Baby Daddy

Born 24 August 2014 at 1:15PM CST:

Gwendolyn Rose Lively. 8lbs, 1oz, 20″ tall.

Our last child, and the first girl. Hopefully she’ll wind up looking *something* like me, unlike the boys.

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Hopefully this explains why I’ve been so busy, and the blog has been silent.

Also, Wyatt started kindergarten yesterday! We basically dropped him off at school at 7:30AM (remember when school started at 9:00? WTF?), went back home to grab a few things, then headed to the hospital for the delivery.

Crazy day.

In other news, since getting RIF’d from ARM at the start of June, I’ve interviewed with:

Google (I am NOT moving to California, and the Chapel Hill office is small enough that hiring is rare.) (Note: PLEASE do not ask me about the interview questions. They were nice enough to fly me to Mountain View, so I figure I should respect the lengthy, excruciatingly-detailed NDA I had to sign pre-interview. Also, I have no desire to be sued.)

IBM Watson Labs (well, kinda – there was a lot of portfolio talk and I got to interact with some seriously smart people)

… and a local game company that shall remain nameless until I receive the results of the seven hour(!) interview I had last week.

This is actually a great time (personally) to be unemployed. I get to pick Wyatt up from school, spend a lot of time at the hospital with Audrey and Gwen, and, in general, do all the things I want to do.

Life does not suck at the moment.