Catching a Good Break

So my first post in a year and a half... and a pretty poor pun for the title.

1. I have had a break from this blog while living the Gen X and Y thing on FaceBook, Linked In and so many other parts of the Web-sphere

2. I recently broke my leg, so find myself awake a little more, unable to sleep in a comfortable position without waking myself with a painful twinge up as I turn in bed

3. As fractures go, though, I am told it was a "good" one; "Normally," the orthopaedic doctor at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital told me, "this kind of fracture would require a plate to be inserted to fix the bone... but you are lucky, it has not shifted..." So I can say it's a "good break."

4. I reckon that I catch good breaks often, I just don't often recognise them. In my current work contract (I build and manage enterprise type websites) I'm working with a great cross section of the generations - just how I like it - and they share their language, lives and culture with this boomer, in return for which I happily help them learn some useful stuff.

Catching a good break, I'd say.

BTW, our latest twenty year project is now a full-on toddler (20 months) and fills us with joy - and breaks - as she powers towards becoming the next gen. (No name for her generation has been popularised yet!)

Another birth, another generation

Just over two weeks to go before the new website I am managing the design and build for is due to go live.

Another birth in my life. It seems a litle like that. An eagerly awaited event in the life of those who have an interest, yet an event that is occurring at a frantic rateacross the Internet, thousands of times every day.

So a new website is born. It carries the hopes and dreams of many parents, uncles, aunties, brothers and sisters. It even carries children of its own, all with unlimited possibilities and expectation.

Expectation, that's it! How we have such expectations of the new baby, the new website the next generation.

This new baby happens to be the website of Australia's pre-eminent ICT research organisation. Expectations weigh heavily on all of us. I'll add the link when it's live. [now added]

Meanwhile, I'd better get back to managing the expectations and preparing for the birth!

Eight weeks and 'Booming'

Tomorrow, it's eight weeks since our personal baby boom occurred. How we have been blessed.

Kaelyn has an email address - in fact three - just to be sure, and she is of the generation who will expect that whatever facilities you can access in the Internet, you do. I don't want her to be left behind. She doesn't blog - yet - although I know this is popular among her generation's parents.

I elected not to be a stage dad blogger. She can do without the pressure of such expectation.

For now, she can be contacted via her mum and dad's photo website, and retain a cloak of anonymity for a while.

New Beginnings

So, as previously warned, this blogsite has taken an significant turn... It's no longer the ramblings of a late (read young) baby boomer living in the convergence of Gen X and Gen Y and now contributing to the yet to be named baby boomers of 2000 - 2010.

After a few challenges, Kaelyn came home from hospital and her mum is well on the way to recovery from what turned out to be pre-eclampsia. That really messes with you, but she is improving every day and kaelyn is blooming.

And so the generation spread of influence represented on this blogsite stetches to another level. One of the best things about living and loving and being multi-generational is that there are new beginnings every day... for one of us or another!

Hello and Farewell

On Christmas day, just after 5.00pm, my wife gave birth to our daughter, a precious gift.

Through the power of the internet, and the assistance of my nephew in Adelaide, my mum was able to see up to date pictures of our baby girl and rejoice.

Yesterday, December 30 around 10.30am , after a relatively short illness, my mum died, peacefully, comfortably and with the solid conviction of the promise of eternal life.

Hello and welcome Kaelyn. Farewell Mother.

Not Long to Go Now

As I write this post, I find myself contemplating convergence... of new life coming and another ending.

Much of what drives the content of this site is the convergence of generations - the boomers, the gen Xers and gen Y.

As we wait in anticipation of our baby girl, my mum is dying. How more convergent do the generations get?

There is much to look forward to.

Note to Self: Stop Thinking About It

Note to self:

You are preparing for a baby to arrive into your life and into your world. Get used to the fact that it is a world that is almost beyond recognition of the babies born twenty years ago!

We are shopping for baby gear online and bidding for some items on eBay. We know everything there is to know about how this baby is developing. We get and receive daily reports via email and Internet. We have access to a knowledge base that is beyond what we could have conceived twenty years ago (pardon the pun).

We will be "mature parents" though not necessarily the oldest in our pre-natal class. We will be savvy parents - savvy about the technology, the attitudes and the new world - and savvier than many.

Action:

Just go with it. Act as if it's been like this all your life. It's the only sensible thing for Boomer-Gen-X expectant couple can do... and stop thinking about how much everything has changed in twenty years. Celebrate the moment. Hang on and enjoy the ride. Thank God for the opportunity to live the adventure (previous post)