Wednesday, 08/29/2018
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12:02 Another day
So after talking to Dr. Mellon yesterday, it seems like we're looking at some form of induced or C-section birth. He advised us to not remove the idea of a C-section from our minds, as, if Abigail doesn't go head down before the induction, hospitals would have to do a C-section without a debate.
We have an ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow morning, and there's a chance that if she's head down we might ask for an induction then. If she's not head down, the plan is to go back on Friday for another ultrasound and hope for the best.
We've relocated to Belfast for the next few days so that if anything premature happens we'll be a much closer striking distance to PenBay. That has meant things are pretty up in the air family wise. It is nice to be in Belfast, but we had to sort of decamp here.
I'm running Jane up to Bangor for a dentist appointment, and then to Wendy Lou's summer's end party. It seems funny to be in Belfast when we still have to drive all over hill and dale anyway.
Yesterday felt shapeless. After meeting with Dr. Mellon, there were errands to run and I just kind of felt like Emma had a plan in her head but wasn't communicating very well. We finally got to Belfast and I said we had to stop and sit and talk before we did anything else. That was really productive.
23:17 Work?
I had been hoping to tune into at least some of the on-site engineering meetings at work, but family things kept trumping it. It doesn't help that being PST everything gets started afternoon, and that's when I have the least time. Tomorrow's likely a total loss given that if all goes well we'll being having Abigail. That's hardly something to be bent out of shape for :)
Nonetheless, things are going well. I feel like the last few weeks with Emacs things have finally settled into place. Having spacemacs around it makes the whole thing much easier to get used to. But it's the power of all the configuration that just blows my mind. I come away completely in awe of the thought and effort that has gone into improving things to just work well. People are always excited to talk about UX in startups and such, but a tool like Emacs reminds you that no amount of UX research can help you design something if you don't use it every day. There's a reason hand planes are still best when they come from Lee-Nielson.
All that said, I still wouldn't wish Emacs on someone who didn't know what they were doing. You have to /want/ to learn it. Being forced to would be horrible.