Friends

Sorry it took so long, but there are new chromium packages available now. You may notice some key differences:

* Most of the component libraries that chromium uses/includes/bundles are now built as shared libraries (except webkit, and a few other smaller one). They all live in the chromium-libs subpackage. Please note that these shared libs are only used for chromium (and courgette), and do not end up in the ld.so cache.
* Courgette, the binary diff utility is in its own subpackage, dependent on chromium-libs. You do _not_ need to install the courgette package to use the chromium browser.

Some behind the scenes changes:

* I simplified my patches quite a bit. This will hopefully make it easier to rebuild from newer source checkouts.
* This will probably be the last Fedora 10 build. Time to consider updating.
* The previous package build will now be kept in http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/old/

Oh yes, one more thing. If you have SELinux enabled, you might discover that chromium no longer starts.

It throws an error like this:

/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromium-browser: error while loading shared
libraries: /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libsandbox.so: cannot restore
segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

This is because chromium is now loading its components from shared libraries.

Jussi Lehtola reports that this fixes the issue for him:

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libsandbox.so

Further emails show that several other bits need this workaround:

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib*/chromium-browser/*.so

This is because some of the chromium bits were built without -fPIC. I'm working on a fix, it should be resolved with the next build.

Jason (my brother) posted this, it is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.
http://technochicken.com

You know how I am about chickens. Tasty!

We've gotten about 6 inches of snow here so far, and no signs of letting up. All the house shopping had to be cancelled. :-(

Got home before the snow started tonight! It's supposed to be a real blizzard! I'm so excited. Tom says that's only because I won't have to shovel - and that's certainly a big part of it!

I went out with my "Little Sister" for dinner tonight. We went to her favorite restaurant - "The 99". It was good. The first thing out of Shannon's mouth was - look at this delicious dessert - it's too big to eat alone! So of course we ended up sharing. We just talked and talked. I find that sort of just "girl talk" to be very relaxing. Then we went back to her house, and of course she got all hyper from the sugar, which was pretty funny. It was a good evening.

Now I just want to see some snow!!!

Okay, this is a bit scary:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19777.cfm

"Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite 'the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). $2 million US dollar verdict against Bayer confirms company's liability for an uncontrollable technology."

Why are we allowing companies to test GMO crops out in the open again? What's going to happen to all the organic farmers at the farmers market, that I like to shop at?

Had another OB visit and also a childbirth class today. The OB said I was doing a decent job managing the gestational diabetes, and that I just needed to get more dinner readings in. So that was encouraging. It's very hard and I thought I was missing too many readings to do any good, but she said I was actually doing a decent job considering how hard it is and to just work harder on the dinner readings. So, yay! I gained 1/2 lb at this visit (the last one was two weeks ago) which with all the early weight loss puts me at about +2 lbs or so total. The baby's heartbeat was fine, his movements are fine, my blood pressure is fine, everything seems fine.

I had quite a bit of shortness of breath lately, and the doctors (almost my whole cadre - the OB, primary care, hematologist, and maternal fetal medicine specialist) checked me out and had a big phone conference and decided it was just normal pregnancy shortness of breath, and that the odds of it being a blood clot were so low as to not worry about it. So, I don't have to do further testing for that, yay! Apparently it is just 6 months of extreme motion-sensitive morning sickness and the resultant hiding in bed catching up to me. I've been walking 15 minutes or more most days, and the OB said to keep that up and just go slower and take it easy if I get short of breath.

I'm now looking for a birth Doula. I had no idea how expensive they are! Tom and I just think given how anxious I am, and how far away my own mother is, it is a good idea to have an extra support person around. It's too bad all my friends who've had babies have moved away!!! I think having someone experienced there will help me stay calm and focused, and maybe I can stave off the dreaded c-section! As much as that's possible. Watch me go and have a breech baby after all this. But even if I have to have a c-section, I don't want to be knocked unconscious because I'm raving like a panicky loon. I want to be awake when my baby is born and hold him and feed him as soon as possible afterwards. I think even then a Doula would help me stay calm. I've gotten some good recommendations, so now we just have to find the time to interview a few people for a good fit!

Also, I now have 99% of my holiday shopping done! I'm not doing very many Christmas cards this year, considering I'll probably be doing birth announcements in a month or two, so don't be disappointed if you don't get one from me - immediate family and grandmas only! And Amy, because she sent me the adorable picture of her kid. But that's it!

Childbirth class tonight was all about interventions, and I was so squeamish and obviously anxious the teacher came up and gave me a big hug afterwards. A doula definitely sounds like a good idea for me! We had infant CPR this week as well, at Isis Maternity, and the teacher was just hilarious. I'm glad I took the class. They also went over what to do if the kid is choking, and how to make your house safe (apparently latex balloons are the #1 baby choking hazard).

The only other thing going on in my life right now besides work is we are looking at selling our condo and buying a house. I have no idea what we'll be able to afford - we've started looking with a realtor in the suburbs, and have a big day planned for Sunday. Our seller realtor said that we should be able to sell the current condo at a high enough price to get our down payment back, which is nice. I hope it all works out!