Have Baby Halt Travel ... If You Can (Part 1)

Traveling with a baby may not cost much for the infant but it sure puts massive constraints on your flight flexibility thereby increasing the likelihood of your own traveling cost. This becomes more of a challenge if the mother expresses milk too.

If this is the case with your family, please plan well in advance and travel off peak or you might just find yourself arguing with everyone around you, especially your travel agent on ticket availability.

So, after much flight changes and arguments with my travel agent, I finally managed to get the specific flight tickets we needed for our holiday trip to UK. Of course, this is after I did the travel booking myself via the internet myself.

It will be nice to travel to UK and hopefully catch up of my old friends there. Luckily (touch-wood), our darling daughter is usually very easy to manage while traveling. I shudder to think how we will manage if she is cranky on flights. Lets see how the trip goes.

-shasi

My Favourite Mac Links

My favourite  5 Mac app links (in no particular order).

1. Scrivener for who fancy writing books or manuscripts
2. Journler for those wanting to keep a digital journal
2. Delicious Library 2 for keeping track of your book collection
3. iSkysoft iMedia Converter for converting media formats
4. Get Tube for converting YouTube type files (Freeware/Donation)
5. Mind Node for those searching for a freeware mind-mapping tool

Hope you enjoy these apps too. Please note that not all of them are freewares.

-pshasi

What A Day

What a day it has been at work today. Waking up at 4am after not really having much sleep the night before and then having to work the full day only to return at 11.30pm can be quite taxing on the body. Strangely enough, the spirit is nourished when one feels that something substantial had materialized from a long hard day of work.

To top it off, nothing beats coming back to a loving wife and a soundly asleep child.

-pshasi

Confessions of a Mac-aholic

I guess tonight is a night of posting blogs as I have decided to once again revamp my blog to consolidate all my various ramblings into a single blog instead of trying to keeping them separate.

Over this past one year, I have to admit, I never thought I would shift so radically from being a PC user to a Mac lover. While I do admit, MS Office PC is still the best for work related number crunching activities and there are significantly more PC based computer games on the market, PCs no longer do justice for what I enjoy doing on the personal front which is mainly managing my photo collection.

Apart from iTunes, iPhotos, iWorks, Front Row and Dashboard, the various other beautiful GUI interfaced Mac based softwares such Delicious Library, Scriverner, Journler and Berokyo makes me love my Mac to bits. A perfect example of this is the use of the iSight as a Barcode Scanner to automatically catalog your books by linking it to Amazon.

So, I guess I have to confess that I am a Mac-aholic, prowling the internet in search of more beautiful Mac based softwares that symbolizes the seamless GUI interface that the Mac is famous for.

Finding A Feeding Solution

Aleeshya has recently stopping drinking milk for the most part which has gotten both of us a little worried. A drop from 21oz to under 6oz of milk has resulted in us being both anxious on her weight gain (since she has always been a little on the smaller side) and by proxy of that her long term development. This coupled with her throwing up much of her food has also put us both on edge.

I have always been concerned whether we had been overfeeding her and my wife has been concerned whether we have been underfeeding her. Amazing how parents can have such deferring views over the same facts.... but then again, we are only human.

Thankfully, my wife's persistence to find a solution had resulted in us realizing that she is no longer comfortable with the baby bottle teat she had been previously using. A smaller size teat has clearly helped significantly although gone are the days that she is taking 18+oz of milk a day.

We have finally come to a compromise that we shall try to space out her feeds a little more and settle for her taking about 10oz to 12oz a day with the condition that we will also be seeking the pediatricians advice on what to do if she doesn't put on any weight. I had worked on my mac to come up with a simple excel sheet to plan a more spread out meal plan and also to track how she is managing on her meal intakes.

Let us hope and pray that Aleeshya continues to develop her mischievous little self and the reduced milk intake is a natural part of her growth.

I am off to Bangalore tomorrow on work. So until the next time.

-pshasi