Monthly Archives: April 2009

The Son Also Rises

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Our second child — a boy named Wyatt Paul — was born yesterday morning. Currently, everyone is doing very well and we’re still in the hospital as my wife recovers from surgery. My in-laws are staying at our house and watching our daughter.

All things considered, it seems that this delivery went even smoother than the first time. Angela has been in better health (minus horrible heartburn & nausea) and her recovery seems to be going even faster this go round. We have a very brief scare just before the scheduled surgery time when it appeared her blood pressure had dramatically dropped and his heart rate also dropped. After literally running my wife’s bed down the hall to the OR, they quickly realized all was okay and let us breathe again.


Calm Before the Storm
Operating Room

Moments later, at exactly 8:17 am, we had a handsome little baby boy. Angela, though heavily sedated, got to spend a bit of time with him before I took him off to the nursery (well, I followed the nurses, anyway). There, he was greeted by two of his grandparents and his big sister on the other side of the glass.


Wyatt Paul Coleman
Meet Your New Baby Brother

He was weighed and measured while I watched in the nursery. His weight was 7 lbs. 8 oz. (exactly what Angela had guessed) and his length was 20 1/4 in. I went out to see my daughter and talk to my family. I then went back to the room to wait on Angela and make some phone calls. Angela got wheeled back in to the room about 30 minutes later. And, much to our delight, Wyatt came in just moments thereafter. He began feeding without much trouble and has been doing great ever since.


And In This Corner...
Happy Parents

Angela’s parents have been back by with Ainsley a couple of times since. Ainsley is already pointing at her little brother and saying "baby!" As I stated earlier, Angela has been recovering very well. We’re all set to go home as soon as we can.

In the meantime, all the latest news and information on Wyatt is over at his website.

What’s Wrong with Wall Street

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Frank Rich’s excellent insight into the culture of Wall Street that was at the core of the current recession:

This was not an exact replay of the preceding dot-com bubble. As a veteran of the tech gold rush recently observed to me, in Silicon Valley “the money comes later” and “the thing you make comes first, however whimsical, silly, microscopic, recondite it may be.” On Wall Street over the past decade, the money usually came first, last and in between. There was no “thing” being made at all unless you count the slicing and dicing of debt into financial “products,” the incomprehensible derivatives that helped bring down the economy, costing some five million Americans their jobs (so far) and countless more their 401(k)’s.

The fundamental shift that this country has to undergo is that our ultimate goal should all be to do nothing but let our money make us more money. Goods and services — and the skills that support them — are the most important cornerstone of our economy. Money laundering (basically what the market became with its shuffling of debt over the past decade) has never been a sustainable business. (via Tim O’Reilly)