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Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Finally!
It's been about three years of bi-weekly updates, but FINALLY they added auto-update to the Clan Lord client. About freakin' time. Now if they would just drop some more clues about the ^&$&$* mirror quest...
My oldest brother is getting married on Saturday in Spokane (5 hour drive away). I'm miffed that he scheduled it when we couldn't attend. If he'd waited a few weeks we'd have been able to. This brother at this time last year swore he'd never marry again. At least his new wife seems really cool, much nicer than his crack-whore ex-wife. (You think I jest? She worked her way from scamming prescription pain meds to full-blow crack whore, and is constantly in and out of treatment. Fortunately my brother got full custody of their son)
Argh!
Ok, we we went in to see the doctor today. No real change, so we talked further about induction. We don't particularly fancy letting this already-large baby grow for two more weeks, possibly necessitating a caesarian section. Anyway, our hospital apparently only has 3 slots a day for inductions, so our doctor calls and leaves a message, and we'll find out tomorrow if we get in. Talk about taking the conveinience out of induction. Oh well. Tuesday, May 29, 2001
No baby yet. I am doing fine with it, but I don't have a small human inside me kicking my ribs to remind me all the time. I can just go to work or play Clan Lord for an hour to forget all about it.
Bridget was desperate for something to distract her, so we went to see Pearl Harbor this weekend. We went to the Cinerama, which was a cool old 1950s movie theater here in Seattle with a balcony and huge screen. It was pretty run down a few years back, but then Paul Allen (billionaire, co-founder of Microsoft) bought it and refurbished it to the height of mid-50s glory. It's an awesome place to see movies now. I enjoyed the movie, but I'm a sucker for war movies. I always get teary-eyed thinking about the sacrifices so many have made so we can have what we have today. Saturday, May 26, 2001
Pod.
That's what we've been calling our baby all during the pregnancy. Bridget read somewhere about a pregnant lady calling herself a pod person, and we laughed and it stuck. Pod, or The Pod. We refer to her belly as her Pod as well, and let me tell you it's currently a big old giant-sized Pod indeed. My lil Podling. Family and friends call her Pod too, because we haven't told anybody the name we've picked. We get letters and cards addressed to us "and Pod", and we got christmas gifts addressed to Pod Lundquist. heh. We have these colored foam letters that came in a set, when wet they stick to the shower walls. They're baby toys, but I wanted to play with them too. It's hard to spell out too much with just 26 letters and 0-9. but you can get by. I'll write "LOVE MY B N POD" when I shower before work and she's not up, a little note for her. Sometmes I write "LUV BEER" :-) Yesterday I got in the shower, and written on the wall was "OUT POD". Friday, May 25, 2001
Still no baby. Not looking like it's this weekend, either. Not many serious contractions yet, but who knows. Each pregnancy is different.
Got off work at 3pm today, had my first beer already. Dos Equis amber. Darn tasty. Those germans who moved to Mexico and brewed beer knew what they were doing. Now my friends are trying to figure out where to hang out, BBQ, and drink tonight. Plus there is a Marinier's baseball game on soon, and they've been a hoot to watch this season, especially since they've shed mega-super-stars each of the last three seasons and are doing better for it.
Gaaaa! Blogger ate my large early-morning post. Joy.
T-minus 7 days until due date. Listened to Zeppelin-Heartbreaker, Soft Cell-Tainted Love, and AC/DC-Back In Black on bike ride in. Yesterday, after biking home, Bridget and I went for a walk to get her som exercise and to help stimulate labor. We drove five blocks north and walked around that neighborhood for a change of pace. We enjoy walking around neighborhoods amiring cool architechural details on houses and seeing what people do with their landscaping. It's funny to think how two years ago we used to walk through that exact neighborhood lamenting the fact that we couldn't afford a house we could live with that close to the university. We got extremely lucky with our current house, WAY closer than I'd imagined, and it even has a mother-in-law apartment in the daylight basement. Currently we have a really cool graduate student friend of Bridget's from the Peace Corps renting it out, but eventually my mother-in-law will be living in my mother-in-law apartment. People think I am crazy to be willing to do that, but it has a separate entrance, it's own kitchen/bathroom/etc, and she's a lot of fun, and more importantly she's non-judgemental. My favorite quote from her is "I screwed up my own life so bad, who am I to judge your decisions?" Well, it'll be at least a couple of years before she moves in. After our walk Bridget made yet another damn tasty dinner. She's a great cook. I had a bottle of Negra Modelo. Mmmmmm. We finished up watching the first season of The Sopranos from the DVD set I borrowed from a friend. It was good, but not good enough to subscribe to HBO. We'll just watch each seaon as it comes out on DVDVDVDVDVDVD. Bridget is mighty uncomfortable. She's huge, but it's funny, it's almost all baby. Her uterus isn't that round anymore, it's more baby-shaped, with funny lumps that move around as the baby shifts. From behind, if she's not walking, you can't tell she's pregnant. If she walks, it's a dead give-away, since she waddles. I think I'm having entirely too much fun with this. Clanned some last night with my second character. It's been over a year and nobody has figured it out yet. I guess I'm either not a bad role-player, or just good at keeping my pie-hole shut. Thursday, May 24, 2001
mmmmmm. Almost time to go home and drink some BEeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeerrr! I've got a fair load of tasty cervezas at home right now, left over from my Cinco De Mayo party. Some Coronas, Dos Equis, Pacifico, Tecate, and my favorite Mexi-Beer, Negra Modelo. Mmmmmm! Cerveza Mas Fina!
Ah, Clan Lord. With the new Valley, Humbaba wants more atkus. ~270ish doesn't go as far as it used to. He's been good, sticking with BEER and Evus. If I go on an atkus push, then I'll need more swengus to get my swings back to 3, and by the time I do all that, I may as well have stuck to Evus all along.
Wooo! Another thing I love about my Rio Volt: They keep coming out with newer firmware to add features to it. I just noticed that they came out with v2.00 now. Coooool. Few things are as good as new features in existing products!
A year and a half ago, Bridget and I moved to a house that's just two miles from work. I bike in almost every day, all year long. Biking in the rain sucks, but it's not like it's a long ride or anything. Recently I got a Rio Volt MP3 CD player. I burned ~120 songs to a CD, and named it K-ERIC. I've been greatly enjoying listening to music during my ride.
Lost $19 at poker last night. That sucked, but it was nice to get it going again, for various reasons poker had a 3 month hiatus.
BEEEER!!! Howdy! Welcome to my blog. I have to admit I hate the word Blog, I much prefer weblog or web diary.
The Babes that the title refers to are my wonderful wife Bridget, and my not-quite-yet-born daughter. BEER is just one of my other loves. Our due date is June 1st. I am so completely excited it's not even funny. |
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