Digging Up The Daylilies

I left my office on May 1st with crampy contractions. I walked back in this morning after 12 weeks away. How'd it go? Pretty well.

This morning's home routine went very well. Danny had a good substantial feeding at 6:15 and a nibble at 8:15. Over breakfast I pumped a whopping 7 oz (my left side is an amazing producer. I may need a dairy cow shirt.). I headed out the door at 8:35 pushing a stroller but no kid. I had my pump and the big diaper bag so Drew wouldn't have to schlep it later.
Everybody was really happy to see me. I dove back in right away and I think we may well be on track to do our first concentrated turnover of apartments on Friday. I took a pump break at 10:45 and got Danny a good 5 oz for tomorrow. In the meantime Drew tells me that Danny required a whole lot of attention; he got about 30 minutes of work done all morning. And apparently my body had the right idea, as he ate all the milk I left.
Drew brought Danny over to me at 11:45. Danny was a sweet sociable kid. He did get a little fussy around 1:30 when he was full and dry. Katelyn, my boss's daughter and my maternity replacement, took Danny on a short walk for subs. The kiddo conked out. :) He was good the rest of the afternoon until about 3:15. At that point we were out of diapers and Danny was once again overtired. So I started to wrap up my work; we got out of the office around 3:40. We walked to the post office and then home, making it home by just before 4:30. At that point we were both hot and tired. We changed our clothes and crashed in our favorite nursing glider. Drew grilled dinner so I didn't have much to do.

Tomorrow I plan to take more diapers, which should allow us to stay longer. I also need to work out how to get Danny in motion when he gets bored and overtired. I may just need to rock the stroller or wrap him and sway. I'm not sure how to make that work with my desk job, but we'll get there eventually.

I need to buy a camera for work, for documenting stains on carpet and counters (light colors, low contrast), greasy stoves, that sort of thing. Things that don't photograph well but the human eye can detect.

I haven't bought a camera in years. I started looking for reviews (specifically at dpreview.com) but I have no idea what I need. I'm fairly sure that the features that make a great snapshot camera are not the same features that will help me document damages. None of us in the office are much good at photography, so I'm looking for a point & shoot, something small and relatively inexpensive. In the past we've used a Polaroid, but a new ordinance is multiply our photography immensely.

Thanks guys!

I just hung up on a telemarketer and then had to laugh. This was the snarkiest telemarketer I've ever spoken to.

Me: "Good afternoon <snip rest of standard greeting>"
Her: "Hi this is Mary, I'm calling about your copier"
Me: "Can you tell me where you're calling from?"
Her: "My desk"
Me: "And can you tell me what company you are from?"
Her: "Uranus" -- pronounced "Your anus"
Me: "Well in that case you're not my copier supplier, so please don't call me again".

This woman's voice was just so smarmy. I know it was a phishing call, but I have to wonder how the company that hired her expects anyone to buy that she's a legitimate supplier when she talks like that.

Ah well. It made me smile.

I just got a phishing telephone call at my office. I'm used to telemarketers (the Do-Not-Call apparently doesn't apply to business numbers) and I know about phishing in email. But this is a new one on me.

Her: "Hi, this is Jill. I'm calling about your copy machine.  I just need to know the model number on the front of it."
Me: "Sure. Can you just tell me what company you're calling from?"
Her: long silence followed by dial tone

If she had said she was from my copier service I'd have been happy to give her the information she wanted!  I wonder where she was calling from and why.