2001-04-25 - 4:49 p.m.

3 plus 3 is 6

Today I spent the first hour of the workday writing a remarkably stupid database query. It grew to five lines long by the time I had it right, and it included data from four different tables. As I said on the office IRC channel, I can't decide if that makes me unclean or totally l33t.

Spent last night with Julie and Liralyn, as usual. Liralyn learned a new trick- she knows some basic addition now. Well, sometimes she does, and sometimes she works it out by counting on her fingers. I still think it's cool. I like her new eagerness to disobey us rather less, but Julie tells me that whenever a child goes through some major developmental change like potty training, that child wants to test all the old rules to see if they still apply.

On the plus side, I can handle giggling "come chase me, Daddy" disobedience more easily than I can handle the screaming and crying kind. Overall, there's no doubt in my mind that I got off pretty easy on this parenting gig.

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