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cross number 5

this isn't exactly hot off the presses, but my boss jeffrey and his wife heather had their child this past saturday. this brings the cross clan offspring count up to 3: teddy, zachary, and the newest addition lexi, short for alexandria elizabeth briere cross (and plural for Lexus, according to jeffrey). they had the child at home and everything went smoothly. thankfully it was a weekend day so the house was not full of us employee types, which is probably best for everyone. charity took birth pictures, her first real photo assignment, which i unfortunately will probably never get (want) to see. oh well...

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from the linguistic-gymnastics department: (if you're interested in neither linguistics nor computers you may want to stop reading at this point... anyone other than jesse still reading?) this whole Lexus/lexi discussion reminds me of a little debate lang and i got into yesterday. he was creating an FAQ email to clients explaining how to keep viruses off their computers and networks. but he actually used the word virii as the plural for virus, going on the assumption that words with a us suffix are made plural with i or ii. now i know this rule holds true in some situations, but the word virii seemed a bit of a stretch so i went google-diving and came up with this.