i have started experimenting with the various social media sites. I noticed the only real reach I had on Facebook was when I posted pics of my son or my cats. On Twitter, it is my random nonsense that gets the most interest.

So, I have decided to try posting only links to Facebook, most of them political/social in nature. Twitter gets retweets and a few random thoughts. Instagram is getting food pics.

In the past three days I have had one single comment on Facebook. That’s okay though. I also removed the Facebook app from my phone. That has made the experiment easier. I keep Twitter because I get news and traffic through there. 

I am giving myself a week but may increase it if I see interesting results.

So it has been a couple of months since leaving my job and I think I have kept too busy to notice much. I have been working on my parents place and spending time with family. I have found that I enjoy watching a couple of cooking shows, but that’s about it. Let’s check back in on my feelings in a month or so. Maybe I will have slowed down by then. Maybe not.

So yeah. I went and had a baby seven months ago. Whoops. Where does the time go? He’s a little ham and a half and already has an unhealthy obsession with electronics. This should be fun!

In other big news, I left my job! It was a tough decision but also the easiest one. It hasn’t even been a week, so I can’t say much more than that. Right now it seems like I just took a week off, except there is no possibility of checking my work emails! I’m just going to take it one day at a time and enjoy every minute I am with my little guy.

I of course went in to labor two weeks early and therefore the last of the project had to be done without me. Just thinking about it, I was really separated from it for so long that I suppose I developed a sort of post-partum issue with it. I felt detached from the project when I went back from maternity leave. I didn’t have any issues with the baby, just the project. I don’t know why, but I find that amusing. I probably shouldn’t. Go figure.

You would think that I’m not posting much because I’m pregnant and busy with that. But you’d be wrong. Honestly, work is taking up most of my waking hours. We are about to launch a new version of my employer’s site and well, as part of the project I’ve taken on a couple of full time job roles on top of my normal job.

This has made for far too many 12+ hour days. This week I worked from home but managed to work more, like 14 hour days. Let me give you a bit of scale for this site. It’s one domain with what I can only describe as 56 microsites. If you can call them micro. They’re full scale sites within a site. It’s murder! Thankfully I’m not doing the content (anymore, because at one point, I was), but I am doing the design and structure and loading the content to make sure the design and structure works.

At the rate I’m working, my maternity leave will almost be a vacation. I’m trying to think of it that way. I’ll be spending time with my little man. Speaking of the little man. We did come up with a name. He is no longer going by Kermie. Instead, he shall be William! I’ve been writing off and on at a little site I setup for him. It was just somewhere to write the stuff that’s been going on. Check it out if you’re interested in the baby thing.

Sometimes I forget the things I know. No, really. The other day we were watching a movie and there was an entire scene that was in Italian, with no subtitles. Oddly enough, I remembered the Italian I learned when I was a kid and was able to follow along. It  reminds me the time when my aunt signed something to me because she didn’t want her kids to hear her say it out loud. I actually remembered enough ASL to know what she was signing!

Now, if I start hearing Vietnamese and somehow understand, that’s going to be just plain crazy. I learned that over 25 years ago and only the basics!

Well, my last post was a while ago and it was quite a downer. I haven’t felt like posting much since then. I find myself working a lot more than is probably healthy, but I’m going to be changing that. Why? Because I’m having a baby. After 14 years of marriage, we’ve taken the plunge. We’re expecting a boy in March. I’ll try to avoid the ins and outs of pregnancy because let’s be honest, there is plenty of that out there already. If I post, it will be what it usually is; a rambling of words coming from my mind to my fingertips. You’ve been warned!