So, I'm over due. Busy holiday season and stuff makes blog updates pretty low on the priority list. I find it ironic that I blog more when I'm actively employed.

My last Microsoft contract ended in mid-December, so I'm on my "100 day break" until I'm eligible for employment at MS again. In the meantime, I've kept busy being a 'house dad', working on some freelance projects, writing for Examiner.com, and looking for work.

I'm arguably more productive when I'm unemployed than when I'm employed!

Kazu's medical problems are largely better, but his eyes are still problematic. He has glasses now, but he has inflammation in his optic nerves, which we are now treating with Methotrexate and a bunch of different eye drops and such.

The holidays, overall, were good. Katsuya just turned 3 on 2/1/2009, and got an enormous number of presents. I shouldn't be allowed to buy presents, because his taste in toys is the same as mine was -- so I go to town buying action figures, superheroes, dinosaurs, monsters, robots, etc. His action figures are so much cooler than mine were when I was his age. :)

And now... to get the little bugger to bed.