Out of My Element

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by alli on May 24, 2013 at 12:01 am

Fire General: (The Right hand of the Grand Engineer)

The second in command. This position has been held since its creation by the noble Francois LaGuerre – elemental war hero and face of the Generals. LaGuerre’s duties are delegated to him directly from the Grand Engineer.

The Fire Generals’ main purpose is to assist in automating the bureaucratic requirements of the city. Oversee the proposed changes and count as the Grand Engineer in decision making when the Grand Engineer is not present.

This means that a change or procedure must be finally approved by either The Grand Engineer or the Right Hand. Without either of these approvals, projects are deemed unworthy of being worked on and often left to rot in the piles of files they are found in.

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by alli on April 24, 2013 at 4:55 pm

So as some of you may have heard we had quite the surprise last Friday when our little girl Zoé was born! Alli ended up having to be induced on Thursday night because she had developed preeclampsia and at 1:49am Friday morning little Zoé blessed us by coming into the world.

We are beyond happy with her arrival. She is the sweetest most amazing thing to ever come out of us (the comic being second lol). So far we have been very fortunate in that she isn’t constantly screaming like Alli used to when she was a baby.

Luckily, it seems as though little Zoé has taken to Jim’s attitude when he was a baby – sleep. Little thing can sleep through Jim’s singing – now that takes talent. Born with a full head of hair, did we mention that? Kind of explains Alli’s major heartburn since day 3 of pregnancy (The first two were due to Pizza, we’re pretty sure).

With ears pointier than her father’s, Zoé will more than likely be going first when she takes on her father in a game of Smallworld.

Not everything is sunshine and roses, however. We had quite a good amount of terror after Zoé arrived. Being induced, Zoé wasn’t technically ready for the big wide world and she suffered, like most babies, from borderline jaundice.

We thought this normal – that is, until we had to revisit the hospital after being in there for 5 days due to it. We’ve been assured that she will be fine, but as new parents, we naturally were worried.

Hopefully, our little angel with tin foil wings will power on through this small hiccup and we can return to spoiling our baby with our attention and love (And daddy pulling at her toes to wake her up so she can be fed).

We would also like to thank the staff of the CSSS de Gatineau for their excellent service and professional application of knowledge. On top of this we would like to extend a very special thanks to Eve-anne Brousseau & Sylvie Clément for being such wonderful nurses during Alli’s labor.

- Jim & Alli

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by alli on January 20, 2013 at 9:48 pm

Hey everyone!

New incentive up to vote for OoME! Take a peek at what the future of OoME may hold =)

~Alli

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by jim on March 12, 2013 at 9:34 am

Hunh. Well, that certainly was interesting. With comicpress, generally when a new post or comment is made, you get a nice, easy to discern number right next to the new comment, post, or otherwise, indicating that something needs you attention.

This is not so with Feedback.

As we’ve found out by searching through the buttons this morning before going to the hospital, there is in fact a feedback section and people HAVE been using it. To those people, we apologize for not getting back to you, but thank you for your contribution. Most of you have received a personal reply from me, but I figure that it is only right for me to post it publicly that we made a ‘whoopsie’.

From here on out, Alli and I will be monitoring the feedback a little more religiously than before. This won’t be hard as we apparently had not checked it in almost a year.

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by jim on December 10, 2012 at 10:27 am

As some of you know, Alli and I went to the doctor’s on Friday for ultrasounds. It was possibly the most heart-warming thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. I can’t even imagine how any other parent to be must have felt the first time they saw their little one on that grainy white and black screen.

The technician was quite the professional and while she was trying to find certain things, like the arms, legs and gender, she continued to mention about how it would be more beneficial if the baby were to change its position, or raise it’s arm or move it’s leg a bit.

To our surprise, every request the technician made, our little girl followed. As an example: ‘If she would lie on her stomach, we could see if the spine was okay’ was uttered once, and in response, our little spawn obliged and rolled herself over in Alli’s tummy.

I must say, I was shocked. I would love to call coincidence on it, but the fact that this was not a single occurrence worries me. Has my baby been hearing me ranting over the last few months? She must think I’m crazy. Of course, that’s far better than the alternative – you know, psychic child syndrome.

Man… That would be crazy.

However, this page is here to inform you all that come May, there’s a good chance the chapter will be complete and another hiatus will start. This time due to having a small bundle of wibbly wobbily joy in our arms. Alli will do her best to get back on track, but we’re both going to be doing quite a bit of adjusting to life with a little one. So preemptively, I’m informing you, the audience, of the set backs that will occur.

Wish us luck!

Jim

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