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Eleanor knows her colors now, although the only ones she signs are white, black, red, orange, yellow, brown, and green. Her favorite color is orange. She's a huge fan of any orange cats we meet outside—especially the two we captured on video last month, which she asks to see again and again.
Eleanor has always gone through cycles of good and bad sleeping. She's never slept through the night consistently, but she'll have approximately two-week periods where she manages it most nights, followed by a few weeks of more frequent waking. The worst periods are during teething, which recently started for all four of her canines. Now that she's older, she's also resisting sleep more actively in the evenings, and we've had to get more draconian about bedtime routines. No Cry has served us somewhat well up to this point, but we might need to give Dr. Ferber a try soon. I'm not enjoying this new phase.
During the day she's an absolute delight, fortunately. She is experimenting with sounds, and has expanded her spoken vocabulary to five words: mama, dada, baba ("baby"), wawa ("water"), and dowa ("door", we decided—she's still working on this one). She can walk five blocks to get to the park, and she (usually) likes helping with household chores. She also likes visiting our housemates, who will very graciously entertain her for a few minutes to give me and Sarah a little rest.
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In an attempt to waste less time on the computer, I'm going on an information diet. I unsubscribed from all high-traffic mailing lists and most high-traffic web feeds. I love Google Reader's "trends" page, which ranks feeds by number of updates, and makes it easy to unsubscribe quickly. It also lets me see my progress:
(The really low days in the graph are the weekend, when most sites I read don't publish anything new.)
I moved some of the high-traffic feeds to a private Planet Venus page. Now I can check them if I have nothing better to do, but if I ignore them they'll just fall off the bottom of the page instead of piling up in my "unread" queue.
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Starting in early June, I'm working at blist, an early-stage startup located in Seattle. Their product is a web application that makes databases easy to create and share; check out the web site for more information.
I had a great three years at Amazon, but I was getting eager to do something new, and to get back into the small-company world. This happened a little sooner than I'd planned, sice the founder of blist contacted me last month with a opportunity that seemed to good to pass up. Among other cool things, I will be the fourth Mudder at blist (out of about 12 employees); the others are Paul Paradise '03, Jeff Scherpelz '04, and Jonathan Beall '07 (as an intern).
I broke the news to my team yesterday. This was a bit difficult, because the developer who's been on the team for the second-longest time (after me) also announced yesterday that he's leaving Amazon in June. So I feel even worse for my teammates than I expected, but, well, these things happen and the team has survived plenty of similar changes before. The hard part is that I really like my teammates, and that was the main thing that kept me at Amazon this long. If you like your work for its meaning or the challenge or the pay, then it's your own loss if you quit. But if you like it because you have great co-workers that you get along with really well, then you feel responsible for their feelings too.
I mentioned to the junior member of our team—a college hire from this fall—that I think everyone should experience working in both a big company and a small company. In either environment, you can learn and do things that you can't in the other. Right now I've learned all I was ready to learn from Amazon, and now I want to apply it somewhere where I can hopefully make a bigger impact.
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