The Announcement

Thursday, 15 July 2010

You might think I've been derelict in my blogging duties over the past several weeks, and you'd be largely mistaken. I know that the last public posts was from our vacation in early May, but I've actually been busy writing super-top-secret posts in the week since. Posts that were marked as super-top-secret for a very good reason. The fact of the matter is that we here at Team Soell have been working on a special project that required a little patience before we were comfortable discussing it with everyone. I'm sure by now all my vague talk of super secrets has spoken loud and clear, but if you're still not sure about what's going on, I'll spell it out for you: Team Soell is having a baby!

Captain Bojangles, as we've come to refer to him as, made himself known while we were on vacation with my family and we've spent the last several weeks freaking out, reading about babies and wondering where we're actually going to put the little guy. We're only at about ten weeks right now, so we do have a little time to figure all that out. We've also spent the time trying to think of funny/clever ways to announce The Captain's presence to everyone. In fact, you may have actually come across this post via one of these methods. Here, in no particular order, are our top five ideas:

Craigslist

While she's never been the caffeine junkie that I am, January has definitely been lamenting the caffeine embargo that has been placed on her. Just the other day, we came across this gigantic can of Monster Energy drink that she was saving up for her next wedding photography shoot. Guess she can't use that anymore... better just sell it on Craigslist.

Flickr

Expecting a child for the first time, we're not really sure how to interpret everything going on in January's body. We both got a little freaked out around week six and asked if we could do an early ultrasound to make sure everything was ok, and our doctor was super awesome about it. We were able to get a look at the little guy that afternoon, and even heard the heartbeat for the first time. Here's a picture of the ultrasound strip we got after that first appointment.

Sono

LinkedIn

I've been told that being a parent is the most important job I'll ever have. Accordingly, I have updated my LinkedIn profile to include the fact that I am not only responsible for the development and maintenance of several high-traffic web sites and the ongoing stability of a multi-million dollar outreach and donations database, but I'm also responsible for the health and well-being of miniature human being. You can expect progress reports to be a regular part of my annual review.

Facebook

I actually don't think I could do this one better than my friends Liz and Ben "Chalupa" Boltz did. I was one of the lucky few that was told in advance of the general announcement, but I remember being very impressed at the cleverness of Liz's Facebook announce. This was back in the height of the "How well do you know me" meme that was taking over the Internet and Liz put together one that at first glance looked pretty standard, but smack in the middle was this gem:

When do I want to have kids?

a) Sometime after grad school
b) Never
c) In a couple of years
d) I'm pregnant and due in January

I'm really curious to know how many people guessed correctly.

Foursquare + Twitter

I'm a complete Foursquare addict, and I even "checked in" to the OBGYN's office the first time we went. I was careful not to check in the second time, as it would have proudly announced to all my Foursquare and Twitter friends that I was now the mayor of Professionals for Women's Health. And although we didn't actually have an appointment today, I thought it appropriate to go ahead and retroactively get that mayorship locked down.

So there's the big news! We're having a baby! As I said, I've got several older posts written up and I'll be publishing them over the next couple weeks, along with ongoing updates, so keep an eye here. We're about 40% freaked out, 40% excited, and 20% confused... but either way it should be entertaining for anyone following along.


Tags: captain bojangles  daily 

Recent photos

Recently Listened

Wishlist

Search

Profile Information

Application afterLoad: 0.000 seconds, 0.44 MB
Application afterInitialise: 0.052 seconds, 4.78 MB
Application afterRoute: 0.068 seconds, 6.24 MB
Application afterDispatch: 0.212 seconds, 16.86 MB
Application afterRender: 3.352 seconds, 26.13 MB

Memory Usage

27528592

19 queries logged

  1. SELECT *
      FROM v2_session
      WHERE session_id = 'caba908eba5b9f80ed5427d32dd4af4f'
  2. DELETE
      FROM v2_session
      WHERE ( time < '1328547244' )
  3. SELECT *
      FROM v2_session
      WHERE session_id = 'caba908eba5b9f80ed5427d32dd4af4f'
  4. UPDATE `v2_session`
      SET `time`='1328548144',`userid`='0',`usertype`='',`username`='',`gid`='0',`guest`='1',`client_id`='0',`data`='__default|a:9:{s:15:\"session.counter\";i:129;s:19:\"session.timer.start\";i:1328539142;s:18:\"session.timer.last\";i:1328548081;s:17:\"session.timer.now\";i:1328548108;s:22:\"session.client.browser\";s:48:\"CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)\";s:8:\"registry\";O:9:\"JRegistry\":3:{s:17:\"_defaultNameSpace\";s:7:\"session\";s:9:\"_registry\";a:1:{s:7:\"session\";a:1:{s:4:\"data\";O:8:\"stdClass\":0:{}}}s:7:\"_errors\";a:0:{}}s:4:\"user\";O:5:\"JUser\":19:{s:2:\"id\";i:0;s:4:\"name\";N;s:8:\"username\";N;s:5:\"email\";N;s:8:\"password\";N;s:14:\"password_clear\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"usertype\";N;s:5:\"block\";N;s:9:\"sendEmail\";i:0;s:3:\"gid\";i:0;s:12:\"registerDate\";N;s:13:\"lastvisitDate\";N;s:10:\"activation\";N;s:6:\"params\";N;s:3:\"aid\";i:0;s:5:\"guest\";i:1;s:7:\"_params\";O:10:\"JParameter\":7:{s:4:\"_raw\";s:0:\"\";s:4:\"_xml\";N;s:9:\"_elements\";a:0:{}s:12:\"_elementPath\";a:1:{i:0;s:69:\"/var/sites/teamsoell.com/root/libraries/joomla/html/parameter/element\";}s:17:\"_defaultNameSpace\";s:8:\"_default\";s:9:\"_registry\";a:1:{s:8:\"_default\";a:1:{s:4:\"data\";O:8:\"stdClass\":0:{}}}s:7:\"_errors\";a:0:{}}s:9:\"_errorMsg\";N;s:7:\"_errors\";a:0:{}}s:13:\"session.token\";s:32:\"48d5bcedf3f53d6c32e1bfb80346fe41\";s:23:\"gantry-current-template\";s:12:\"rt_juxta_j15\";}BF________com_tag|a:1:{s:7:\"default\";a:14:{s:4:\"page\";s:1:\"1\";s:5:\"limit\";i:10;s:6:\"filter\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"boxchecked\";s:0:\"\";s:12:\"hidemainmenu\";s:0:\"\";s:4:\"task\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"total\";s:0:\"\";s:4:\"view\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"returnto\";s:0:\"\";s:32:\"4922f8d610dcf1a2bd203ec6f0f4578e\";s:32:\"caba908eba5b9f80ed5427d32dd4af4f\";s:6:\"option\";s:7:\"com_tag\";s:6:\"Itemid\";N;s:3:\"tag\";s:7:\"la 2010\";s:9:\"lastModel\";s:7:\"tag_map\";}}'
      WHERE session_id='caba908eba5b9f80ed5427d32dd4af4f'
  5. SELECT *
      FROM v2_components
      WHERE parent = 0
  6. SELECT folder AS type, element AS name, params
      FROM v2_plugins
      WHERE published >= 1
      AND access <= 0
      ORDER BY ordering
  7. SELECT *
      FROM v2_redj
      WHERE ('/andy/828-announcement' REGEXP BINARY fromurl)>0
      AND published='1'
      ORDER BY ordering
  8. SELECT m.*, c.`option` AS component
      FROM v2_menu AS m
      LEFT JOIN v2_components AS c
      ON m.componentid = c.id
      WHERE m.published = 1
      ORDER BY m.sublevel, m.parent, m.ordering
  9. SELECT *
      FROM v2_rokcandy
      WHERE published=1
  10. SELECT template
      FROM v2_templates_menu
      WHERE client_id = 0
      AND (menuid = 0 OR menuid = 56)
      ORDER BY menuid DESC
      LIMIT 0, 1
  11. SELECT `option`
      FROM v2_components
      WHERE parent=0
      AND iscore=0
  12. INSERT INTO `v2_rokuserstats` ( `user_id`,`ip`,`session_id`,`page`,`referrer` )
      VALUES ( '0','38.107.179.206','caba908eba5b9f80ed5427d32dd4af4f','/andy/828-announcement','' )
  13. SELECT a.*, u.name AS author, u.usertype, cc.title AS category, s.title AS section, CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(a.alias) THEN CONCAT_WS(":", a.id, a.alias) ELSE a.id END AS slug, CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(cc.alias) THEN CONCAT_WS(":", cc.id, cc.alias) ELSE cc.id END AS catslug, g.name AS groups, s.published AS sec_pub, cc.published AS cat_pub, s.access AS sec_access, cc.access AS cat_access 
      FROM v2_content AS a
      LEFT JOIN v2_categories AS cc
      ON cc.id = a.catid
      LEFT JOIN v2_sections AS s
      ON s.id = cc.section
      AND s.scope = "content"
      LEFT JOIN v2_users AS u
      ON u.id = a.created_by
      LEFT JOIN v2_groups AS g
      ON a.access = g.id
      WHERE a.id = 828
      AND (  ( a.created_by = 0 )    OR  ( a.state = 1
      AND ( a.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_up <= '2012-02-06 17:09:04' )
      AND ( a.publish_down = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_down >= '2012-02-06 17:09:04' )   )    OR  ( a.state = -1 )  )
  14. UPDATE v2_content
      SET hits = ( hits + 1 )
      WHERE id='828'
  15. SELECT *
      FROM v2_tag_layouts
  16. SELECT count(id)
      FROM v2_tag_hideshow
      WHERE scope = "com_content"
      AND idnumber = "828:announcement"
  17. SHOW FIELDS
      FROM v2_tag_category_map
  18. SELECT m.tagid AS id, tag_tags.tagname AS tagname
                   
      FROM v2_tag_category_map AS m
                   
      LEFT JOIN v2_tag_tags AS tag_tags
      ON m.tagid = tag_tags.id
                   
      WHERE m.contentid='828'   
      AND tag_tags.published='1'
                   
      AND access <= 0
      ORDER BY tagname
  19. SELECT id, title, module, position, content, showtitle, control, params
      FROM v2_modules AS m
      LEFT JOIN v2_modules_menu AS mm
      ON mm.moduleid = m.id
      WHERE m.published = 1
      AND m.access <= 0
      AND m.client_id = 0
      AND ( mm.menuid = 56 OR mm.menuid = 0 )
      ORDER BY position, ordering

Language Files Loaded

Untranslated Strings Diagnostic

None

Untranslated Strings Designer

None