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Kung Fu Baby

Kung Fu Baby

Monkey appears capable of some awesome Kung Fu moves, as demonstrated in this ultrasound. Sadly, although Von can now feel Monkey’s practice sessions (presumably during the “fluttering butterfly” attack, ’cause that’s apparently what it feels like) the alleged end-of-nausea phase of the pregnancy has failed to eventuate. Fifteen weeks now.

Birthday

Thanks for the 40th birthday wishes, peoples! Much appreciated. It still hasn’t quite sunken in, though. When Mum & Dad were my age, they had a 17 year old son.
I got some excellently nerdy presents, but none more so than from Veronica. I will post a photo at some point.
In other news, I showed the Cars film to Jon & Kate and they had some excellent feedback, and I did a wee bit of editing, but it’s not done yet. There’s still some more filming to go, and I’ve identified an extra couple of shots I really need to get. Also, it’s proving quite difficult to get the film to thematically sync with the music. I’m hoping the final bits of footage will help with that.

Filming

There was a brief gap in the rain yesterday, so I took the opportunity to draft Von and David L. and did a couple of hours of night filming, including one shot that I think looks spectacular. I think we’ve got all the night footage now. Only two or three shots to go!

Cars short film

I spent some time on the weekend working on the Cars short film, and now have a much tighter rough edit:

We All Want To Drive Our Cars. Feeling good now. When the rain finally stops, I can get those last shots and get my biggest millstone out of the way – this project has been about five years in the works!

13 weeks, 5 days

…and counting! The morning sickness seems to be subsiding, which is nice.

The ultrasound from Tuesday went well:

Heya monkey!

News

There are some kinds of news that are globally interesting but individually distant – scientific advances, world politics, and the like. I don’t usually write about these kind of things because, well, I don’t usually have much to add that others haven’t. I tend to stick with more personal kind of news. Things that have directly affected me. The sphere of interest for these items is probably pretty small, but that’s OK.

For example: Veronica is, as of yesterday, three months pregnant. She is very sick of having morning/afternoon/all-day sickness and is greatly looking forward to phase 2 of the pregnancy.
This is wonderful news for us, and it’s been very difficult not blabbing since we found out just before christmas. It’s funny to think that while this is a huge, life-changing event on a personal level, on the broader scheme of things, this is a very normal and happens to people all the time.

Anyway. Wooooooo! Also, a quick message for when you’re old enough to read this: Greetings from Dad-of-the-past! I hope you’ve finished your homework, and have cleaned your room, ’cause reading weblog entries from years and years ago is clearly an act of stupendous procrastination :-)
By the way, the previous sentence contained a “smiley”. This is an archaic punctuation expression from before you were were born.

Also! Have you ever heard of the “iPad”? Is that still around? It was announced a few weeks ago, so that’d be about six months before you were born. When *I* was born, six months previously, people had just landed on the moon for the first time. Also, I should note that the US just cancelled their new land-on-the-moon plans.

And now I’m talking about globally interesting events, and I finally have a reason.