Hilarious!

My loyal readers are begging for some new baby shots. So, here you go!
Thanks, proud father.

I have mixed feelings about this checks we are going to receive from the GOVT this June.
1- it's too late to "stimulate" the economy back out of a recession
2- is this REALLY going to help?
3- aren't we in enough debt the way it is?
4- this now shows that my household combined income is less that $175K a year.
5- i understand that some need it more than others, but wouldn't it be better to see this money allocated towards education in our country?
6- oh what the hell, i will now get to go out and get the geek gadgetry i have been holding off on....and something for hadley.

It's impossible to convey in words just how pleasing and surprising this computer feels in the hand. It's so svelte when closed that it's a real shock to discover the big screen and keyboard inside.
-Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal

Recession: That scary term that is being thrown at us as if some big, hairy, blood-thirsty monster is hovering over the country waiting to pounce on everyone it sees has a bank account balance of less than $5 Million dollars. The news broadcasts and websites spout out this word like it was as obvious and  2 + 2, but to me it seems to general and undefined. So, I took a look and found several reputable financial firm's definitions that somewhat help educate us about this lingering phenomena.
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Edward Jones
A mild decline in stock prices, business activity and employment for two consecutive quarters (six months)

TD Waterhouse
technically defined as at least two consecutive quarters when the economy shrinks or fails to grow.

SmithBarney
When demand in the economy decreases, prices of goods and services also decrease, resulting in a slowdown of the economy. When this slowdown becomes a long-term decline, this is known as a depression.

Morgan Stanley
Broadly defined, a recession is a downturn in a nation's economic activity. If national productivity, or gross domestic product (GDP), declines for at least two consecutive quarters, it is usually considered a recession. The consequences typically include increased unemployment, decreased consumer and business spending, and declining stock prices.

wikipedia
In macroeconomics, a recession is a decline in any country's gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. However, in the United States the official designation of recessions is done by the business-cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Feldstein, 2007). That Bureau defines a recession more ambiguously as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months." A recession may involve simultaneous declines in coincident measures of overall economic activity such as employment, investment, and corporate profits. Recessions may be associated with falling prices (deflation), or, alternatively, sharply rising prices (inflation) in a process known as stagflation. A severe or long recession is referred to as an economic depression. A devastating breakdown of an economy (essentially, a severe depression, or a hyperinflation, depending on the circumstances) is called economic collapse. Newspaper columnist Sidney J. Harris distinguished terms this way: "a recession is when you lose your job; a depression is when I lose mine."

Buy an iPhone now, or wait till they upgrade...which could be as late as June. Any one? Remember though that if I were not as practical and acted on all my impulses I would have already ordered a MacBook Air, and Apple TV. I need to justify spending my xmas gift that my wife and parents gave me.

- iPhone
- Apple TV
- MacBook Air
- Time Capsule
- iPod nano

I love you Apple

apple.com

Apple's Mac World Expo! Come on new iPhones....wishful thinking but I am.

Hello.
Happy New Year everyone.

We are all sick. Even baby Hadley is sick.
But here is my observation on this (from 5280dad.com)

While visiting us for Christmas, my FIL was sick for three days. We must have caught it from him. I am not blaming him, but it's sort of obvious that this was going to happen, combined with loss of sleep - which happens when you have a 5-week old.
Christy is sick too. Tica even has a cough.

So I guess by now you can see that I started 5280 Dad. Please take a look. It will be going through some transformations in the coming weeks but for now I just wanted to get it going since every day something new happens with Hadley. I hope I can make a difference in other Dad's lives. Maybe just provide some insight and also pass on news and product info I have found while researching the best and safest products for our baby girl.