February came early

How has it been two months already?

Kiki and Popo are walking now. Kiki can go fully independently all over the house, smiling the whole way. It's unbearably cute. Popo still walks behind his little car, but he's doing that much better now and can walk well while holding our hands.

I've been a little sick recently, likely due to too much travel. Popped up to Seattle for TechReady2, the big MSFT training event, and went skiing at Whistler for 4 days beforehand. When I got back into the US, I found out Popo was in the hospital and flew home on the redeye to take care of Kiki. Popo is fine, but it was a long week.

Sona arrived to help out again for 6 weeks right after this, and I took off for another trip to Seattle for the Windows Vista TAP - Rapid Deployment with some Wachovia people. I went skiing in Whistler again for the weekend, some of the best skiing I've ever had. Perfect snow, big football games drew away the normal traffic, and I was able to hit my first double-black diamond. WOOHOO! The airlift was great - Vista looks like a solid product, HUGE amounts of improvements scattered all throughout the system.

Alica is wrapping up her writing on the dissertation, which is GIGANTIC! Hopefully she'll get that done by the time Sona leaves, and by summer she'll have defended it and can graduate!

We've been doing great things at work, constantly uncovering new cost savings for the bank that we can claim for our project. The core deliverable was tested out last week and we are exceeding all expectations. WOOHOO!

Finally, I played a ton of poker this weekend while locked away in my office (too sick to go outside, too contagious to take care of kids, not too sick to do something). Saturday was my day - hit 2nd place in a $4,500 prize pool tournament, winning over $1000, and then hit another one later that night coming in 7th in a $8,500 tournament for $400! A month ago or so I placed 7th in a similar event, winning $500, but I really wanted a $1000+ victory. The babies are getting a new stroller and some new toys out of that :).

Happy times at home!