So.
It's been at least five months since I last blogged about anything significant. Let me use my last day of vacation to do some catching up.

First off, Ian is a great, great baby. He's happy, and healthy, and a cute little troublemaker. He's generally sleeping well (though we might be at the start of an expected sleep regression, and getting all three of his seemingly required naps to happen is a challenge on any given day), and he can get to sleep on his own, which has improved the quality of all of our lives. He's pulling up on everything, and occasionally cruises along things about a foot at a time. He's mostly army-crawling, though occasionally does short, deliberate stretches of full crawling.

Work-wise, I've finished my work on The Beatles: Rock Band, and I'm extremely proud of the game. New projects are starting up, and I'm sorting out how exactly I'll be involved in them. Harmonix is a great place to work, and I'm lucky to be there.

Beyond that, um, I'll just show some baby pictures.

Designer E-mail #2 is Up.

Dan has compiled another set of designer thoughts on designer things. There's some commenting going on in the post on Dan's blog, so instead of copying it here, I'm going to send you there.

E3!

Hey --

DanT, fellow designer and Harmonix rabble-rouser, has gotten a bunch of the HMX designers (myself included) to do a design roundtable.

You can find it here.

P.S. I promise there'll be more baby stories and pictures soon. As my co-workers can attest, there are plenty to go around.

I should write something.

It's been a pretty good holiday season, more tiring for all the Ian-wrangling, but more mellow in many respects. We traveled and did less this year, and Ian was charming and relatively meltdown-free during all this time.

This is the time for profound thoughts as one year ends and the next begins, but I seem to be in short supply. I can't wait for next year, when Ian will be a lot more invested in the holiday proceedings.

Take care, all.

Merry Christmas.

Not so much of an update.

We're busy, Ian's cute as hell but he's still having some trouble sleeping enough. But Kim is dilligently working on various strategies to improve things, while under self-imposed pressure and far too little sleep. She won't accept the compliments, but I'm really impressed and proud of her.

In the meantime, here's a set of pictures from a couple of weeks ago.


(I know you all mainly tune in for the pictures.)

This Just In.

Ian really likes our ceiling fan.

I repeat: IAN REALLY LIKES OUR CEILING FAN.

That is all.