http://www.workaholicdad.com The Zen of balancing family and work Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:32:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Working in the financial industry these days isn't a lot of fun. The anger of the public against anything remotely linked to finance is running high - understandably so. A relatively small group of derivative and bond bankers have ruined the party for everyone and now we all suffer the ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=232 Although it's only Sunday afternoon I already dread tomorrow morning's commute. It is not necessarily the longest of commutes in terms of distance - only 21km (ie. 13 miles) but lately in the mornings it has taken me more then an hour door to door. There is one particular road that ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=230 Since it's been so long since I have shown this blog some love I think it's time to share one of my favorite pics of the munchkin and me. http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=224 The wife and I have decided it was time to enter the 21st century in the technology department and are getting ourselves some Blackberries. I have been a blackberry user since day one always having one for work - but up to this day never for other ventures and private ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=218 With horror I have realized that I haven't posted anything on this blog since December when Mackenzie was just 3 weeks old. In the last post she just learned to work a pacifier around in her mouth and now - almost 10 months later she still hates the rubber nipple ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=214 Now that Mackenzie is 2 weeks old (well, 2.5 really) we tried using a pacifier when she gets a bit grumpy. It took her a while to get the concept of sucking on a rubber nipple - without the cream filling - but she finally got the hang of it. Here ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=213 This morning we had the pleasure of making our little girl a US citizen on top of her German citizenship. It wasn't nearly as pleasant of an experience as dealing with the German offices. The new American Embassy is on what looks like an old Army base and has the inviting ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=210 Now that we have a bit of a routine down with the peanut I can use some of my vacation time to play around on one of my little internet side projects: SecretSides.com - a social network for rock climbers to find new climbing partners and locals that can show ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=208 The Mrs. loves Ebay and bargain hunting. I am a big friend of Ebay as well and so it is now wonder that we search our way through millions of baby related offerings during the course of stocking Mack's room. Two auctions in particular had us a bit confused. We ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=206 [caption id="attachment_202" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=" "][/caption] When I returned to the bedroom this morning after checking my email messages I found the Peanut snuggled up against the Mrs. Apparently feeding time had lead to a massive bowel movement and mommy just could get herself to take care of it just yet. ... http://www.workaholicdad.com/?p=200