Wins:

• Our project proposals were approved… given the go signal to give budget proposals for the company I was consulting for… times like these I’m thankful for going the long route of touring the various semiconductor mfg job functions…
• First shooting of my banana plant… so far only one this week…
• Saw the first picture of my kid via sonogram…
• The thesis group I was mentoring passed their panel defense…

Losses:

• With the recent cramps that my wife has been experiencing, we were advised to take it easy on any travel engagements. Not to mention that she should lessen her physical activity. Advice from friends point to the criticality of the first trimester of pregnancy.

Straight from the Big Kahuna’s mouth… Larry Ellison said, at Tokyo’s Oracle Openworld, that the recent actions of Oracle to purchaseMySQL’s open source database engine providers were not meant to harm it’s very popular open source rival…

Article here

From slashdot