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This was a fun story because it actually tried to be somewhat funny. People running around, missing each other, that sort of thing. Just a lot of goofing around. So, for a First Doctor story this was pretty good. I mostly enjoyed it. And we got to see how the great fire of Rome happened. (It was of course the Doctor’s fault.) Four episodes, 25 minutes each. Probably would have been more than fine with half of that. But you know, that’s how old Doctor Who is. I’m still anxious to hurry up and get to late 70’s and early 80’s Who, but we’re going through these slowly enough that they keep releasing more of the older ones before we get to the newer ones… so we’re still often in the 60’s, although we’ve made occasional forays into the early 70’s.
 This couch is only a few years old, but it was heavily used. It is stained. It is torn. There is a spring sticking out of the bottom. We replaced it awhile ago and it is now in our garage. With a little TLC it could probably be OK for some uses. We won’t be giving it that TLC though. It will be heading to the dump later this week… unless someone wants it. If anybody out there wants this and can take it away from where it is now in the Newport Hills area of Bellevue, WA contact me at abulsme@abulsme.com to make pick up arrangements. Otherwise, off to the dump the poor thing goes.
(I’ll also be posting this to Craigslist and Freecycle.)
Yes, it is time for the now semi-traditional interview with Alex as he turns another month older. This clip was taken just under two hours before Alex officially turned five months old at 21:04 UTC today (that’s 1:04 PM Pacific, 4:04 PM Eastern), or a little over two hours ago as I post this. (Remember, months are 30.4368499 days long or so… :-) ) Wow, has it really been five months already? I definitely already can’t remember what life was like without him around. :-)
It was close yesterday, but as of today based on the overall trend line for Alex’s mass… Alex has doubled in mass! Anyway, it looks like he is doubling every 148 days. Assuming an exponential growth pattern… His mass will exceed my own when he is 1.8 years old. His mass will exceed that of the Earth when he is 32.6 years old. Such a big boy! (Note that this is of course dependent on the exact methodology I use for drawing the trend line, but I like how I draw the line, so I’ll stick to it! It is better than just looking at today’s reading vs the first one right after he was born… human mass fluctuates and there is non-trivial experimental imprecision, so it is important to look at trends over a bunch of data points, not individual readings. And I’ll be sticking to the idea that his growth will be exponential, even though you can clearly see that the shape of the curve is not exponential. I’m sure that is just an anomaly, and it will become exponential any time now. :-) )  Must embarrass the teenagers by posting pics. It is a parent’s job.
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