Our son, Elijah Thomas Brimhall was born yesterday at 1:14 p.m. Guadalajara time. He weighs 9 lbs. 3 oz and is 21 inches long. He is the most special thing that has ever happened to me.
Don’t expect to see a lot of updates in this space, but we’ll be updating the gallery linked above whenever we can.
Over the last couple weeks Megan went to the doctor for two tries at a 3D Sonogram. Below you can see the results:
We also found out some big news! We are having a baby boy! The due date is still tentatively Nov. 15th and the doctor says it looks like he’ll be a big boy.
I was watching The Colbert Report at lunch this afternoon and about 1 minute in to the clip of “The Word” something got on my nerves. Watch for yourselves . . .
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Did President Obama just criticize the US Postal Service? Is the cost of postage stamps really an example of horrible government service at a really terrible price that is gouging the American public? I didn’t think it was, so I looked up some information and found out that not only does the cost of postage stick pretty darn closely to the Consumer Price Index, but also any increase in cost in postage rates pales in comparison to the increasing cost of health care premiums. See the graph and my rant after the jump . . . Read the rest of this entry »
Megan and I took a 2 week trip to Nicaragua in late June / early July and we had a great time. We visited Granada, Volcáns Mombacho and Masaya, Isla Ometepe & the Corn Islands. It’s taken us a while, but we’ve finally sorted through the photos and got them posted in a gallery.
Back in early March I posted about what I thought the peso was going to do against the dollar and I was worried that we were heading towards $20 pesos per US $. I’m happy to say that I was specularly wrong. Turns out I was looking at the peso at the it’s lowest value and in the last couple months the peso has recovered quite a bit. As of today the peso stands at $13.16 pesos to the US $, which is about $4 pesos lower than I expected. Here is a graph1 of the most recent monthly average exchange rates.
I still wouldn’t call this stable, but it is much more so than a couple months ago and at this point, it is what the most that can be asked for.
