Monthly Archive for November, 2006
We have been back for 32 hours now and everything is rolling along much better than expected. Sam is doing really well and, most importantly, Christina is doing great.
Rotisserie Baby
Well, we have a yellow Bucket (see clarification in previous post). Sam still has a little jaundice. Apparently this is a preemie thing. The bilirubin peaks a little late in the tiny ones. So what we are doing, besides stuffing his pee sized belly is to do what the Doc called Rotisserie Baby. We bake him in a closed window for a few minutes on each side. Some how the sun breaks down the yellow stuff and he dumps out in his tar poopies a little quicker.
Speaking of Poopies
We cheered a poop today. Actually the color of the poop. At our first visit with the doc, in regards to the above issue, the three of us raised our arms in a triumph and exclaimed “Woo, Hoo”. This at the news of yellow poop. Apparently, this is a milestone. One might think that with my affinity for the subject, this would be joy. But damn, if this doesn’t get serious. Besides the smell takes all the fun out of it. I did ask Christina if she wanted to save it for the scrapbook. She said no.
Sleep
Sam sleeps. And sleeps. And sleeps. Sounds like joy. But makes trying to keep the little guy awake to finish eating a two-man chore. While making for a little work now this will be a great asset later. Don’t think I am complaining. Just seems that our luck that the bum will decide to wake just when we begin to take advantage of the trait.
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny
Being four weeks early makes for a small baby. Not much fits. We were a little cavalier. Most advice given was to ditch the small stuff. We had a lot working for this. Christina’s family had bigguns. Diabetics have bigguns. We expected a biggun. Well no. We have a peanut. Cute. But damn he is small. We could tie the arms in knots with room to spare. Day 3 and we have already utter the great parenting phrase, “you’re going to grow into it”.
I haven’t dropped him despite my fears otherwise and I am better at diaper changes than Christina expected. So far FunkeeMunkeeLAnd rest in fair peaceful calm and has handled its expansion with grace.
Well, I will tell you of the shotgun poopies and the four-diaper rapid-fire change at a later date.
The latest edition to FunkeeMunkeeLand. He is a 5 lb 14 oz baby boy. 20 inches long and coming in at 2:32 am on November 25th. Click the picture for more. I will be sure to post more later this week.
Tim and Christina
Update
Correct that to 18 inches. He didn’t shrink, just the measuring stick was a little off. 18 is official from his first doctor’s visit.
Clarification for some inside jokes
Bucket: this is from the earliest discussions of names between Christina and I. I suggested it as a “power” name. The theory was that such a weird name would immediately throw the groove off anyone that it would allow you to totally dominate. Example, boardroom, a confident looking executive in a high priced suit walks into a standard good ole boy situation. They ask his name, he replies “Bucket.” Laughs ensue. He says “No, really Bucket. No lets discuss…” This would be a defacto power move to disrupt the dark side of the force and allow him to use his Jedi skills to destroy. At least that was the theory.
Baby It: given in the early days. Obvious because of a lack of sex but related more to the phrase: “It’s all mush on the inside.” Said by the tech doing the ultrasound. This was as she was mashing the soon to be Bucket/ Samuel around for a better view.
We are in the hospital right now, 6:00 pm, waiting for Bucket to get it going. Water busted this morning, ruining the best shopping day of the year. He better be worth it, we had a crap load of coupons and bad ass deals.
None the less. We are waiting and will post the picks when he comes.
Just check out this site and it sums up the sentiment for the Microsoft iPod killer.
John C. Dvorak, an Apple critic even has bad things to say. I listened to Laporte talk about it on the TWIT podcast. Some lawyer had his head up his ass on this one.
The thing is, as an Apple freak, I must admit it looks pretty neat. The UI is seems nifty and entertaining. In all fairness MS is trying to do what the iPod took 6 or 7 gens to get going. But the break in DRM and lack of anything but future intergration with other nifty items is a downer.
Nobody believed me but really, a man was arrested, naked, in a tree, with an ice pick in his asshole
I have proof by God! Here is the story.
In essence a man was arrested for jerking off in a tree (actually a tree stump, but it is funnier in a tree) while butt ass naked. When asked if he had any concealed weapons, he replied “Why, yes office. Matter of fact I have an ice pick shoved up my ass.” Those were my words but the tapes have yet to be released. So the prudent occifers pulled their Gats and called the fire department. The brave men and women of the FD wielded their jaws of life and pulled out the 6 inch awl. (Again more exageration but I do believe that in stories such as this poetic license is a given)
I have a few questions:
- What was the plan for the ice pick, it makes a mugging a little less impromptu when you must retrieve out of your ass
- What made officer ask a naked man if he had a concealed weapon, was it prior experience or a really good imagination
- How fast can aman run with ice pick in his ass
- Which makes a man’s crazy stock rise, standing on atree stump naked and masturbating or thinking that sticking an ice pick uo your ass is a good idea
a cross post from orlandopumpers.com
More than 3.5 million deaths per year are caused by diabetes — equal to the amount of deaths caused by HIV/AIDS — however the United Nations has yet to recognize World Diabetes Day.
You can help by checking out World Diabetes Day. The goal is to bring an international focus on diabetes. It loses to high profile diseases because it comes about in many ways. There isn’t one phantom to chase down. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are among the top childhood diseases. It hits the economically disadvantaged, indigenous peoples and the elderly disporportionally. Access to care is result of language, money and location. The other thing is help in this doesn’t stop with Diabetes. Many of these same victims and problems happen across the board with many other diseases.
A few other things:
I have been using the Askimet spam filter for comments. As I have not locked out non registrered comments on this site, it keeps easy for the family folk, I get a crazy amount of junk comment spam. I look over them just in case, but Askimet has yet to be wrong.
I did get one though that got me good. This one had brilliant, ironic accuracy. The prose was the usual generic crap that tries, not very hard, to lull you into thinking that the bot really read the post and agreed. They get you with the links up top that keep their sludge moving through out the inter web.
Here it is:
What makes it better was the post it stuck it to, Internet Tubes now Social Ban. Well I guess the bot really was trying to clog some tubes some how. I love how he works in the same industry and then links to gay porn. Do I give off that impression. Dude, if that is the case I need to work on things a little.
At any rate, the bathroom can attest, my tubes ain’t clogged.
Walk for Diabetes in Orlando raised over $330K by walking. Slow as it may be, effective it is. Any rate, our little support group did our part with a grand total of $3471. Cha Ching! I must admit I wasn’t able to walk. I have managed to miss it for, well forever. Never made it. I am a bum. Next year I will walk. I did make my goal though (by myself). Any rate, way to go to the top dogs though that blew it away.
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