John’s Blog

Well as anyone who reads this blog and/or follows me on Twitter knows, my wife recently gave birth to our son. It has been an amazing and life changing experiance so far. He was born almost three weeks ago. We spent the first week in the hospital (he had to be monitored), and have been home for just over two weeks now.

So far things have been going great, he is doing well, eating, gaining weight, growing, and is pretty advanced for his age as we are told be his pediatrician.

I have however been struggling with balancing out his need for us to be there for him 24/7, with my need or more accuratly obligation to spending at least some time online. So far since he was born, most of my online time has been limited to posting pictures of him for family and friends out of state to see, and answering only very important emails. I really haven’t been twittering much, or doing much else for that matter.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love my son, love spending time with him, and taking care of him. But at the same time realize lately that I need to get back into a routine of getting the things I need done online. Too many emails are sitting in my inbox unanswered, and too many projects that do need my attention, not to mention I am still looking for work.

So what I am trying to do now is create some sort of balance. One that allows me to have the time to take care of things online that need my attention. As well as time to spend with and take care of my son. It’s coming along slowly and hopefully over the next few weeks I will be able to get a routine down that works for all of us.

I plan to post more here on the blog, as well as get back to twittering as often as I had been. It’s all a matter of finding the time.

Seems like every time I resolve to get some things done in my personal life it never happens. If you follow this blog you’ll remember me saying not to long ago that I was looking to get web hosting and get my blog on my own domain again as well as put up some sites I used to run. Well I got about as far as looking at a few hosting companies and it hasn’t gone far from there. Between things at work getting even more hectic, and the fact that I am the best man in a wedding this Sunday, as well as car shopping for my wife, I have almost no down time…and it’s starting to show. I really need some time off. In the last two years other than having Sunday’s off and the occasional holiday I haven’t had much for time off. I have already lost a weeks vacation by not taking it, and I have one week left that expires in December. I had hoped to take that soon and give myself a little break. But the person getting married (who’s wedding I am in and has been nothing but a headache) works for me, and he is taking ten days off for his honeymoon. So it looks like there is no break in site for me. Maybe around Thanksgiving I can finally get to relax. That is if the holidays don’t drag me down with all the rushing and stress.
Well I guess I just needed to vent a little. But now it’s back to work…it’s 9:20pm and yes I am at home and still working…seems like it will never end.

One good note though…Dunkin Donuts has come out with a pumpkin spice latte that is just as good as Starbucks…which is good news for me since there are almost no Starbucks around here, but Dunkin Donuts are everywhere.