Author: papa

“i told you so” just doesn’t sound strong enough…

Microsoft Internet Explorer is about to ruin your day. Read the story for more info:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm

Done reading?

Now, do yourself a favor and grab one of these:

the spark of life

I’m not a religious person. I’m not a full blown God-hating atheist, I’m more of an agnostic with atheistic tendencies. Or rather…  I’m a scientist, and due to the lack of any kind of scientific proof of God’s existence, I tend not to subscribe to any religious beliefs. But I digress. And how can I digress before I even started making my point…

Anywho…

There are several mysteries of the Universe that people often attribute to God, and based on your belief system, you may lean more one way or the other. Some of those beliefs are creation vs. evolution, the creation of the earth and the heavens (I’m talking of outer space, not the other kind of Heaven), what happened before the big bang, and where did life come from…

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things nobody tells you when you have a baby, but should

here are a few things I’ve discovered because of my little one, that I didn’t understand before. some of them probably make sense, and some of them you’ve probably heard before, but you don’t really understand them until you have a baby yourself.

  1. giving birth is traumatic for everybody (especially the father, and orders of magnitude more so if it’s your first one (or so it seems))
  2. always put a clean diaper underneath the dirty one BEFORE you open it
  3. immobile babies are WAAAAY better easier than mobile ones
  4. teething sucks
  5. shot day sucks
  6. constipation sucks
  7. vacuums suck, and are a necessity (sorry, had to do it =) )
  8. nothing smells worse than day old formula… except for maybe day old diapers.
  9. there is no mute button Continue reading “things nobody tells you when you have a baby, but should”

teething

so the little one is super ornery tonight, and was screaming bloody murder while I got her undressed for the evening ritual (bottle, bath, book, bed).  I was planning on skipping the first three and putting her straight in her jammies, and getting her to sleep as soon as possible, but chels said that I should give her a bath, that it might soothe her. it made a little bit of sense, so I told chelsea to start a bath, and finished undressing skye. I put her in the bath, and she was calm for only a moment before she started screaming again.

I don’t know what made me do it, but I looked in her mouth at her bottom gums, and noticed something that was different from all of the other times I checked when chelsea cried “teething”…  there was a discoloration, in a straight line, in the middle of her gums, about where one of her bottom teeth would be, if she had any. It was sunk in a bit, and kinda grayish, like there was a tooth just below the surface.

Holy crap…  she’s teething.

despite what I’ve said before about how I don’t want her to get teeth because it will change how she looks and she won’t be the same…  I’m kinda excited that she is teething getting teeth (not so much excited for the teething part of it).

I don’t know why, but when I saw that, I immediately saw her in a different light, she is no longer a baby, she is a little girl.

I just wish it didn’t have to happen on my watch…

How I met my wife, part 5 — meeting my love

Recap: got in trouble, community service at Hansen Planetarium.

So I finished the portion of my community service that I could do at the planetarium (there was a rule that said you couldn’t do them all in one place, or something like that), and had a few hours left, so I helped out the Forest Service. A few months later, after I was done with that, I went back to the planetarium, and asked my boss there if I could have a job, and they agreed and hired me on the spot. So I was working at the planetarium, hanging out, and met a girl.

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How I met my wife, part 4 — trouble

Recap: I had just found raves.

So, not long after my first rave (and I had been going to every single one every weekend since), around spring of ’95, I was at Confetti’s (which was open every Friday and Saturday nights, but Saturday nights were the raves, so we usually went to the club on Friday, discussed the logistics of the rave the next night, and then would pre-party at Confetti’s on Saturday until the rave started at midnight, which would make a large portion of the people at Confetti’s disappear, but back to the story…), and had met a couple of new people there, named Ben and Andy. They were both cousins, and we were talking, and hanging out, then I left for the rave as I usually did around midnight. Funny thing… I saw them at the rave, which made them even more likable. We began to hang out, and became very good friends, and they introduced me to several more people, namely Josh, and Angie.

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bathtime

Now that I have a YouTube account, and can post videos, I’m posting this one. It’s old, but I still love it.

Chalk this one up to being new parents, and not really knowing how to do it.

It’s still cute though.

She was 6 days old in this video, and we made tons of newbie parent mistakes, but I gush every time I see it.