A new arrival

Please welcome into the world Yannos Nikau de Jager!

Born 7/7/2015 (three weeks early), weighing 2650g and 48cm short. Since then he’s put on quite a lot of weight (a kilo in his first three weeks!) but has not yet learned to walk, read, or juggle.

This announcement was somewhat delayed because¹ we’ve been searching for the right name. We think we’ve found it, but of course only time will tell: the proof of the pudding will be shouting “Yannos Nikau Manolis Manu get out of bed you’ll miss your schoolbus”, but by then it’s too late to change if we made any mistakes. This choice at least has made various Greek family members very happy, which is nice to be responsible for.

Notes:

A truer statement would be “because I am slack”. [↪]

Comments

Aug 17, 2015 at 16:08 • Kimberley

Haere mai, welkom! I love both your children's names. :-)

Aug 17, 2015 at 16:08 • tikitu

Thanks :-)

Aug 20, 2015 at 18:08 • S. glaber

Congratulations, and welcome Yannos Nikau! I suppose that this explains why (b)logophile has been rather quiet of late...

Aug 21, 2015 at 10:08 • tikitu

@Sponts: thanks!

As for the quiet: yes and no. The reasons for keeping this blog going are gradually and quietly eroding: we have a family-access-only blog (where we can put pictures that show Manu's willy without worrying about Internet Sickos); I'm experimenting with github sites for technical stuff (currently lumped together at http://tikitu.github.io/ but I'm planning on spinning off project sites as that begins to make sense); and the quick "look this is cool" posts I used to make way-back-when are now hitting Twitter. I'm also getting into web minimalism (artisanal html!) and making less and less use of Wordpress's features, while WP has always been going in the opposite direction.

Add to that babies (yes it does have an impact), some ongoing fun side projects, and a super-rewarding job that doesn't leave me hankering for creative expression like the previous one did, and there's neither as much time nor as much need for posting here as there used to be.

Despite which, I value my loyal readership here very highly: hugs to all! (It's nice that I realistically could give you all hugs, and probably will eventually, but it's also a reason to limit my time investment here.)