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Cian doesn't have a set pattern everyday, but he comes close. I thought it might be fun to share what his typical day looks like. pending...
I was thinking tonight about what I want to make of this blog. I talked to Granddaddy Mulvaney and Bebe (sorry Dad, I think Cian will be saying Mom's name long before he masters yours) tonight early in my downtime here at work.
(For any who may not know the work schedule at my job is 7PM - 7:30AM, three days a week. Those three days rotate every month but they are always in a row. During my 12.5 hour shift, I have 4-6 hours of downtime. It is in large part the reason this blog exists.)
After talking to my parents I figured out that I didn't have a clear explanation of why I'm doing this website. I tried to explain to my Dad what I wanted it to be, but it came out muddled and ill-defined. I think perhaps the reason for that is that I don't have all the reasons for the website nailed down just yet. I have been thinking about this website for a while now. Wondering how to do it, how to learn the code, how to stick to it, how to make it relevant to my audience, and how to make it something special for Cian, as well as everybody else. Whatever else this website may be or become, I'm going to try very hard to avoid doing what I normally do with these types of projects... which is to think about what I could do instead of simply doing it. While I don't necessarily have a plan for the rest of it, the important part was to get started. Richard has helped me learn that lesson.
There are certain questions that will have to be answered as I go along. For instance, as I'm writing this entry tonight, I'm actively forced to decide who this website is for. Who am I writing these very words to? I have never blogged on the internet before. The writing in this entry and the ones prior on this page constitue the most writing I've done in a long long while. Those of you who have gotten a letter recently know the truth behind this. All zero of you.
I used to write a lot more back in my college-aged years and I miss doing it. I feel guilty sometimes for not doing it. I certainly feel guilty for not writing letters to anyone very much anymore, not that I was ever particularly good at doing so. But as I think about my life now and my new responsiblities as a father, I think it is about time I get started writing again, for myself and for Cian. There are several people I think about writing to all that time. Charlie is number one the list. Hi Charlie, I know your wedding anniversary is this month but I can't remember the day. I'm sorry for that. Regardless... Happy Anniversary. See, that's no so hard. :)
The point of all this is that I want to take this site seriously. I want Cian to know what his father was like when he was a baby and this might be a good way to do it. I also want to share with my family and friends the absolute joy that it has been to raise our son. Sarah and I laugh together more than ever before, and we were doing just fine in that department before Cian came along. With Cian approaching his first birthday and with a brother or sister on the way, the story that is our lives will continue to be shaped by unseen joys as well as challenges ahead. In short, I know that not too many people will ever see this website, but I care a great deal about those that will and it is for these people that I am making this webblog available. Take care all.
Sorry for the lengthy ruminations. I'll try to keep this kind of rambling post to a minimum. But no promises, okay?
I have been reading up quite a bit on web coding and my brain is getting fried. Time for some blog entries.
Cian did something stupendous today (actually by today I mean the 4th of December). After I got home from work Sarah and I were lounging on the chair and couch respectively while Cian was standing up holding on to the end table between us. While we chatted, or zoned out in my case (badoom, pss!), I handed Cian my security badge from work. He had been playing with it the day before and he likes it a lot. It is one of those badges you clip to your belt and a retractable cord lets you pull the security card to a card reader to unlock a door before it zooms back to its spindle. Cian was holding the security card in one hand and decided he wanted to hold the retractable spindle in his other hand. As Sarah and I watched with silent fascination knowing what must be about to happen, Cian slowly took his hand off the end table grasped the other part of my security badge. For approximately two seconds Cian stood. Unaided by anything by anything other than his utter fixation on my security badge.
After we picked our jaws off the floor we had a good laugh at the little guy. I'm quite sure he doesn't realize what he did, but Mommy and Daddy know, and we couldn't be more tickled.
This video was taken a few minutes after the big event. (This is also a test of a video service.)