For those of you still waiting anxiously for news on the baby front…
We had an appointment for a detailed ultrasound today, and baby A (the girl) weighed in at 3 lbs 10 oz, a marked improvement over the 2 lbs 7 oz two weeks ago. She’s still only in the 20th percentile of baby size, but she is growing and actually gaining slightly on her brother.
Baby B (the boy) weighed in at 4lbs 7 oz, up 1lb 1oz from the 3lb 6oz weigh-in two weeks ago. That puts him in the 52nd percentile, which is pretty good for a twin.
At this point, the medical folks say there is nothing we should be concerned with, and that girls are usually a little smaller than boys, and that since both are growing, we shouldn’t be worried either. Lisa just needs to keep doing what she has been doing. Eating and resting. He last day of work is Friday, so her life of leisure begins on Saturday. I then become her Sugar Daddy.
We’re 31 weeks into the whole pregnancy thing, and everything points to delivery sometime in February. My bet is still on Feb 15th. Lisa hasn’t picked a day yet. I think that’s cheating, but she keep’s saying it’s not a contest. Puhleaase!
The answer… not in the dark.
It got really windy here in the PNW last night and the power has been out since about midnight. Everyone is fine, but thousands of trees came down and power is out to most of Puget Sound. Work has power because we have generators running.
The weird thing is that the roads were empty this morning. I think it was because anyone who had to dry their hair this morning wasn’t on the roads!
Ok, it is country, but you HAVE to hear the song on this guy’s web site http://www.myspace.com/jasonmichaelcarrollThe song is called ‘Alyssa Lies’. if the hair doesn’t stand up on your arms, you are not human!
For those of you who live in Canada, have an inch or two of snow on the ground is now reason to shut down the city. But here in the PNW, as soon as the white stuff hits town, everyone goes nuts. We’ve got about and inch on the ground here, and near my work is 6-7 inches. The biggest problem is actually ice. The roads are covered in black ice, and compact snow and ice in other spots. Highway 512 was completely closed down overnight because of ice on the road, and near Bellingham, I-5 has been closed for a couple of days due to 4 to 5 FOOT drifts of snow.
Hopefully things will thaw out in the next day or so, and life can get back to normal.
My wife and I took a walk this morning, and I was thinking about those things that I grew up with that my kids will never know about, unless I go through the trouble of exposing them to it. Some things are better just forgotten about. Others, I think they might enjoy.
Things I won’t let them miss out on
The Hardy Boys Books (If anyone has a collection of these they want to part with, I’m buying)
The Three Investigators Books (See above)
Star Wars (The first 3)
Things I think they’ll probably miss out on
Happy Days
Gilligan’s Island
Battle of the Planets
Dukes of Hazzard
The Commodore 64
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
The Electric Company
Star Trek – TNG
The Wonderful World of Disney (Sunday’s at 6:00)
Wide World Of Sports
Straw forts in the barn
Things I think they can do without:
The Wango Tango & The Worm (If you don’t know what this is, you weren’t a boy in Grade School in the early 1980s)
8 Track tapes
Cassette Tapes
Records
5 1/4 Inch Floppy drives
The Love Boat
Mickey Mouse Disco
This article was circulating around work yesterday. It’s probably more interesting for me than others because of where I work. But for reasons which should be obvious after you read this, you’ll know why I’m not saying anything about my employer at this time.
Like my sister said, “See. This. Movie.” It was definitely the best Bond movie in the last 20 years. It was a little long, and a little predictable at times, but some of the best Bond dialog I’ve heard in a while.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve really cut my TV watching down. Most of that was due to the video game ‘World of Warcraft’ which I’ll tell you about at some point, but also because there just wasn’t much on. Lisa and I had a few favorite shows like “House”, “The West Wing” and “Grey’s Anatomy”, and I would watch “Lost”, but the last few years of reality TV really lost my attention.
Then came this year and the new show called “Heroes” on NBC on Monday night. It’s creative, it’s escapist. The bad guys are bad, but you don’t know who they all are. The good guys are good, but flawed. The story is broken up among many characters, so that the story has many parts to it. My favorite character is Hiro (yes, the irony), a guy from Japan who can teleport himself and alter the ‘Space-Time Continuum”.
The only danger I see in it it that the story could end up moving too slow. That’s what happened to Lost, and why Lisa doesn’t really watch it anymore.
If you do get a chance to check it out (from the beginning), it’s worth the time.
When I was in college, I wrote a novel I called “To Cage The Eagle”. I was really into reading Tom Clancy, Larry Bond and Harry Coyle at the time, and I thought, “I can write this stuff’. So I did.
I tried a couple of times to get it published, but the market for that genre fluctuates wildly, and no one wanted to take on a new author at that time. I did a full edit of the book back in 1997 when I was stuck at home for months with mononucleosis, but I still wasn’t able to find a buyer for it.
So I’m going to attach some of the chapters here, and add a few from time to time. If you want to read more, let me know. I’ve heard that more than one author has tried this from time to time and become successful. I’m getting back into writing these days, and I’m hoping that I can find a market, eventually.
The Chapters are on the Links section of this site.
Joe Beernink 