Today I am going to work for the first time in 10 days. At the beginning of my 9 days off (5 days of leave sandwiched in between two weekends = 9 days), I felt like that amount of time would be forever! Not the case. Isn't it always this way? I feel like these 9 days have been just about the fastest 9 days of my life.
John had his much-anticipated "2-month" check-up last week. I say "2-month" because the visit was late as originally scheduled (2 months plus a week or two), and then it was re-scheduled from the previous week because the doctor was out sick. So he was closer to 3 months than two when we went last week, but we're still calling it his 2-month check-up. What did we find out? Nothing we didn't already know: we've got a healthy, robust baby! The numbers:
13 lbs, 6 oz. (!) - in the 75th percentile
25 inches long (!!) - in the 90th percentile
John is a big kid! When I see other parents around with babies who are about the same age as John, it almost invariably turns out that they are about half his size. I think that he is going to end up being much taller than his daddy! (currently ~6' tall)
In othe news, there was recently an important addition to the iTunes music collection. Metallica has released its music for sale there. Upon dicovering this, I immediately "corrected myself" for allowing a gigantic hole in my music collection to exist - I purchased "Kill 'Em All" posthaste. I have owned this record in the past, but I think that it was on cassette (in other words, it's been a while), never on CD. Now I've got it, although it seems to me that it doesn't have the complete original track listing. It seems to be missing "Am I Evil" from the original track listing. It attempts to make up for this by including two bonus live tracks, "The Four Horsemen" and "Whiplash," purportedly recorded during a 1989 concert in Seattle.
Finally (for today), I've been reading a book by Dean Karnazes recently. Titled "Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner," it tells about how he went from a work-obsessed San Francisco corporate ladder-climber to a crazy guy who runs marathons for fun (those are his easy days). When he really wants to challenge himself he goes 100+ miles at a time! This is mind-boggling - how the heck does he do that? Read the book to find out. It's certainly motivating to me in my modest-by-comparison endurance training. If this guy can go 135 miles through Death Valley in the middle of summer, I can probably motivate myself to get out the door for a 10-mile run in Hawaii. I hope to finish the book today, then post a review on Amazon.com (see all my reviews here).
