I’ve been sick for the past two weeks! That and trying to keep the amount of crying down to as little as possible (yeah yeah, I mean the baby, not me) has made it a little challenging. Poor PSB has been averaging three hours of sleep a night. Horrible! I’m getting between four and seven, depending on the crying factor, and how late I can manage to stay up while letting PSB sleep. . .

On a lighter note, I’ve finally played through Uncharted 2, which was really really super fun. I’m going to go back and find one thing that I didn’t find, then on to inFamous. I need to finish up Brutal Legend as well, and I sure have a whole lot of Demon’s Souls left. And the God of War III reviews have been absolutely stellar. I can’t wait!

Here’s a bunch of pictures of our little dumpling.

Our little non-stop-crying non-stop-eating will-not-go-to-sleep-at-night dumpling.

Awwwwwwwwwwwww.

http://picasaweb.google.com/twinc723/Harry?feat=directlink

Well, PolenBaby #1, anyway.

Meet Harold Martin Polenberg, aka Harry, born at 7:03 pm on February 17th. He weighed eight pounds, five ounces, and was twenty and a half inches long. Baby is cute and cranky (just like his dad), Mom had to have a c section to get him out and had a rough go of it in general, but is feeling much better. (I would like to blog about the last 48 hours in general, but I think I should clear it with her first in case there’s stuff I would want to say that she’d rather not have put on the blog.)

I am stating for the record that while I will likely put up a lot of pictures, there is no way in hell I am blogging about what kind of baby food is his favorite, or how many poops he takes. Not a fricking chance. This blog will continue to be me bitching about poker and work, and funny links, and awesome pictures of Hamilton, who has lately been doing this really cute thing where he sticks his head into a mug and makes a low sound just so it will echo in it - I will have to try and get it on camera. But I digress. I will be a doting father, but not a dolt, at least when it comes to blogging.

I’ve had about five hours of sleep over the last two nights, so I’m going to go pass out now.

and nothing is going right here today at the office. As I just kvetched on Facebook, while I was in the middle of doing three different things in three different programs, my computer decided to randomly reboot, making me have to wait for it to come back up and running before starting everything over. I can’t look up information on various internal programs - they’re all not working. One of my managers is acting like a two year old because a reservation I correctly made for him does not list the exact room type he wants, and another hotel tried to put him in a room with a double bed. Perish the thought. Unless you’re having an orgy while on your business trip, and I guess anything is possible, what freaking difference does it make if you get two double beds or one king or queen? You’re a skinny man, you can fit in a double bed. I have better things to do than explain to you that hotels do not guarantee room type. I know this. I worked in hospitality for years. Fuckface.

PSB had some pre-contractions last night while watching Avatar. It might have been that PolenBaby #1 just wanted to ride on the back of a birdie. We will do our best to not have him sit on Hamilton.

Full Tilt Poker Game #18139673692: Table Mercury - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold’em - 1:57:55 ET - 2010/02/03
Seat 1: B34N ($78.10)
Seat 2: KiffCroker ($68.90)
Seat 3: DoctorSuckout ($76.85)
Seat 4: kvazavr ($49.35)
Seat 5: JFizzer22 ($102.30)
Seat 6: Bigquigg18 ($160)
Seat 7: KGC05 ($60.15)
Seat 8: TigerFletch ($23.90)
Seat 9: speedster12487 ($65.45)
speedster12487 posts the small blind of $0.25
B34N posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DoctorSuckout [Ad Ah]
KiffCroker folds
DoctorSuckout raises to $1.50
kvazavr folds
JFizzer22 folds
Bigquigg18 folds
KGC05 folds
TigerFletch folds
speedster12487 folds
B34N calls $1
*** FLOP *** [As Js Ac]
B34N checks
DoctorSuckout checks
*** TURN *** [As Js Ac] [5d]
B34N checks
DoctorSuckout checks
*** RIVER *** [As Js Ac 5d] [Kc]
B34N checks
DoctorSuckout bets $75.35, and is all in
B34N folds
Uncalled bet of $75.35 returned to DoctorSuckout
DoctorSuckout mucks
DoctorSuckout wins the pot ($3.10)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3.25 | Rake $0.15
Board: [As Js Ac 5d Kc]
Seat 1: B34N (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 2: KiffCroker didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 3: DoctorSuckout collected ($3.10), mucked
Seat 4: kvazavr didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 5: JFizzer22 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 6: Bigquigg18 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 7: KGC05 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 8: TigerFletch (button) didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 9: speedster12487 (small blind) folded before the Flop

Have a wonderful day! Hope your eyes are all better soon!

(The Polenparents are dealing with a horrible case of conjunctivitis, which they are just starting to get over. They are no longer contagious, at least. . .)

and belated Happy Birthday to Twin D!!!!!

Here’s to you, kids.

I’m home sick today, but my main manager has given me a way for me to check my email from home, via a SecurID. I checked in at 9:00 am, and again at 12:30 pm, thinking I couldn’t have missed much. Boy, was I wrong.

Last week I was asked to set up a meeting by a manager I don’t support, for a bunch of people I don’t really work with, because another one of my managers used to be part of the project. It was a teleconference and web meeting, with appropriate links and dial in information, that I distributed properly. The manager of the meeting and the two other managers were sent all the proper leader codes separately in their own email, marked “important”.

At 10:00 am this morning, when the meeting was supposed to start, I get an email from the manager, as well as six of the attendees, asking why the teleconference hasn’t started. The manager is also asking where the leader codes are.

Oh, that’s funny, sir, because I SENT THEM TO YOU DAYS AGO. Maybe check your email? Did you think that maybe I might have already sent them to you, in an email marked “important”? I wasn’t supposed to run the meeting, just set it up, which I did. Now how about you open your freaking eyes and look at what I sent you?

It’s just so irritating when you make something so easy for someone, and they still mess it up, and then you’re the one who looks like they made a mistake.

Idiots.

Now I’m going back to the couch so the bird will stop yelling at me.