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After only 5 hours of labour and no pain killers, baby Saffron has finally arrived (on February 1st, 2008).

Saffron has been home from the hospital now for 2 days, and after a long first night we are finally getting used to the new schedule.

Pictures are posted in the Baby gallery.

If you email me, you might be ask to respond to a confirmation message. This is very normal, and I will not receive your email until you actual do respond to this confirmation message. It seems that there has been a recent increase in the amount of spam making it through Google’s spam filers so I have re-enabled this feature, Box Trapper, on my inbox.

They should pass a law making it legal to mame anyone caught spamming; Removing all of their fingers might make it more difficult to spam people, if at the very least it just makes them rethink their actions.

Being the first time my wife and I have ever had to deal with -35 degree temperatures, we were not really sure how cold the VW TDI would go before it wouldn’t start any more. I went to work yesterday, and couldn’t get the car to start on the way home, leaving me to walk home, about 5km at -35 celsius (oh what joy).

It was sufficient a reason to join AMA, they towed my car back home, we pushed it into the garage overnight and two hours later it worked like a charm. What was VW thinking by not putting a block heater in their diesel vehicles? Usually it is around -20c when it starts to get difficult.

After a $300.00 day, at least we have an AMA/CAA membership now, and I purchased a special coolant tank heater which heats the coolant and circulates the coolant throughout the motor, which is just as effective as a block heater on those cold days. While I won`t have my new heater to install for probably another 2-3 weeks at least I will be ready for next year. Apparently though these tank heater (purchasable through www.frostheater.com) are highly effective and recommended by many people from the TDI Forums; I`ll post once I have tested it out for myself.

As for tomorrow, I`ll have to take the bus.