could revert to me on this by tonight or early tomorrow morning, even if it is an interim reply based on what you know thus far… cos I need to submit a first draft of the paper soon… :(   thanks v much.

Considering that my wife bills over $300 $400 per hour, and that I’m not even paid that much per day, these idiots are grossly over-working us.  Or we are grossly under-paid.

Well, both.

I told my boss that there are certain departments whose entire staff I would like to line up in a row and shoot.  He has no objections.

A cool new edition of Optimus Prime is on sale, and the beloved asked if I wanted one for my coming birthday.  Apparently it would set her back by about 200 bucks or so.

I thought that 31 is a little old to be playing with toys so I declined (and I’m pretty sure the day would come when Jed would destroy it).  I suggested getting a Crumpler bag instead, which I suppose makes me that little bit older than a kid.