So I've had two events lately that required an update to my car stickers. The first was the addition of my new daughter to the family in the beginning of January. The second came when our junker car blew a piston and required a full engine replacement. Jenny and I had no desire to spend that much on a junker, so we purchased a 2007 Honda Pilot for ( Read more... )

Sarah Alexandra[1] Vassilaros was born on Friday at 6:30 pm. She weighed 7 lb, 9 oz and was 20" long. She is already calmer than her big brother and has slept on her own for several hours. Granted, since she came as a c-section, the drugs coursing through Jenny's body may well be affecting Sarah as well, but even with that being true, she's still ( Read more... )

My brother has been working in the healthcare industry for several years. He's one of probably three people worldwide that has actually read Obamacare from beginning to end. He distilled this experience into a short ebook entitled Health Care Reform For Humans. It's apolitical and explains in very clear terms what health care is really about and ( Read more... )

Some excellent additions!

13) Toga
14) Sen
15) Moany
15.5) Moany al'Vassilaros
16) P (just the initial - goes well with my career choice - unless someone needs Thpeech Sarah P, in which case they'd need a different profession altogether :) )
17) Band (obscure, but funny!)

Here's two more, added by my midwife this weekend:

10) Sly (After I told her all the jokes I had so far, she looked at me and said, "Sarahsly?" :D)
11) Nade

And another one by a different friend -a bit of a stretch, but still quite (meta)clever!

12) Brelle (cerebral)

Keep them coming!

So it's official - we are having a girl (due Dec 29), and her first name will be Sarah.

Of course, being who I am, There Must Be Jokes.

I am totally open for suggestions, but here's what we've got so far for middle names (most of these require you to say her first and middle name together for the pun to work):

1. Bella (one of my favs and quite (meta) ( Read more... )

Holy cow, a lot of stuff has gone down ( Read more... )

So the extra  kids are leaving next Monday, so we are going to try for a good beach visit this Friday. Since the last time we tried, we were unpleasantly surprised by stinkin' 25 MPH winds once we got there, I checked this morning and found 15 MPH winds for Friday. I'm hoping that 1) it'll just gust that high without being a constant presence and 2 ( Read more... )

So after a long dearth of  game days, I finally held one this last Saturday. The last Game Day was February of last year, so I haven't had one in almost 18 months. Since Saturdays off were few and far between, it wasn't until my client load dropped a bit that I could justify spending a day playing games instead of being with my family. I had several ( Read more... )

I'm a trainer for my job, and we were supposed to start a large new hire class last Monday. However, the contracting agencies screwed up, and this class of nine came in pieces at a time. The first wave arrived on Wednesday, the next wave came on Friday, and the last wave came on Monday ( Read more... )