It's My Birthday

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 own 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.