Julie went to the neonatalogist yesterday. With multiples or any high risk pregnancy, they send you to the specialist a few times just to make sure everything’s doing fine. THere had been a little concern because at the last regular appointment a week ago with her doctor’s ultra sound machine, he thought the was perhaps a little too small and the boy might be taking too much of the nutrients. But the neonatalogist said all is well. The boy weighs 5 lbs 6 oz and the is 4 lbs 10 oz. So she’s a little bit smaller but that’s nothing to worry about and is pretty common in twins. So that’s 10 total lbs of babies Julie’s carrying around with around a month still to go. The doctor told her they’ll gain between a half-pound and pound a week from now on, so by the end it could total between 4 and 8 more pounds! Yikes! The doctor was able to get a couple of good face shots of the boy, one looking up at a cute little baby pug nose on the boy. So here are those shots. The little is hard to get a good face shot of because of how she’s positioned but all is well with both!

At work, instead of a typical nameplate outside your office everyone has a metal plate about 2″ x 8″ with magnetic letters spelling their name. Invariably, this leads to all sorts of interesting names as people randomly have their letters rearranged on their nameplate. There’s a pretty cool site that will give you thousands of anagrams of your name. So here’s two of my favorites:

Wailed Milkers
Swami Killdeer

What’s your best anagram name, or in other words, your best Manna Ear Mag?

October was a pretty crazy month at work and left me zero time to blog about a few things I wanted to. So I’ll be playing catch-up this month hopefully. I work for McCann Erickson Worldwide, which is one of the largest marketing groups in the world. They’ve got offices all over and we do work for a bunch of big companies. Just a few are Microsoft, GM, Verizon, and Mastercard. The last couple months I’ve been working on this site, www.innovateon.com, for Microsoft. In addition to the English version, I also did Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese versions. Strange that we did no German. Christian, have the Germans not hopped on the Microsoft bandwagon yet, or what?

Anyway, our building is located right in the middle of downtown, kitty corner from the city-county building, and right across the street from StayWell Interactive, where I was working last year at this time. It’s an old building, built in 1891. It has a historical marker sign outside it. It was originally a club for wealthy businessmen and was located right across Exchange Place from the old Salt Lake Stock Exchange. It’s really a beautiful building, with blue and orange tints, tile mosaics, and gargoyles, things like that on the outside. Brides are often seen getting their pictures taken outside it. What’s crazy is that my Grandma Meg used to work in this building when she worked for Canada Life Insurance. She even worked on the 6th floor, which is where my office is. The interior has all been updated but some of the character of the old building has been left behind, like a frescoed, sculptured ceiling and big Corinthian columns on the main floor. Very cool.