Amitai Schleier @schmonz@octodon.social

Recent status:
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Taavi at 9 months: questioning but also skeptical.
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Attempted dictionary attack. Thwarted, for now.
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Fractal frost on front porch. Producing podcast episode from easy chair. Fruity Salvadoran coffee in hand, dog at feet. Next: send invoice. Good to be home.
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Baby’s first NJ Turnpike rest stop.

Appropriate, because: https://schmonz.com/2007/11/16/explosion-at-the-poem-factory/
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About time to pack up and head home with this guy.
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Current status:

- Second week back at work is almost over

- Been coming "home" every night to a child who has apparently learned to imitate an old man running for office

- Almost but not quite ready for us to go home

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I'll consider it. https://octodon.social/media/SlJIdp3X6hcx2SjqWgg

I believe “after” is better, and these before-and-after diagrams are intended to help you agree. Are they succeeding? What might help more? https://octodon.social/media/gB9mPczQad9rQbK6-ok https://octodon.social/media/S-81mM_N1LCxe7ORy1U

Thanks to this very thoughtful Christmukkah gift from my in-laws, Taavi just heard my favorite Medtner sonata for the first time.

You can hear me playing it in recital here: https://schmonz.com/2007/12/06/medtner-sonata-reminiscenza-op-38-no-1/

Merry Christmukkah!
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Six months. Sassy.
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Today’s supermoon marks the sixth lunar month of our super Taavi Lua, who is hard at work on talking and crawling.
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Taavi’s face is not a square, but he can produce a decent approximation.
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Taavi with his Nana.
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New favorite thing: put my ear to Taavi’s chest. He gets to grab my beard and hair; I get approximately this view, plus a derpy grin.
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Soon this apparatus will be less useful for sitting and more useful as a temporary jail with a crinkly-sounding thing. https://octodon.social/media/B3CNVs5m4unxGC9XcJ0

A 4-month old grows artistically in Brooklyn.
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Out and about, pokin’ around Hoboken.
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Someone sent me this bespoke t-shirt. But who? #cottonmystery
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