Nyan Thomas L's Blog

Many of you have asked about the name, Nyan Thomas. “What’s Nyan mean?” “Who is he named after?” and most common, at least on my side of the family: “How the heck do you pronounce that?” Here, a primer:

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From the start, Nyan’s bodily functions – which at this age consist solely of eating, peeing and pooping – were working just fine. A couple days ago, though, we noticed that the pooping had pretty much stopped. In fact, on Wednesday morning, we noticed that he hadn’t pooped at all in about 18 hours.

Being new parents with no idea about pretty much anything, we were a tad concerned. Not panicked – we’ve been remarkably calm, actually, throughout this thing; I think it’s a virtuous cycle: Nyan is a mellow, easy going kid, which keeps us mellow, which keeps him mellow, and so on and so forth – but a little bit concerned. So I did what one does in such a situation: I googled.

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Well, that pretty much sucked as much as expected.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I have a good job. The pay is alright, it’s satisfying more often than not, I work with some good and fun people, and the benefits are very good. But still: going back to work – especially when your son is less than a week old – just sucks. Read the rest of this entry »