Well, its my birthday. I'm half-way to 64 and still have more years of employment ahead of me than I do behind me. That thought is a little depressing, but worse is that some "Other Doug" out there on the internet sent me birthday wishes while my family forgot.

In conversion with Other Doug, he suggested that:

Jesus remembers your b-day though...I bet He counts them down until we arrive in His presence...

What a wonderful thought! Its never crossed my mind that He might be looking forward to meeting me as much as I am to meeting Him. Not that I'm in a hurry or anything. I feel better now.

Anyways, onto other topics...

I've just noticed that the last time I blogged was January 14. Coincidentally, that's the same date as our first baby is due. Or, was due. The doctor figures either we're gonna have a very big baby or we didn't conceive the day with thought we did. Whatever. Current due date is January 2.

In further news, I have quit working at Enquiro and am now among the self employed . I'm doing freelance software development and so far its going well. I need a lot of work on my self discipline though which has been pretty much non-existant over the past two months. I'm loving the freedom though.

Finally, I'm getting back into photography. A few months ago I pulled out my old Minolta film SLR camera and had quite a bit of fun until I realized I was going to go broke paying for film and developing. I managed to get my hands on a nice new Nikon D80 and have been going great guns with it. I think I've had it for exactly one month and have already shot around 1500 exposures. I'll post interesting shots here from time to time. The rest will be on the-wilsons.ca and a new one I'm working on at jadeia.com.