New Child

A month and a half since my last post and a couple of notable events.

In May I worked 3 out of the four months, including 14 nights straight.  A new record that actually wasn't too terrible.  The switch back to days was the same as with any other week of work.

About one week after the above workload we had a new addition to the family.  I am now a parent with two children.  This is a girl so as my wife noted we have officially replaced ourselves.  I added that evolutionarily (perhaps not the best term) we have fulfilled our purpose in life, though statistically the number of children needed for population replacement is slightly higher due.  I guess we will need at least one more.

My project of teaching my son to read continues to be going well.  He likes the "Flesch" cards now and we play with them usually every day.  The way he likes to play is to have the cards "attack" him by running across the table and he has to read the card before it gets him or his food.  He also likes to play our version of "Munchkin" which I've detailed in older posts.

I was actually working on a programming project as well.  It originated as trying to come up with "Dwarf Hospital" (you can easily assume the influence).  It started as two independent projects.  One was doing the libtcod python tutorial to make a rogue like.  At this point I have made a turn based map with a character and I was going to try and make patients that you would see. 

The second prong was trying to come up with as accurate a physiological model of the human body as possible.  After diving in I quickly realized that there are hundreds if not thousands of PhD's around the world who devote their life to making just one model of, say, the kidney's response to ischemic acute kidney injury.  So far I have model that is two organs, the kidney and "other" (represents rest of the body).  The heart is really just a continuous flow rate, only systemic circulation (no lungs yet, just an SaO2 value).  I'm running into issues getting the correct predicted oxygen delivery values (only off by about 50%) so I'm troubleshooting it still.  Not sure where this will go.  A fun side effect is that I've been reading more renal physiology.