What are we doing?
Britton's comment reminded me that many of you to whom I sent email about the death of our website probably haven't heard from us in a while, so here's an update (I'll let Sharon fill in details if she feels like it.)
Asher was born on July 5th, 2005. He was nine pounds and six ounces (Sharon may correct the ounces, but it's around there) and after actively pushing for three hours (!) they decided Asher wasn't cooperating or was too big so they did a C-section. He barely missed being a 4th of July baby, though that's fine by us.
Sharon finished her PhD in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in June 2006, and took a one-year position at UIC here in Chicago. The original idea was to look for jobs during this year while I worked at the U of C and took care of Asher.
Just then (I'm writing like Mark this morning, because I'm teaching Sunday School in less than an hour) the IT department at the U of C re-organized, and my new boss didn't want to let me work from home at all (I had been working from home three days a week, but could've done with fewer.) So I started looking for a different job, mostly to show how I was underpaid, and use that as leverage to bargain for a new work at home agreement. Instead, my new boss stood firm, and I took a new job at a place called Jump Trading.
Like the name sounds, it's a financial firm. I work on writing infrastructure for them: very low latency multithreaded networking stuff in C++. It's fun to be doing hard core programming again, but as a result we had to put Asher into day care. We like the facility, and he seems to have adjusted, but it was a pretty sad day for me, since I'd gotten to stay home with him so much before then.
That brings us to the present, though I've left a bunch of stuff out. Have a great Sunday.
Asher was born on July 5th, 2005. He was nine pounds and six ounces (Sharon may correct the ounces, but it's around there) and after actively pushing for three hours (!) they decided Asher wasn't cooperating or was too big so they did a C-section. He barely missed being a 4th of July baby, though that's fine by us.
Sharon finished her PhD in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in June 2006, and took a one-year position at UIC here in Chicago. The original idea was to look for jobs during this year while I worked at the U of C and took care of Asher.
Just then (I'm writing like Mark this morning, because I'm teaching Sunday School in less than an hour) the IT department at the U of C re-organized, and my new boss didn't want to let me work from home at all (I had been working from home three days a week, but could've done with fewer.) So I started looking for a different job, mostly to show how I was underpaid, and use that as leverage to bargain for a new work at home agreement. Instead, my new boss stood firm, and I took a new job at a place called Jump Trading.
Like the name sounds, it's a financial firm. I work on writing infrastructure for them: very low latency multithreaded networking stuff in C++. It's fun to be doing hard core programming again, but as a result we had to put Asher into day care. We like the facility, and he seems to have adjusted, but it was a pretty sad day for me, since I'd gotten to stay home with him so much before then.
That brings us to the present, though I've left a bunch of stuff out. Have a great Sunday.
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