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If you follow the Life of Riley series, you may have noticed that for the past nine weeks or so, there have been lines that read, “MISSING DATA [week number]-[day number][A,B,C]” interspersed throughout the posts.
People have asked me about the codes, some even going so far as to test whether WordPress was accidentally omitting data in certain browsers. I wasn’t trying to create work for people, but I thought that the cross-browser testing was pretty awesome.
The MISSING DATA items were simply notes stored in a text file about a subject that I haven’t been able to talk about. As of today, I’ve inserted the missing data into the posts.
To make it easier for people to read the additions without picking through nine weeks of what are typically marathon posts, I created links to all the additions below. Although some are merely blips, some significantly increased the size or direction of the original posts.
Any additions that are longer than a few lines have been starred.
Welcome to our little secret…
Week 83
Week 84
Week 85
84-588A*
84-589A
84-591A*
84-592A*
84-593A*
Week 86
Week 87
87-602A
87-603A
87-603B*
87-604A*
87-606A*
87-608A
Week 88
Week 89
88-616A
88-619A
88-621A*
88-621B*
88-622A
88-622B
Week 90
90-624A
90-624B
90-624C
90-627A*
Week 91
91-630A
91-633A
91-634A*
91-635A*
91-636A
91-636B*
March 18th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
yaaaaay!!!!!
lol… laaaaaabiaaaaaa
… i think this could be the subject of your book… little Mocha
March 19th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I never read week 83. I haven’t been on the web much lately. 83-580A* blows my mind. Congratulations. I think that puts a few other things in perspective on your blog.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
CONGRATULATIONS! And it’s a mind-blowing experience. Lots of fun, lots of no-sleep. And if you want, Parenthacks (www.parenthacks.com) and Ask Moxie (www.askmoxie.org) are good for advice.
Big thoughts right now:
1. Don’t sweat it. The odds are in your favor. And babies bounce. Someday I’ll write about how many falls my kid has had and she’s a pretty damn good kid.
2. Armin A. Brott (www.mrdad.com) has great parenting advice. I prefer him over the What to Expect books because those started to freak me out after awhile with all the paranoia talk.
3. Get lots of sleep. Make sure #1GF gets lots of rest when the baby comes. The lack of sleep is one big contributor to the baby blues.
4. Welcome to chaos. When parents told me that I wasn’t fully prepared, I was like “yeah, yeah…” BUT THEY’RE RIGHT. Nothing will go the way you think it will and that sometimes is a very good thing.
5. Make sure you take the time to tell #1GF that you love her and take care of her when the baby comes. I learned the hard way that a baby is like a live hand grenade — it takes out EVERYTHING. I remember a lot of moms and dads (myself included) having a hard time with their relationship once the kid arrived. If you can get the grandparents to give you a date night on occasion, DO IT. DO IT. You do have to remember why the hell you decided to have a baby in the first place.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Congratulations to you and #1GF!!!! Your Mom and Dad are going to be the greatest grandparents. Your father actually watched my middle son when my mother was sick…he was great with him. When I get a chance, I’ll type my official list of unsolicited advice/experiences for you.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
re: V’s #5 —-
macoosh makes a GREAT babysitter.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Congratulations! After reading about the robot on your LOR posts, I can’t wait to read about the latest bebe adventures.
As far as the missing data posts go, I was figuring that it was just some geek code for “I can’t for the life of me remember what the heck happened between these two paragraphs.”
March 24th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
WOW! Many congratulations. I too thought that MISSING DATA was some kind of scary government internut spy message.
Good stuff- you’re going to be a fun dad.
April 4th, 2009 at 12:03 am
you guys are gonna be such awesome parents