Project Miner

If you use a laptop as an actual laptop (i.e. in your lap!) often at all and you don’t have a lapinator, you are missing out.  Or you are getting a super hot lap and aren’t as comfortable as I am when I use the laptop.  They come in a few different sizes, I got one big enough for my 17″ dell widescreen and it rocks.  There are little pads on the underside that sit on your legs and feel much more comfy than the laptop.  It’s also good for the laptop because you put these little nubs on it that the laptop sits on and elevates it to allow air to flow through and cool it. 

I got the mouse attachment as well, but it wasn’t so great – it was solid black which doesn’t work so well with optical mice and it sits on a slant so the mouse has a tendency to slide right off.  They added some little rails to put on it to keep the mouse from sliding down, but since I needed to put something else on the pad to make the optical mouse actually track, the rails were useless. 

I can’t remember how I found the lapinator and I distinctly remember thinking “what a stupid name, no way this thing is decent”, but I was wrong.  Can’t judge a product by its name, I guess, but the company should strongly consider some better marketing and/or a product name change.  They should team up with somebody like Dell and offer them with new puters. 

Bottom line: if you use a laptop on your lap often, pick up a lapinator and you won’t regret it.

This Monday (July 30th) Katy woke up with a terrible headache and thought we should go to the hospital to check it out.  Turned out she was having some pretty major complications of pre-eclampsia and her blood pressure was 180/100.  Yowzas.  They doped her up and got the blood pressure down, but that made the baby pretty unhappy.  Fixing one would upset the other, so the solution was to deliver the baby, 8 weeks early.  So, at 3:33pm via c-section under general anesthesia, our daughter Ona Jean StoutMuntz was born.  She came out weighing 3 lbs 2 oz and was just over 16″ long.

Katy spent two days in high risk recovery until her blood pressure went down to just “moderately high” while Ona lived in the NICU until she got stabilized which happened surprisingly quickly.  Wednesday morning, both Katy and Ona were moved into more normal rooms and finally got to meet each other. 

Ona is doing great now — breathing on her own (she was donig that less than 24 hours after delivery), taking in 25 CCs of food every three hours and isn’t even hooked to an IV anymore.  Katy is keeping pace and is being sent home today, with an almost normal blood pressure and stable vital signs and is even starting to pump boobie milk.  Crazy.

We’re able to hold Ona twice a day and clean her dirty diapers every three hours, so we’re spending a lot of time with her even though she’s still in a special care nursery.  Katy has started holding her once a day against her bare skin so they’ll be bonding and doing all the crazy cool physiological stuff that goes on between baby and parent (I’ll do it also eventually, but I’m letting Katy catch up on bonding time right now).

Ona will be home in about 4 weeks, which gives us a bit of time to fix the kitchen and errr, make room for her in the house.  Milli has only four weeks left of getting all the attention at home, so she better suck it all up while she can.