Who has four teeth?

I have four teeth!

Well, you can't see them yet with a camera, but they are there! The second top one broke through just a couple days ago.

Sorry for no posts in a while - the flu has been making its way around. The one Mike got WAS different from the others, and I got it too. It was a miserable, feverish, achy muscle, don't make me get out of bed kind of flu. I got it, but John seems to have been spared - knock on wood. The only thing worse than having this flu would be to have to take care of a baby who feels this cruddy while feeling this cruddy myself. The worst of it seems to have passed, but I have no voice today. John was looking at me pretty strangely while I made a lot of weird, raspy noises this morning.

His creeping has become very good, unfortunately. He can cover a lot of ground fast just slithering along. His destination is often a pair of ankles. Usually mine, because I have yummy tassles on my slippers. Other destinations include dust. I can vacuum, and think that the room is clean, then set him down and within minutes, he'll have found a dust ball. It's like a sixth sense for him. Oh, that and dropped food. Once he can actually eat everything, it'll be like having a dog in the house.

On the strike front, things have taken a unique, and scary twist. The parent company has bought all the shares of Mike's company. In the bulletin, it said that all the employees will be brought into the parent company, and a new company will be formed. We aren't really sure what that means. Layoffs? Who knows. We have a feeling it might mean that Mike's company will in fact be shut down, and replaced with the piece rate contractor the parent company has formed. What happens to the hundreds of workers now absorbed into the parent company is anyone's guess. Or it may mean business as usual - just a different name n the top of paycheques. Who knows. Negotiations have been suspended until tomorrow. Should be an interesting discussion once everyone gets back to the table. I'll keep you all posted.

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STRIKE UPDATE

OK, I actually went and read Mike's bulletin myself. Mike's company will be morphing into a new company, and all the current techs will be transferred into it, NOT the parent company. No less unsettling than a whole new company moving in, swarming the area with large numbers of bargain-priced techs, but it makes more sense at least. However, the union says it's a positive thing and Mike got a message from his manager that, although he has no details right now, his understanding is things will be business as usual. My question is, why do it if nothing will change? A lot of money just changed hands - no company would do that without some gain to be had.