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Life is starting to finally wind down after the last few weeks. We just finished a run of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' after a month of rehearsals (for me anyway, I just do help with sound). Now I have some time in the evenings to actually sit down and do something other than spend all my waking hours at work and then at the stage.

The Baby
Well, we had to get some extra tests done, but the baby is coming along just fine according to the doctors. Tuesday we found out that we are having a boy. Now we're in the process of revising our baby registry to be more male-oriented instead of gender neutral. As soon as we found out what we were having, we went to the store and purchased some clothes in celebration.

Work
Work is going great. I opted to head to SANSFire 2007 in Washington, DC instead of going to SANS in Las Vegas later in the year so that I could be home after the baby is born. Six days in the capital of the US learning Web Application Security should be pretty nice. DC isn't Vegas, but hey, I'm getting the same training and get to take time off of work after the baby is born. Speaking of work...

New Laptop
Work decided to give me a laptop. The network admin just got a new one as well, so we ordered a bunch of Dell Latitude D820's and they were gracious enough to give me one of the lot. I am enjoying it a lot thus far. Mine has the standard 1280x800 widescreen, 1.66ghz Core 2 Duo, 2 gigabytes of RAM, and a 120 gig hard drive. It initially shipped with Windows XP, but I loaded Vista on it to test for work.

So far, much better performance than my Compaq Presario C504US when it comes to Vista (the Compaq runs XP like a champ though). I plan on writing a more formal review after I've had it for a while.

Reading
I just finished The Firstborn by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook. Its been too long since I've read a proper book, and I'm glad to get back into Dragonlance as well. Look for a more in-depth review down the road, its on my list of things to write about.