Sitting on my hands. My learned lesson for today is to be aware of and be prepared for contract rollover every quarter. This wasn't a concern with my prior data feed/charts services as they kept historical data on their servers and rollovers were handled easily. Sierra charts don't store any data, and the only data I have is the stuff I collect and keep daily on my hard drive. So this morning I was caught unaware and have had to build up new Dec contracts from scratch. That's the difference between paying $672/yr and $90/yr for charts and data.

Yesterday, was Alan Greenspan day. He was testifying somewhere, and that's usually good for a prolonged snooze. I figured it was a good day to run some errands. We picked up my son's birth certificate at the County Recorder's. We'll need that as we're going to be flying with him in November. We also took him to JC Penney to get some photo portraits taken. That was a mistake.

We previously went to Sears around the 3 month mark and were pleasantly pleased with the results. My wife had a JC Penney's coupon this time and wanted to give them a try. We had to wait nearly two hours because only one frazzled woman was working there. Apparently, everyone else took off for lunch and decided never to come back. When it was finally our turn, our baby was tired, hungry and in no mood to smile. The photographer was some other lady who finally sauntered back from the Food Court. Her idea of getting a baby to smile was snapping a hand cloth at his face. She also kept putting him in reclining poses when we wanted to show off his new sitting and standing with support skills. She also didn't try any different backgrounds. We finally chose 1 shot out of 10 taken, got the cheapest coupon package ($7.99), and my wife is still grumbling today about that crappy experience and why they're cheap for a reason (just like Sierra Charts). Now I have to take her to Picture People, which charges an arm, leg and neckbone for photos.