Otter update

The news is, that there is no news.

Otter's* estimated due date is tomorrow, 29th January, but a check up on Friday indicated that we're a few days away still. It's looking more and more likely that it'll be a C-section again, which is very disappointing.

The impending arrival means that I'm now off until after Chinese New Year (17th-18th February), or rather after the two replacements days we get off, since CNY falls over a weekend this year. This will be the longest I've ever taken off work, apart from when I've not actually had a job. Unfortunately, it's the days from last year that I didn't get to take, rather than actual paternity leave. We don't get that in Malaysia.

I'm not going to be idle until the birth though. I've got a stack of software manuals and redbooks** to read about three feet high (or at least it would be three feet high if they were actually printed), plus several enterprise-class products to get my head around, including Websphere Portal 6.x, and Application Server, SameTime 7.5, and Active Directory. Oh, and MS Exchange, though that's only barely worthy of the description enterprise.

So, busy days ahead.

*Nicknamed Otter because of a favourite cartoon chez Wavy, P, B and J Otter
** IBM's Best Practice guides for its products, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com